Below are listed some of the more popular biographies and autobiographies of women published in 2011 (or republished in paperback that year). These are arranged by the subject of the biography. Which ones have you read?
Jane Addams
Jane Addams and Her Vision for America -
Sandra Opdycke
Mary Boleyn
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings -
Alison Weir
Eva Braun
Eva Braun: Life with Hitler -
Heike B. Gortemaker (Damion Searls, translator)
Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman -
Robert K. Massie
Cleopatra
Cleopatra: A Life -
Stacy Schiff
Joan Didion
Blue Nights -
Joan Didion
Jaycee Dugard
A Stolen Life: A Memoir -
Jaycee Dugard
Tina Fey
Bossypants -
Tina Fey
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman -
Patricia Bosworth
Leymah Gbowee
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War -
Leymah Gbowee and Carol Mithers
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope -
Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly, Jeffrey Zaslow
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life -
Vivian Gornick
Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother -
Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin, Michael Jones
Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark -
Brian Kellow
Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks -
Rebecca Skloot
Gypsy Rose Lee
Lady of Burlesque: The Career of Gypsy Rose Lee -
Robert Strom
Mary I
Mary I: England's Catholic Queen -
John Edwards
Georgia O'Keeffe
How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living -
Karen Karbo
Ayn Rand
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
Jennifer Burns
Condoleezza Rice
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family -
Condoleezza Rice
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington -
Condoleezza Rice
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion -
Jean H. Baker
Margaret Thatcher
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister (abridged) -
John Campbell, David Freeman
