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This Research Guide was created to help students in Prof. Tennenhouse's class choose books.

This Research Guide was created to help you find books for your Reading List. Choose any memoir from this list OR choose a memoir of a favorite artist of your own.

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Art

Basquiat: A Graphic Novel by Paolo Parisi (Illustrator)
Call Number: New Books; N6537.B233 P3713 2019

Publication Date: 2019
Jean-Michel Basquiat: and the art of storytelling by Eleanor Nairne
Call Number: N 6537 .B233 J43 2020

Publication Date: 2020
Lessons in Gratitude by Aaron P. Dworkin
Call Number: Available Online

Publication Date: 2024
On Photography by Susan Sontag
Call Number: TR183 .S65 2001

Publication Date: 2001
Road to Seeing by Dan Winters
Call Number: Available Online

Publication Date: 2013

Dance

Alvin Ailey
Call Number: GV 1785.A38 D85 1998

Publication Date: 1998
Baryshnikov in Color
Call Number: OVERSIZE Collection: GV1785 .B348 A35

Publication Date: 1980
Life in Motion by Misty Copeland
Call Number: GV1785.C635 C66 2014

Publication Date: 2014

Writing

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Call Number: PS3561.I483 Z475 2000

Publication Date: 2000
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Call Number: PE64.N34 A3 2004

Publication Date: 2003

Music

Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond; Adam Horovitz
Call Number: ML421.B39 M53 2018

Publication Date: 2018
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Call Number: ML420.S77 A3 2016

Publication Date: 2016
Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
Call Number: ML 419.C58 A3 2007

Publication Date: 2008
Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer by Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara
Call Number: Available Online

Publication Date: 2018
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Call Number: Various

Publication Date: 2023
Father of the Blues by W. C. Handy
Call Number: ML410.H18 A3 1991

Publication Date: 1991
I, Me, Mine by George Harrison
Call Number: ML 420.H167 A3 2007

Publication Date: 2007
Lennon on Lennon by John Lennon
Call Number: ML420.L38 A5 2017

Publication Date: 2017
My Love Story by Tina Turner
Call Number: ML420.T95 A3 2018

Publication Date: 2019
Pete Seeger in His Own Words by Rob Rosenthal; Pete Seeger; Sam Rosenthal
Call Number: ML420.S445 A3 2012

Publication Date: 2012
Stand up Straight and Sing! by Jessye Norman
Call Number: ML420.N736 A3 2014

Publication Date: 2015
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
Call Number: MT67 .D95 2022

Publication Date: 2022
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
Call Number: ML420.G864 A3 2021

Publication Date: 2021
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Call Number: ML420.S714 A3 2023

Publication Date: 2023
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Call Number: New Books; ML420.S672 A3 2010b

Publication Date: 2010
Mo' Meta Blues by Questlove
Call Number: New Books; ML420.Q45 A3 2013

ISBN: 9781455501373

Publication Date: 2015

TV and Movies

Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wheaton
Call Number: Available Online

Publication Date: 2003
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Call Number: PN 2287 .D3225 A3 2022

Publication Date: 2022
Foxy: My Life in Three Acts by Pam Grier; Andrea Cagan (As told to)
Call Number: Available Online

Publication Date: 2010
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Call Number: Recreational Reading PN 2287.M54545 A3 2020

Publication Date: 2020
I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy
Call Number: PN 2287.N55 A3 1995

Publication Date: 1995
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Call Number: PN 2287 .M33 A3 2022

Publication Date: 2022
Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
Call Number: PN2287.T97 A3 2021

Publication Date: 2021
My Own Directions by Sheldon Epps
Call Number: PN 2287 .E675 A3 2022

Publication Date: 2022
Naturally Tan by Tan France
Call Number: Recreational Reading PN2287.F655 A3 2019

Publication Date: 2019
Scenes from My Life by Michael K. Williams
Call Number: PN 2287 .W47285 A3 2022

Publication Date: 2022
Some of Me by Isabella Rossellini
Call Number: PN2287.R7584 A3 1997

Publication Date: 1997-06-02
Step Off! by Dan Cortese
Call Number: Available Online

Publication Date: 2020
The Boys by Ron Howard; Clint Howard
Call Number: PN1998.2 .H69 2022

ISBN: 9780063065253

Publication Date: 2022
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
Call Number: PN 2287.P57 A3 2000

Publication Date: 2007
Will by Will Smith; Mark Manson (As told to)
Call Number: Recreational Reading PN2287.S612 A3 2021

Publication Date: 2021
Yearbook by Seth Rogen
Call Number: Recreational Reading PN2308.R64 A3 2021

ISBN: 1984825429

Publication Date: 2021
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Call Number: PN 2287 .N557 A3 2016

Publication Date: 2016
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Call Number: New Books; PN2287.M522 A3 2007

ISBN: 1416553657

Publication Date: 2008
Viewfinder by Jon M. Chu
Call Number: New Books; PN1998.3.C6563 A3 2024

ISBN: 0593448944

Publication Date: 2024

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