Memoirs by Journalists

2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa tells the story of her international journalist career in this memoir, advocating for freedom of the press and accuracy of information in the face of numerous convictions and arrests by the Philippine government.

Daisy Hernández, a creative writing professor and former New York Times reporter, blends family memoir, scientific inquiry, and journalistic exposé in this poignant study of Chagas disease and its effects on members of her family.

Caught between her life as a gay woman and the love and life debt she owes her mother, journalist Putsata Reang attempts to make sense of her identity and her family’s immigration from Cambodia to Corvallis, Oregon in this heartfelt memoir.

After her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, 14-year-old Kat, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. Years later, as an investigative reporter, Kat weaves together a story of the fallout of grief that follows her family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.

Dawn Turner delivers a portrait of life in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, interweaving her own career as a journalist with the stories of her best friend and younger sister, who struggle with issues such as drug use, incarceration, and teen pregnancy.

A memoir centering around a yellow shotgun house and the family that lived in it, purchased by Sarah’s mother Ivory Mae in a then-promising New Orleans neighborhood in 1961 at the height the Space Age, and the struggle against the house’s entropy as the neighborhood became neglected.