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Memory of Celebrity can be considered often aspleasure guilty bedAnd there is certainly salacious satisfaction is in Chomping down books filled with gossip, sex, drugs and scandal, dotted with names you will certainly recognize. But there are these examples of the form that stands above the vile pleasures: the life stories of famous people who have a lot more on their mind than an agreement and lucrative book maybe even way with words (or , at least one with a convincing ghostwriter). Here are 25 of the best memories of celebrities ever written.

It may seem strange rankMichelle Obama at the celebrity scale, but it's hard to argue that she's not the most famous first lady sinceJackie O. Parallel to his political achievements, she had a significant impact on culture, including pop penningone of the best-sellers memories ever published. Upset and broacingly intimate,Becoming Traces of Obama's evolution of a girl more and more on the south side of Chicago, a successful lawyer, the mother of Sasha and Malia, to the woman of a politician, to a political icon in his own right.

BeforeSheryl Sandberg taught women how skinny in, comedian-tour-TV MavenTina Fey told them to put theirBossyping And strut into a world built for men. Pass from your childhood to its improvance days of comedy in Chicago and through its success on small groupsSaturday Night Live andRock, Fey reflects on the perilous situation of women in comedy, museums on motherhood, and juicy dishes behind behind the scenes. Not surprisingly, she is funny tireless throughout.

acting legendKatharine Hepburn was 84 years old, 12 Oscar's nominations, and4 Oscars When she finally released her brief in 1991, but she was still fiery and fierce on the page as she was on the money screen. ANew York TimesNotebook of the year,Me is undeniably Hepburn, filled with frank memories over his time in the Hollywood machine, as well as revealing details on his long and secretsRelationship with the actorSpencer Tracy.

When he came to the exit of his first long-awaited memory, the legendary piano manElton John did not hesitate to wooding title or hepburn her will to reveal what was going on out of the spotlight through decades of mega celebrity. With self-grind humor and a confessional tone, John talks about his childhood earliest in the suburbs of London, the first days of his partnership withBernie Taupin, And its dazzling ascent to glory around the world. And it does not lesse on the details of sordides (sex, drug addiction and attempts of suicide) along the way.

It is rare that the biographies of the celebrities to go out with the critics, but given the poetry of his words (not mentioning it, uh, poetry), it is surprising that Proto-Punk RockerPatti Smith braces earned for his first brief, the winner of the 2010 editionNational Book Award. Smith's main concern isLong relation with the iconic photographerRobert Mapplethorpe, Who has increased and fell and changed over 20 years, as she has found her voice on the 1970s punk scene from New York.

BeforeNora Ephron was a successful novelist (Stomach pains), director (You've got mail), And screenwriter (Rom-com Classics Insomnia in Seattle andWhen Harry meets Sally), She was a journalist known for the commentary of the heartbreaking comedy and the bright eye of his tests inSquiremagazine. In this 2006 Slash-Slash collection, Ephron's main topic is itself: observations on aging, the arc of its career, and the culture of its beloved New York change. Although its structure is not that of traditional autobiography, it says you all you need to know about the woman who has written it.

Omnipresent in the target ads, the reality shows, a documentary, and even an episode ofSex and city,Isaac Mizrahi is the rare designer fashion as famous for his face like the label on her clothing line. His outsized personality is at the forefront in this salacious story of his unusual path to success, which began in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn (where he fit"As a gay chubby thumb") And took him in the corridors of Parsons design school on the runways of Paris and beyond.

We like it!Sally field I spent seven years perfecting its memory without the help of a ghost, and it shows; It is a deeply felt and deeply personal journey into his life and career. The field reveals a struggle throughout life with loneliness and insecurity, starting with a stained by terrible childhood sexual abuse by a family member. With an irresistible intimacy, it considers that it is not likely soon successful in a pair of sitcoms Kitschy, his tumultuousRelationship with the actorBurt Reynoldsand a career in Hollywood Storied, including one ofacceptance speech of the most iconic Oscars never delivered.

George Takei is undoubtedly best known for the USS workshopBusiness as the place of suluStar Trek But in the 1960s rather than follow his Asian American acting career barrier, this powerful new graphics memo focuses on his childhood, when he and his family were part of 120,000 Japanese Americans removed from their home andsent to internment camps duringThe Second World War. Grow in simple, powerful images, this account of life in a legalized racism period is eye opening and essential.

Like many a millennium star,Issa Rae Rose to fame YouTube views at once. Its web seriesGirl clumsy black, Which was created in 2011, has won legions of fans for his hilarious portrayal (and sometimes worthy "worthy" of the life of a young black woman in a post-Obama supposedly "post-racial". Sharing a title with this series, this memory in 2015 - which predates the Rae'sHBO series Unsafe-Explores similar terrain as she discusses what it was like growing up a strange girlhas not always felt "black enough."

Perhaps the most confessional book at the endCarrie Fisher ever written is not a memory at all - it would be his in 1987Roman à clef novel Postcards from the edge (Later in the movie starringMeryl Streep), aIn loosely fictifisé his struggles with addiction and the pressures of growing up the child of Hollywood Royalty. But 2008'sWant to drinkThe first of the three memories that PENIT star, is no slouch either, either: his trademark acerbic of acerbic, Fisher reflects on his scandalous drug use, her marriage toPaul Simonand its time to make a small film calledStars wars.

Julia Child Memory meals (manufactured and consumed) recounts the formative years of a woman who left a career at the US military intelligence to become one of the most famous chefs in the world. The child remembers his years in the famous culinary school Le Cordon Bleu in France, where she argued with the owner and failed his first final exam; his co-founding of an American cooking school built on French techniques; his writing of the legendary cookbookMaster the art of French cuisine; The development of his TV showJulia Child Kitchen; and more. Filled with sumptuous descriptions of fine food, this is not a book to read while hungry.

Welcomed into the homes of viewers each week as the star of many popular sitcoms,Michael J. Fox has become a comfortable presence in the lives of millions. Who has made the revelation in September 1998 that he had beendiagnosed with Parkinson's disease Seven years earlier, all the more shocking. While this is a memory of the fox life, not his disease -Back to the futureStar shares the required stories of its rise to fame - it is at its most powerful when it considers the way in which its diagnosis has changed it and, thanks to the support of its doctors and family, being a real objective in favor of the defense of the cure.

Before it and actorFred Armisen started to present the best of Pacific Northwest weird in the series of sketch comediesPortlandia, Carrie Brownstein Was a founding member of the group defining Riot Grrrl Grrrl Base-Kinney, but his reflective and unique memory, evoking an excess punk for reflected self-analysis. Brownstein considers how she grew up with a gawky music fan in a musician who defines the era despite herself, and the emotional Indie of Crefs of Indie Creefs took on his relations with his bandmates (including the 'Romantic interest of one's oneCorinistic) Back of scuba diving in the work that has created some of the best albums ever registered, the author finds a new understanding of his own life.

Eddie Huangnever waited for a celebrity life. He wanted to be a lawyer, but a dismissal during the 2008 financial crisis putting it on a winding career trajectory with stand-up comedy, substance abuse and fashion design before. Open his first restaurant, has become a star of the New York scene of food, and has rooted in the accommodation of his own TV shows for the Cooking Canal, Viceland and MTV. This most effective memory, which shares a name with the popular blog of the author and has been adapted later to television, tells the whole story impossible in Huang, irresistible voice: a story of an immigrant who has always been Felt always as an "other" in America, but whose history of Cinderella is the American dream incarnate.

The story ofKeith Richards is the story of the rolling stones and rocky music itself. From the cheap apartment in London where Richards,Mick Jagger, andBrian Jones discovered a shared love of pace and blues, and moving in the formation of the group and the success of the whirlwind during the British invasion and beyond,Life Brings sharpness and clarity to the expected beatings of a rocky memory - fame, excess, quarrels and triumphant meeting.

With heavy eyes and a smoky voice,Lauren Bacall was a wise star-beyond-year since the moment she appeared on the film at the age of 18 alongsideHumphrey Bogart in the classic sneakerHave. The relationship bogie / bacall-Both started a case On the whole of this 1944Howard Hawks film, married a year later and were together until his death in 1957 - is a cornerstone of his memory of 1980, the winner of this yearNational Book Award. In addition to a frank sum of his career in Hollywood and Broadway, it's a thoughtful reflection on Bacall's years with Bogart and the way his death has come to define his life and color subsequent relationships withFrank Sinatra andJason Robards.

From the outside,Margaret Cho's Career Arc was a comedian of Stptup aspirate: Serve his time in the micro trenches open, graduated with head head, in transition on television, landing his own Sitcom ABC. From within, however, the success felt like a self-betrayed betrayal to undergo a dangerous scheme of weight loss, remodeling both his body and his personality to a stereotypical view of an "Asian Asian woman" for an audience Traditional, Cho has had trouble depression and addiction. After years of recovery, the star has channeled the experience in the spectacle of a woman from 1999 from 1999I am the one I want, then expanded in this brief, who graphs an inspiring journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance.

One of the most convincing sports memories ever written, tennis legendAndré Agassi Open is notable for the bold admission of its author he has alwayshated sportIt makes him a superstar. AGASSI tells a childhood experienced at the same time: his father, a former boxer, pushed his son to succeed in sports with an implacable fervor, building a court in their garden and sending it to the school boarding tennis. The agassi molded constant pressure in a player without clothes, but let him have trouble dealing with the life of the court, and his story of this trip makes reading reading.

To callShawn "Jay-Z" Carter Reserve a memory of 2010 is to monitor both biographical merits and reduce its artistic achievements. Instead of his life, the book is built around his words, explained, increased and contextualized by anecdotes, memories, analyzes and ardors of autobiography. It's rewarding things like celebrity memories go.Decodedis less the story of the life of the artist that his attempt to do a deal for the poetic merit of rap music. As such, the final result is open to interpretation.