Sarah Kim
With the publication of Prince Harry’s barn-burning new e-book, Spare, it’s time to take a deep dive into the fecund world of superstar memoirs. Whether or not they’re light-hearted collections of essays (Bossypants; Cinema Hypothesis), dishy tell-alls (You’ll By no means Eat Lunch In This City Once more; The Self-importance Honest Diaries), or searing intimate portraits (Open; Greenlights), these memoirs convey us nearer to well-known folks which can be seemingly a distinct breed.
The style’s magnificence lies in the way it brings celebrities right down to a human stage. And in lots of circumstances, like Debbie Harry in Face It, Alan Cumming in Baggage, or Carrie Fischer in The Princess Diarist, the authors don’t simply study themselves, however act as beneficiant and clever observers of their time and place in popular culture, in addition to the characters they’ve met alongside the best way. There’s loads of room for invention—depart it to Steve Martin to jot down a graphic memoir!—together with humor, revelation, and scandal.
Under, listed in no explicit order, are thirty of our all-time favorites. Cross the popcorn.
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