10 Interesting Fact About Famous memoir writers

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• Maya Angelou, a famous memoir writer, has actually been a professional dancer and singer in the Harlem Renaissance era.
• Michelle Obama, a former First Lady of the United States, revealed that in her memoir that she had experienced a miscarriage before having children.
• Trevor NOAH, comedians and authors of Born A Crime memoirs, grew up in South Africa during the apartheid period.
• Malala Yousafzai, an education activist and authors of Memoar I Am Malala, was once the target of shooting by the Taliban when he was 15 years old.
• Jeanette Walls, the author of the Glass Castle memoir, grows up with parents who often move and live in poverty.
• Tara Westover, the authors of Memoar Educated, raised by families who reject schools and modern medicine.
• David Semaris, Humor and memoir writer, had worked as an apartment cleaner before becoming a full time writer.
• Roxane Gay, the writer of Hunger Memoar, is a literary professor and was once an editor of the Gay Magazine magazine.
• Andre Agassi, a former professional tennis player and an Open memoir, revealed in his book that he used wigs for several major tennis tournaments.
• Patti Smith, singer and writer memoir Just Kids, was once a close friend with famous artist Andy Warhol.