Biography & Memoir

Helen Macdonald’s story of adopting and raising one of nature’s most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Read more

"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. .. I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils emerges this unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham. Read more

Regan Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell the stories of four women, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy. This is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally. Read more

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice―and what it takes to find shelter. Read more

An ambitious feminist anthology chronicling Indigenous rebellions around the world compiled by Sonja Eismann. Read more

Pack Light follows Shilletha Curtis's journey changing the narrative of Hiking While Black—because the Great Outdoors belongs to everyone. Read more

By Marc Hamer. From the beloved author of How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust comes a highly original memoir of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of gardens. Read more

A breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five-year expedition in South America—by Andrea Wulf (Author), Lillian Melcher (Illustrator). Read more

The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world, and in the process created modern environmentalism. Read more

Tim Birkhead celebrates how Francis Willughby set a standard for the way birds and natural history should be studied. It t is a fascinating insight into a thrilling period of scientific history and a lively biography of a man who lived at its heart. Read more

Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family’s experience during the Troubles, this book by Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a braid of “two strands, one wondrous..., the other violent and unsettling, sustained by vividly descriptive prose”. Read more

An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and culture reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock. Read more

At once a deeply moving memoir and a fascinating elucidation of a rich indigenous cosmology, Walking the Ojibwe Path is an unforgettable journey. By Richard Wagamese. Read more

This collection features interviews, photographs, and recipes by James Beard Award–winning journalist and third-generation Alaskan Julia O'Malley. Read more

A true story by Laurel Braitman about the ways loss can transform us into the people we want to become. Read more

In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. Read more