Natascha Kampusch, 37
Memoirist
1
Mary Seacole (1805-1881)
2
Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983)
3
Glennon Doyle, 49
4
Piper Kerman, 55
5
Jeannette Walls, 65
6
Linda Lee Cadwell, 80
7
Susanna Kaysen, 76
8
Adeline Yen Mah, 87
9
Lucy Mack Smith (1775-1856)
10
Robyn Crawford, 62
11
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1934-2024)
12
Ji-li Jiang, 71
13
Inge Auerbacher, 90
14
Molly Bloom, 47
15
Christina Crawford, 85
16
Christy Beam, 52
17
Amy Chua, 62
18
Susie King Taylor (1848-1912)
19
Sonora Webster Carver (1904-2003)
20
Maxine Hong Kingston, 84
21
Valerie Plame, 61
22
Janisse Ray, 63
23
Mary Fisher, 77
24
Male Memoirists
More Professions
Rae Earl, 53
25
Sue Thomas, 74
26
Anne Moody (1940-2015)
27
George Sand (1804-1876)
28
Anne Lister (1791-1840)
29
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua (1942-2004)
30
Caroline Fox (1819-1871)
31
Elly Gross (1929-2022)
32
Paula Fox (1923-2017)
33
Freya Stark (1893-1993)
34
Kristin Beck, 58
35
Alice Sebold, 61
36
Jennifer Ketcham, 42
37
Maria Rasputin (1898-1977)
38
Essie Mae Washington-Williams (1925-2013)
39
Isabella Beeton (1836-1865)
40
Johanna Reiss, 93
41
Elizabeth Kim, 47
42
Caroline Paul, 61
43
Margaret Murie (1902-2003)
44
Kellie Bullard-Kelley, 30
45
Margaret Forster (1938-2016)
46
Rosangelica Barroeta, 31
47
Anchee Min, 68
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