List of autobiographies by First Ladies of the United States
The First Lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House. The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the President of the United States, with some historic exceptions.
Helen Taft was the first First Lady to get her memoir published during her lifetime. Every memoir by a First Lady published in the 20th and 21st centuries has been a best seller, at times outselling those of their presidential husbands.[1]
- Note: Only publication information for the first edition is given.
| Title | First Lady | Publisher | Date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant | Julia Grant | Putnam Publishing Group | 1975 | 9780399113864 |
| Grant tried but was unable to secure a publisher for her memoirs during her lifetime. | ||||
| Recollections of Full Years | Helen Taft | Dodd, Mead & Company | 1914 | |
| My Memoir | Edith Wilson | Bobbs-Merrill Company | 1939 | |
| This is My Story | Eleanor Roosevelt | Harper & Brothers | 1937 | |
| This I Remember | Eleanor Roosevelt | Harper & Brothers | 1949 | |
| On My Own | Eleanor Roosevelt | Harper & Brothers | 1958 | |
| The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt | Eleanor Roosevelt | Harper & Brothers | 1961 | |
| Compiled material from her first three autobiographies with additional chapters. | ||||
| A White House Diary | Lady Bird Johnson | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | 1970 | |
| The Times of My Life | Betty Ford | Harper & Row | 1978 | 978-0-06-011298-1 |
| Written with Chris Chase. | ||||
| Betty — A Glad Awakening | Betty Ford | Doubleday | 1987 | 978-0-385-23502-0 |
| Written with Chris Chase. | ||||
| First Lady from Plains | Rosalynn Carter | Houghton Mifflin | 1984 | 9780395352946 |
| Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life | Rosalynn Carter | Random House | 1987 | 9780394558585 |
| Written with husband Jimmy Carter. | ||||
| Nancy: The Autobiography of America's First Lady | Nancy Reagan | HarperCollins | 1980 | 978-0-688-03533-4 |
| Written with Bill Libby. | ||||
| My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan | Nancy Reagan | Random House | 1989 | 0-394-56368-9 |
| Written with William Novak. | ||||
| Barbara Bush: A Memoir | Barbara Bush | Scribner | 1994 | 978-0-02-519635-3 |
| Reflections: Life After the White House | Barbara Bush | Scribner | 2004 | 978-0743255820 |
| Living History | Hillary Clinton | Simon & Schuster | 2003 | 978-0-7432-2224-2 |
| Hard Choices | Hillary Clinton | Simon & Schuster | 2014 | 978-1-4767-5144-3 |
| What Happened | Hillary Clinton | Simon & Schuster | 2017 | 978-1501175565 |
| Spoken from the Heart | Laura Bush | Scribner | 2010 | 9781439155202 |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama | Crown Publishing Group | 2018 | 9781524763138 |
Notes
- Fehrman, Craig (May 21, 2010), "First Lady Lit", The New York Times, retrieved March 30, 2015.
Further reading
- Wertheimer, Molly Meijer, ed. (2004), Inventing a Voice: The Rhetoric of American First Ladies of the Twentieth Century, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 9780742529717.
See also
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