2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Maya Angelou's 1969 memoir of childhood in the American South — covering racism, sexual abuse, and self-discovery — the first widely published memoir by an African-American woman and the model for the modern American memoir dealing with race.
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's 1981 memoir of her unconventional childhood at Tomoe Gakuen school in WWII Japan — run by the progressive educator Sosaku Kobayashi — one of the best-selling Japanese books of all time (10M copies).