Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, writer, & co-founder of the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre.
Carlo Levi
Italian painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, & doctor best known for his book Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1945).
Rochefoucauld
French author of Maxims and Memoirs born in 1613.
Chateaubriand
French writer, politician, diplomat, historian, & founder of Romanticism in French literature.
Jim Carroll
American writer & punk musician born in 1949. Best known for his memoir, The Basketball Diaries.
Jules Renard
French author born in 1864 & best known for his work Poil de carotte and Les Histoires Naturelles.
Maria Von Trapp
Austrian-Hungarian matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers whose autobiography inspired The Sound of Music.
Gianna Manzini
Italian writer born in 1896. Known for Ritratto in piedi , a semi-autobiographical portrait of her anarchist father.