Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and California gadabout, published his eagerly anticipated memoir, Spare, just a few months ago. It crushed bestseller charts. Plenty of juicy bits in those pages. Happily, many hundreds of equally provocative memoirs have entertained, shocked, and moved American readers over the years.
This has led inevitably to a robust memoir industry (featuring, as we’ll see (Most attention-grabbing title of the last year: by Jennette McCurdy.)