Celebrity autobiography san francisco 2015
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The celebrity memoir boom is here to stay: From Britney Spears to Prince Harry, Ina Garten to Cher, it seems like just about everyone is spilling their secrets via book deal.
At their best, celebrity memoirs provide unusually candid portraits of the “real person” behind the public persona—and they don’t skimp on the dirty details. (At worst, they can be ghostwritten fluff.) A recent crop has erred on the side of revelatory: In the last year, Al Pacino let us in on his life from childhood in the South Bronx to his big break in ’70s Hollywood, while the long-gestating memoirs of Lisa Marie Presley came through as a posthumous release, written with daughter Riley Keough. Whether offering vibrant vignettes of iconic periods in time or shining a light on grief, explosive relationships, and the sinister underbelly of showbusiness, these books (and others) have given fans plenty to talk about—to say nothing of making rather good gifts.
Ahead, Vogue rounds up the best of the genre for your reading pleasure.
The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop (2024)
Kelly Bishop—a.k.a. Emily Gilmore—narrates 60 decades, reaching back long before Amy Sherman Palladino’s generationally beloved Gilmore Girls. We meet Bishop as a young ballet dancer and a Broadway mainstay, following her th
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2015 San Francisco & Northern California
Inside "DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: San Francisco and Northern California," you'll find DK's famous cutaway illustrations of major architectural and historic sights, museum floor plans, and 3-D aerial views of key districts to explore on foot, along with in-depth coverage of the city's history and culture. A free pull-out city map is marked with sights from the guidebook and includes a street index, a metro map, and a chart showing the walking distances between major sights.
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Big Alma: San Francisco's Alma Spreckels
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