Nujood's memoir spent five weeks as the No. 1 best-seller in France.
Ms. Mantel, who has written 10 novels, a collection of short stories and a memoir, spent five years writing "Wolf Hall" and is already working on a sequel.
Appearances by Lady Bird on radio and television (including "The David Frost Show") and a book tour soon followed, and the memoir spent 13 weeks on The Times's best-seller list.
Antonia Crane is the author of the memoir, "Spent" (Barnacle Books, Rare Bird Lit).
He buried himself in piles of old newspapers, records of legislative debates, gazetteers and memoirs, spent weeks in a village in rural Uttar Pradesh and with leather workers in Agra, and talked to "musicians, judges, owners of parrots".
It is based on reporter Dave Lipsky's memoir of spending five days with Wallace during the Infinite Jest publicity tour, 12 years before Wallace's suicide.
Santiago Pozo, the owner of a Hollywood marketing firm who is working on an adaptation of "The Valkyries," Coe-lho's memoir of spending forty days in the Mojave Desert, and who describes himself as a "recovering Catholic," says, "The beauty of his writing is his ability to talk to Catholics and Christians but also open the door to a new understanding of divinity".
Next up is Weeds creator's Jenji Kohan series "Orange Is The New Black," which is based on Piper Kerman's memoir of spending a year in minimum-security prison.
But after reading her memoir, and spending months of research at the British Library and in Paris archives, he realized he wasn't ready for it.
After the memoir Mr. Thomas spent much of the rest of his life lecturing about it.
