Connie Chung’s favorite recent reads
Connie Chung’s new memoir, fittingly titled Connie: A Memoir, was just released and is the #1 Amazon Editors’ pick for the Best Biographies and Memoirs of September. We had a chance to ask the author what books she’s read lately, as well as what she read while writing her memoir—here is what she told us.
I never knew what I now know about J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye – his journey from Judaism to a mystical form of Hinduism, plus his obsession with young women. Steve, a writer and editor who is also my brother-in-law, started his book long after I embarked on my memoir and finished his way before me. Very envious. Loved his book. —Connie Chung
I had asked my husband to recommend the best memoir he had ever read. Graham was a lone woman as publisher of the Washington Post during the tumultuous days of the Pentagon papers and Watergate. Not unlike me, she endured loathsome behavior by men but, in her book, she never cried in her soup. I was rooting for her all the way. I endeavored to model my memoir in the same tone. —Connie Chung
My husband gave me this book because he desperately wants me to improve my posture. Unfortunately, so far, I am still slouching. —Connie Chung
I read to learn. It’s a daily goal. I’m still in the midst of reading it but already this story, about Ellen and William Craft, is teaching me not only about their lives but it’s an American history lesson. —Connie Chung
I reread (or picked up for the first time) memoirs and biographies of friends (as a refresher), or to see how they navigated the writing process:
Good Girls Revolt by Lynn Povich
Reporting Live by Lesley Stahl
Skywriting: A Life out of the Blue by Jane Pauley
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page
Oh My Mother! by Connie Wang
Hoda by Hoda Kotb
Sisters First by Jenna Bush Hager & Barbara Pierce Bush
Becoming by Michelle Obama
—Connie Chung
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