17 Heart-Wrenching Memoirs About Addiction

One of the most literary memoirs on this list, Bill Clegg's visceral Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man recounts the author's struggle with crack addiction — specifically the period of time when he abandoned his partner and his job as a literary agent to indulge a two-month crack binge. Shifting back and forth in time, the book acutely details Clegg's unglamorous highs and paranoid lows. — NE