(written as PhD thesis 1986) Antony Sher – Year of the Mad King: the Lear diaries (March 15, UK) Sylvain Tesson – Un été avec Homère (April 26, France) Sander Verhaeg – Working from Within: The Nature and Development of Quine's Naturalism Tara Westover – Educated: A Memoir Michael Wolff – Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (January 9) Shoshana Zuboff – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Biography and memoirs Viv Albertine – To Throw Away Unopened (April/May, UK) Paul D. Gibson – The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee (April, UK) Tom Gregory – A Boy in the Water (August 30, UK) Lindsey Hilsum – In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin (November) Jean-Marie Le Pen – Mémoires: fils de la nation (March 1, France) Michelle Obama – Becoming (November 13) Bart Van Es – The Cut Out Girl: a story of War and Family, Lost and Found (August 2, UK) Clemantine Wamariya with Elizabeth Weil – The Girl Who Smiled Beads Raynor Winn – The Salt Path (March 22, UK) Benjamin Zephaniah – The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography (May 3, UK) Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article: January 1 – Jahn Otto Johansen, Norwegian non-fiction writer and 1982 Cappelen Prize recipient, 83 (born 1934) January 3 – Fred Bass, American bookseller and owner of the Strand Bookstore, 89 (born 1928) Valery Chalidze, Russian-born American publisher, 79 (born 1938) Philip Eden FRMetS, English weather historian, 66 (born 1951) Keorapetse Kgositsile, South African poet and National Poet Laureate, 79 (born 1938) Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Sri Lankan writer and 1998 Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner in the Best First Book category for Europe and South Asia, 94 (born 1923) January 4 – Aharon Appelfeld, Romanian-born Israeli writer, 85 (born 1932) January 5 – Muntazir Baba, Pakistani Pushto poet, 68 (born 1950) Rasa Chughtai, Indian-born Pakistani Urdu poet, 89 (born 1928) Donald D. Evans, Canadian philosopher with an interest in Dostoevsky and Camus, 90 (born 1927) Carlo Pedretti, Italian historian, 89 (born 1928) Marina Ripa di Meana, Italian best-selling autobiographer, 76 (born 1941) January 7 – Markku Into, Finnish poet and translator, 72 (born 1945) Bjørg Vik, Norwegian novelist, short story writer and playwright, co-founder of feminist magazine Sirene, 82 (born 1935) January 8 – J. F.