About the author
Michelle Obama is an American attorney and author who served as First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Her memoir follows the private work, family negotiations, and public scrutiny behind a life often reduced to its most visible office.
Michelle Obama grows up in a close family on Chicago's South Side, in an upstairs apartment filled with music, work, illness, and high expectations. School takes her to Princeton and Harvard Law, then back to Chicago, where a conventional legal career begins to feel narrower than the work she wants to do.
Where to start
Start with Becoming. Michelle Obama recounts the family, education, work, marriage, and public life that carried her from Chicago to the White House.
