Grace (2012)

Grace Coddington's memoir runs from a childhood in Wales and a modeling career interrupted by a disfiguring car accident to styling at British Vogue, a spell at Calvin Klein and decades at American Vogue under Anna Wintour. Her tone is blunt, which is the pleasure of it: she admits envy, says what she thinks of colleagues and illustrates the book with her own drawings. The best account here of what a fashion editor actually does all day.