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A Stolen Life: A Memoir is a true crime memoir by American kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard. The memoir tells the story of the 18 years she spent in captivity in an unincorporated area in Contra Costa County, California. The memoir dissects what she did to survive, and cope mentally with her extreme abuse. The memoir when reviewed in 2011, garnered consistent reviews such as “powerful”, and “chilling” from a number of different media outlets.The book reached number 1 on Amazon's sales rankings a day before release and topped The New York Times Best Seller list hardcover nonfiction for six weeks after release.

A Stolen Life was published on July 12, 2011, by Simon & Schuster.

In 1991, Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped by means of a stun gun near South Lake Tahoe, California, while she was walking from home to the school bus stop. While in captivity, she endured constant sexual abuse from Phillip Garrido, one of her two captors. Despite sustained investigation, Dugard was not found until eighteen years after the abduction. A Stolen Life is the story of Dugard's 18-year ordeal and was written as part of her therapy with Rebecca Bailey, who specializes in post-trauma family reunification.