What is the name of the author of the memoir titled 'A Promised Land'?

A memoir is a first-person nonfiction account in which a public figure recounts their own life experiences. To identify a memoir's author, match the exact title to its publisher and copyright record, since memoirs are written, credited, and marketed under the name of the single person who lived those experiences.

'A Promised Land,' published in November 2020, is the first volume of Barack Obama's post-presidency memoir. It covers his early political career through the 2011 operation that killed Osama bin Laden, and its publisher credits Barack Obama as the sole author.

• Michelle Obama is the author of her own memoir, 'Becoming' (2018) — a different book from the one named in the question.

• George W. Bush is the author of his own memoir, 'Decision Points' (2010) — a different book from the one named in the question.

• John F. Kennedy is associated with 'Profiles in Courage,' published decades earlier, and did not live to write a presidential memoir of his own.