Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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One Girl's Voice: How Lucy Stone Helped Change the Law of the LandSuffragist and abolitionist Lucy Stone, a pioneer in the 19th century's two greatest movements for equality, finds her voice in this STEAM picture book for budding activists. Lucy Stone grew up in a world where men's voices rang out, but women swallowed their words....
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Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots (Includes Behind-The-Scenes Stories, Personal Photos, Delicious RNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLERThe best things in life are really not that fancy. This photo-driven book featuring all-things-Reba invites you to get back to the basics of life: fun, food, friends, and family. In her first book...
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No Time to Spare: Thinking about What MattersWinner of the Hugo Award for Best Related Book and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay"The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them. . . " -- Melissa...
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No Name in the StreetFrom one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century--an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations around racism. "It contains truth that cannot be denied." --The Atlantic Monthly In this stunningly personal document,...
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Nobody Ever Told Me AnythingAt 11 years old, Rachael Finley was left alone, squatting in a vacation rental in South Florida. What she wasn't told leads the story, and her reinvention from foster child to internet phenom is as wild as her résumé. In this provocative, deeply personal...
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Night: Memorial EditionA memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the...
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Narrative of the LifeAuthor: Frederick DouglassPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 09/17/2013Pages: 142Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.30dISBN: 9781492745860This title is not returnable
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My Own WordsThe New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion" (Harper's Bazaar). My Own...
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My Life as a WhoreMy Life as a Whore: The Biography of Madam Laura Evens (1871-1953). An extensively researched book about a well-known Colorado madam. Includes numerous historical photographs of Laura and her girls. By author Tracy Beach.Author: Tracy BeachPublisher: Johnson BooksPublished: 06/11/2015Pages: 246Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h...
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My Life in FranceNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Julia's story of her transformative years in France in her own words is "captivating ... her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page." (San Francisco Chronicle). Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her...
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My Father's House: An Ode to America's Longest-Serving Black CongressmanIn this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, the son of iconic African American Congressman John Conyers Jr. shines a spotlight on his father and his political legacy, and reveals how, as his son, he eventually learned to leverage his own voice in...
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My Family and Other AnimalsThe first book in Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, which was the inspiration for the Masterpiece PBS series The Durrells in Corfu.When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the...
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Mountains Beyond MountainsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author - "[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views."--USA Today "If any one person can be given credit...
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Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac MillerThe first biography of rapper Mac Miller, the Pittsburgh cult favorite-turned-rap superstar who touched the lives of millions before tragically passing away at the age of twenty-six "Most Dope works as a reminder of Mac's passion for hip-hop and his gifts as a MC....
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MilesUniversally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. Here, Miles speaks out about his extraordinary life. Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. He speaks frankly and openly about his...
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Mein Kampf: Official Nazi English TranslationThis is the Official Nazi English Translation of Mein Kampf. It was recently rediscovered after all copies were thought to have been destroyed. This is one of the rarest Mein Kampf editions ever made and it passed from hand to hand without the owners...
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Meet the Kellys: The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn ThorneGangsters. Lovers. Legends. Meet the Kellys--the bootlegging, bank-robbing, husband-wife duo known as "Machine Gun" Kelly and Kathyrn Thorne--who masterminded one of the most infamous kidnappings in American crime . . . How did a small-time, hip-pocket bootlegger become one of the most notorious gangsters...
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America#1 New York Times BestsellerNAACP Image Award WinnerFrom Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America's struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers's extraordinary activism after her husband's assassination in the driveway...
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Man's Search for Meaning: Young Adult Edition: Young Adult EditionA young adult edition of the best-selling classic about the Holocaust and finding meaning in suffering, with a photo insert, a glossary of terms, a chronology of Frankl's life, and supplementary letters and speeches Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is a classic...
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Malala's Magic PencilNobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood. Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them. As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a...
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