Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Finally the Bride: Finding Love after Walking down Everyone Else's AisleFrom the woman who made a career out of being a professional bridesmaid comes a refreshingly honest, touching, and humorous memoir about finding love and finally the bride becoming herself. After helping hundreds of strangers navigate their walk down the aisle, Jen Glantz thought...
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Feh: A MemoirFrom the acclaimed author of Foreskin's Lament, a memoir of the author's attempt to escape the biblical story he'd been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family Shalom Auslander was raised like a veal in a...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary LifeThe definitive biography of American suffragist and women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from a preeminent historian of women's suffrage "The life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton still has much to teach us. The invented prisons of race, sex, and class are still with us,...
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EleanorThough she came from a wealthy and privileged family, Eleanor Roosevelt grew up in a cheerless household that left her lonely and shy. Years passed before Eleanor began to discover in herself the qualities of intelligence, compassion, and strength that made her a remarkable...
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Eight Septembers: A Woman on Wall Street From 9/11 to LehmanEight Septembers: a Woman on Wall Street From 9/11 to Lehman is a gripping memoir that captures the tumultuous landscape of Wall Street through the eyes of a woman who lived and breathed its intensity during some of its most challenging years. Set amidst...
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Dique DominicanDique Dominican is the powerful debut memoir from Ayendy Bonifacio, born "near a mango-steepled, river-scented town" in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn after migrating as a child. With lyrical precision and emotional honesty, Bonifacio reflects on the immigrant experience, identity, language, and...
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Delusions: Of Grandeur, of Romance, of ProgressIn this sharp and darkly funny new essay collection from the New York Times bestselling author, Cazzie David explores the irony and existential crises of leaving youth behind.With her thirtieth birthday fast approaching, Cazzie reflects on the delusions that laid waste to her twenties...
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Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a RevolutionFrom Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, an epic and enthralling account of six Syrians fighting for a better world, in the tradition of classic works by Philip Gourevitch and Katherine Boo. In 2011, in a northern Syrian city, a small group...
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Dare to Dream, Joe Shore: A MemoirBorn into a dysfunctional family in Oakville, Ontario, in the 1950s, Jo-Anne Shaw was forced to leave home at sixteen to escape her abusive father. A high-school dropout, she would go on to endure two abusive marriages and years of serious depression. When she...
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Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice ColtraneThe first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the groundwork for the new age, ambient, and electronic music that would follow. Alice Coltrane (1937-2007)...
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Compton Don't SurfThis is the story about an Orange County Surfer's entry into the law enforcement field and how he ultimately found himself policing America's worst gang infested murder capital.Brought up in an all-white suburbia neighborhood, surfing and hanging out at the beach was his existence....
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Come to the Edge: A Love StoryThe Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag - New York Times bestseller When Christina Haag was growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny...
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Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's NazisThe thrilling true story of one man who risked his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States, an "urgent and exciting look into the life of an FBI undercover agent" (Joseph D. Pistone, New York Times bestselling author) by...
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South, with a Foreword by Bryan StevensonWINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE"A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative Chasing Me to My Grave presents the late artist...
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Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks"The damndest mixing of true crime, memoir, and maybe (?) ghost story I've ever read. The original Harper's article gave me the shivers, and this deeper dive is going to have me looking over my shoulder on every hike. Unputdownable." -- Patton OswaltWith the...
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Catch Flights, Not FeelingsCatch Flights Not Feelings is part unapologetic memoir, part lifestyle manifesto-a jet-fueled journey through the highs, lows, and hangovers of Jeff Wulkan's adventurous life. Airline captain, serial entrepreneur, and former womanizer, Jeff pulls no punches as he shares jaw-dropping stories from 30,000 feet and...
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Béisbol Begins: How Nemesio Guilló Brought Baseball to CubaNemesio Guilló didn't travel from Cuba to the United States as an eleven-year-old boy just so he could find a new sport to introduce to his home country. But that's exactly what happened! Nemesio and his older brother came to Alabama in 1858 to...
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Buried, Not Broken: A Memoir of Survival, Sisterhood, and Starting OverA Powerful Memoir of Survival, Sisterhood, and HopeAfter losing everything she loved, Mia Godfrey faced a choice: stay buried in grief-or grow toward grace.In Buried, Not Broken: A Memoir of Survival, Sisterhood, and Starting Over, Mia shares her deeply personal journey through trauma, widowhood,...
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Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in TombstoneA True West Magazine Best Book and Best Author of the Year A colorful and groundbreaking account of the most storied friendship of the American West: the bond between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday: Legendary gunfighters and friends who...
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Blue Collar Infantrymen: Reflections on 35 Years of SoldieringOne Soldier's Journey through the Mud, the Mountains, and the Mission.Brigadier General Brian Reed, U.S. Army (Retired), spent thirty-five years discovering the profound honor of being a "9mm-toting, blue-collar Infantryman".Blue Collar Infantrymen is a candid, humorous, and gritty memoir that takes readers from the...
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