Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers EditionNew York Times Bestseller - Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor! A gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in...
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The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower, or John Howland's Good Fortune"This feast of a book . . . will captivate readers from its opening double-page spread. . . . Sweeping and grand, this personal take on a familiar story is an engaging success." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Leaving the docks of London on...
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Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American PilgrimageFirst published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray's Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award among other distinctions. Yet Murray's name and extraordinary influence receded from view in the intervening years;...
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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla2018 Reprint of 1919 Edition. Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a prophet of the electronic age. His research laid much of the groundwork for modern electrical and communication systems, and his impressive accomplishments include development of the alternating-current electrical system, radio, the Tesla coil transformer,...
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Destroyer Captain: The Life of Ernest E. EvansFrom James D. Hornfischer, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers, a riveting account of the life of WWII hero Commander Ernest E. Evans and his heroics and sacrifice during the Leyte Gulf Battle of Samar. For...
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A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful DeadThe complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist--a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s' counterculture. From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead...
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Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen--An Authorized Biography*A New York Times Best Art Book of 2024* The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country...
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The Long Hard Road Out of HellThe 150,000-copy national bestselling autobiography of Marilyn Manson, America's most controversial celebrity icon, is offered with a bonus chapter not included in the hardcover. "By turns moving, funny, appalling, disturbing. . . . There has never been anything like it".--"Rolling Stone". 80 b&w photos....
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The Fire Next TimeA stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first published in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington "The finest essay I've ever read."--Ta-Nehisi Coates, #1 New York Times bestselling...
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The Cookbook: Coming of Age in Turbulent TimesWilliam Powell wrote The Anarchist Cookbook in 1969 at the age of nineteen. It included everything from making bombs to brewing LSD in the bathroom. On publication, it was hailed variously as "outrageous," "extremely dangerous," "communist," and "the most irresponsible publishing venture in American...
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The 50 Greatest Players in Detroit Lions HistoryA ranking of the top 50 players ever to play for the Detroit Lions, based on the degree to which they impacted the fortunes of the team, the extent to which they added to the Lions legacy, and the levels of statistical compilation and...
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Surf Is Where You Find It: The Wisdom of Waves, Any Time, Anywhere, Any WayThe saying goes, "The second best thing about surfing is talking about it afterward." Gerry Lopez, one of the most revered surfers of all time brings readers into the intimately personal sport with Surf Is Where You Find It, a collection of stories that...
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Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the World Without Killing DragonsBoys can be anything they want to be in this New York Times bestselling book! A timeless book giving middle-grade boys a welcome message that masculinity can mean many things. You won't find any stories of slaying dragons or saving princesses here. In Stories...
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Screw Cancer: Becoming WholeNow, an FX limited series, Dying for Sex on Hulu, starring Michelle Williams as Molly and Jenny Slate as Nikki.From Molly Kochan, the subject of the popular acclaimed Wondery podcast Dying for Sex comes her honest, raw, and insightful memoir about love and loss,...
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Profiles in CourageTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy John F. Kennedy's enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues--courage and patriotism--and remains a moving, powerful, and relevant testament to...
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Not Without My Daughter: The Harrowing True Story of a Mother's CourageNot Without My Daughter is the true story of a courageous mother and her breathtaking odyssey, now a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winner Sally Field!In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To...
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Annie Lennox: RetrospectiveA long-awaited visual memoir from Annie Lennox, a legend of popular music and culture. This is the award-winning artist's first and only official book--destined to be the must-have title for music lovers and will command attention from the fashion and photography worlds. Over a...
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Watergate: A New HistoryFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes--this one." --The Washington Post * "Dazzling." --The New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling...
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Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture *Acclaimed as "the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien" (A. N. Wilson), this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The...
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The Outrageous, Definitive, Untold HistoryTold with grit, reverence, and doses of gleeful mischief, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is a front-row seat to music history--and the madness behind chasing down the world's greatest collection of rock relics. Craig Inciardi was a rising star at Sotheby's, wheeling...
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