Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Borrowed Time: An AIDS MemoirThis "tender and lyrical" memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era-"searing, shattering, ultimately hope inspiring account of a great love story" (San Francisco Examiner). A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the winner...
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Born to RunThe revealing, wildly entertaining, and bestselling memoir from the legendary Bruce Springsteen, one of the greatest songwriters and performers of any era. Born to Run is the greatest rock 'n' roll story ever told. Essential reading for 2025's 50th anniversary of Springsteen's seminal album...
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World WarTraditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the "New World." Still others...
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Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories in the Four Corners: The Turbulent 1970sA one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest in the 1970s. From the late summer of 1972 to the late summer of 1974, John Redhouse and many other Red Power activists put...
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Boone: A BiographyThe story of Daniel Boone is the story of America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that...
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Booker T. Washington Collection: The Negro Problem, Up from Slavery, the Future of the American Negro, the History of SlaveryIn this 3 in 1 collection, we united three books by Washington including Washington's most known book, Up from Slavery, and a small fourth one. The other books included are The Negro Problem, a collection of essays by prominent black American writers, The Future...
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Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of ResistanceDietrich Bonhoeffer publicly confronted Nazism and anti-Semitic racism in Hitler's Germany. The Reich's political ideology, when mixed with theology of the German Christian movement, turned Jesus into a divine representation of the ideal, racially pure Aryan and allowed race-hate to become part of Germany's...
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Body: My Life in Parts"This is a brilliant new way to write a memoir... I feel enriched, and grateful to discover a different way to go through my days. I loved every word." Abigail Thomas, author of A Three Dog LifeBody: My Life in Parts is the memoir...
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Bobbito's Book of B-Ball Bong Bong!: A Memoir of Sports, Style, and SoulBASKETBALL ON NEW YORK CITY'S 700+ OUTDOOR COURTS was bubbling during the seventies and eighties and coincided with the birth of hip-hop and sneaker culture. Bobbito García came of age during this era and caught an uncontrollable fever to be a ballplayer, witnessing firsthand...
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Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A MemoirA gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who went from Crips cofounder to Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author, and anti-gang activist. When his LA neighborhood was threatened by gangbangers, Stanley Tookie Williams and a friend formed the Crips, but what began as...
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Blood & Hate: The Untold Story of Marvelous Marvin Hagler's Battle for Glory"Blood& Hate reads like a thriller: a raw, unflinching saga of survival, betrayal, and the kind of obsession that turns underdogs into kings. Wedgedelivers Hagler's story like a haymaker to the jaw--brutal, brilliant, andimpossible to forget."--Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestsellingauthor of The Accidental...
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Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant ChefNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald - Newsday - The Huffington Post - Financial Times - GQ - Slate - Men's Journal - Washington Examiner -...
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Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint LouvertureWinner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize"Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read." --David A. Bell,...
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Black History Is Your HistoryFrom TikTok star and creator of Fast Black History Taylor Cassidy comes a witty, lightly illustrated nonfiction debut that blends history and memoir in a joyful celebration of Black American historical figures. Meet Taylor Cassidy, Black history enthusiast and creator of the viral TikTok...
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Black Boy"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."--New York Times Book ReviewCelebrating its eightieth anniversary, Richard Wright's eloquent autobiography about growing up in the Jim Crow South that...
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Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate"A thorough, exciting examination of 18th-century pirate life, with wonderful details."--Publishers Weekly "Interesting and exciting . . . a thoroughly enjoyable chronicle of an interesting life and interesting era."--Booklist The definitive biography of history's most fearsome and famous pirate Of all the colorful cutthroats...
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Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our LegacyFrom New York Times bestselling and award-winning author and American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland comes an illustrated nonfiction collection celebrating dancers of color who have influenced her on and off the stage. As a young girl living in a motel with her...
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Bird Brothers, a Delhi Story★"This nonfiction book has themes of environmental protection, determination, helping others, and following one's passions. The artwork and the story are inspiring and beautiful." --School Library Journal (SLJ) starred review Brothers Nadeem and Saud grew up in Delhi watching the majestic raptors called black...
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Bipolar Refugee: A Saga of Survival and ResilienceIn 1939, Mary Krotoczynski left Berlin on the Kindertransport while her parents remained to perish in the Holocaust. In this memoir, her son chronicles her courageous struggles as a refugee, first in England and postwar Germany, and then in America. Mary fought to build...
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Billy the Kid: The Life Behind the LegendThis new, in-depth life of Henry McCarty, alias Billy Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, offers fresh perspectives, not only on the Lincoln County War and his boyhood in Silver City, New Mexico, but also on his Irish mother's origins and immigration to Indiana, his...
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