Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Little Book of Kobe: In His Own Words-The Wisdom of a King of Sport, Business and CharityThe wisdom of a king of sport, business and charity. Dedicated to a legend of basketball, this is a pocket-sized compendium of the inspirational thoughts of one of the game's all-time greats. From the earliest years of his life through to the heartfelt tributes...
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The Life-Changing Magic of Baking: A Beginner's Guide by Baker Joy WilsonThe Life-Changing Magic of Baking is a beginner's guide to baking, with secrets from social media sensation and award-winning baker, Joy Wilson Learn how Joy Wilson, also known as Joy the Baker, grew up watching her parents bake, and later took chocolate chip cookies...
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The Last Season"As Jon Krakauer did with Into the Wild, Blehm turns a missing-man riddle into an insightful meditation on wilderness and the personal demons and angels that propel us into it alone." -- Outside magazineDestined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season...
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The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota HistoryDrawing on vivid oral histories, Joseph M. Marshall's intimate biography introduces a never-before-seen portrait of Crazy Horse and his Lakota communityMost of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little...
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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed AmericaFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz--Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie--who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become...
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern FinanceThe National Book Award-winning history of American finance by the renowned biographer and author of Hamilton: "A tour de force" (New York Times Book Review).The House of Morgan is a panoramic story of four generations in the powerful Morgan family and their secretive firms...
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary...
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The History of the Negro ChurchThis book is the non-illustrated version. An illustrated version, which includes images of some of the people mentioned in the book, is available via ISBN 9781680920666.The importance of the church in the life of the Negro justifies the publication of this brief account of...
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The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and WorkJoseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of the twentieth century, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. This masterfully crafted book interweaves conversations between Campbell and some of the people he inspired, including poet Robert Bly, anthropologist Angeles Arrien, filmmaker David Kennard, Doors drummer...
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The Happiness Project, Tenth Anniversary Edition: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle,#1 New York Times Bestseller"An enlightening, laugh-aloud read. . . . Filled with open, honest glimpses into [Rubin's] real life, woven together with constant doses of humor." --Christian Science MonitorGretchen Rubin's year-long experiment to discover how to create true happiness. Drawing on cutting-edge science,...
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and WarNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY PETER FARRELLY, STARRING ZAC EFRON AND RUSSELL CROWE!Instant New York Times BestsellerInstant USA Today Bestseller"Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you...
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The Gift of Peace"I can say in all sincerity that I am at peace. I consider this as God's special gift to me."--Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago, announcing on August 30, 1996, that his cancer had returned after fifteen months of being in remission. The Cardinal...
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical ChurchINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of an Award of Excellence from the Religion Communicators Council "An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the...
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The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in ScienceA New York Times Notable Book As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called "exceptional" as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could succeed at science but because of all they...
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The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in ExileAn urgent and compelling graphic memoir about a Pakistani investigative journalist at odds with his fundamentalist family and the Pakistani military that attempts to kidnap himIn Islamabad in 2018, Pakistani investigative journalist Taha Siddiqui is kidnapped at gunpoint and barely escapes being killed. He...
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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-PortraitAn intimate self-portrait of one of the most renowned Mexican artists of the twentieth century, this beautiful book is "a visual document, engaging the eye with a volcanic profusion of penned-and-painted imagery" (New York Times). Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal...
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los...
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XLes Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic, National Book Award-winning biography, which interweaves previously unknown...
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The Country Diary of an Edwardian LadyA charming addition to Rizzoli's carefully curated program of bringing classic books back into print. This beautifully packaged facsimile of Edith Holden's original diary is filled with a naturalist's masterful paintings and delightful observations chronicling the English countryside throughout 1906. As one of the...
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through MadnessA much-praised memoir of living and surviving mental illness as well as "a stereotype-shattering look at a tenacious woman whose brain is her best friend and her worst enemy" (Time). Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin...
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