Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Carson the MagnificentThe definitive biography of Johnny Carson, the entertainer who redefined late-night television and American culture, told through intimate insights and riveting accounts of his legendary career and complex personal life. In 2002, Bill Zehme landed one of the most coveted assignments for a magazine...
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The Brontës' Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian EnglandThe Brontës' Christmas invites you to step back in time and explore the delights of a Victorian Christmas through the eyes of our most beloved authors. While the Brontë family's celebrations weren't the most exuberant, Victorian society cheerfully embraced the newfound idea of Christmas...
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The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition: The Scary But True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the DarkExplore the unbelievable true story of America's glowing girls and their fight for justice in the young readers edition of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Radium Girls. This enthralling new edition includes all-new material, including a glossary, timeline, and dozens...
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight BackFrom the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women's rights and exposed injustices that still...
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Untamed: Reese's Book Club#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD! "Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today."--Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club Pick) In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and "patron...
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American WestNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West--"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 1846, the Army of the...
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American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OppenheimerTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD(R)-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER - "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the...
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work!"Nikki Giovanni is one of our national treasures."--Gloria NaylorWhen Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, she immediately took a place among...
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Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient WorldIn her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman...
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First CenturyA groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art...
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Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever ToldNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Recommended Book in the Washington Post, the New York Times Style Magazine, Observer, W Magazine, NBC News, E! Online, Queerty, Literary Hub, Stylist, Dazed, & Publishers Weekly From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking,...
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The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across AmericaNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion presents a "heartwarming [and] engaging folk-hero biography" (Kirkus Reviews) of a woman who fulfilled her lifelong wish to see the Pacific Ocean by riding her horse...
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Code TalkerThe first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII. His name wasn't Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native...
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King: A Life (Young Adult Edition)Hailed as "the most compelling account of [Martin Luther] King's life in a generation" by the Washington Post, the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller is now adapted for young adults in this new standard biography of the most famous civil rights activist in American History. Often...
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Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis StevensonFrom a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction "Damrosch brings to Stevenson's life the calm, humane interpretive powers that he deployed with such success in . . . The Club....
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The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever"Valiant and timely .... reintroduces its subject as a hero for this moment." ―The New York Times How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood--and the brilliant doctor who defied them After Elizabeth Blackwell became...
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Shadow Cell: An Insider Account of America's New Spy WarA thrilling firsthand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the agency--an unprecedented insider account of 21st-century spycraft in the tradition of Argo and Black Ops. Andrew and Jihi Bustamante were a...
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Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's GardenA "heartfelt and thoroughly enriching" (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect...
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All the Way to the River: Oprah's Book Club: Love, Loss, and LiberationIn her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends,...
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Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters ChristianityNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 2015 Christian Book Award winner - Nabeel Qureshi describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity in this expanded edition with new bonus content and reflections. "My friend Nabeel Qureshi was courageous enough to chase down the truth with...
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