Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Blazing Humor: Mel Brooks Is Seriously Funny!Some people think jokes are silly, but not Mel Brooks. For Mel, humor is serious. And Mel is seriously funny! This picture book biography of the legendary comedian and filmmaker shares his humor with a new generation--and shows kids how Mel used his jokes...
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Big Baby: On Endings, Beginnings, and an Interdimensional CatFrom comedian and viral sensation Kevin James Thornton comes a hilarious and heartfelt story of growing up in a Christian fundamentalist church, turning trauma into comedy, and finding your own way. Growing up in the 90s in a small town in Indiana, Kevin James...
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Beautiful Things: A MemoirNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love," Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving and "unflinchingly honest" (Entertainment Weekly) memoir of addiction, loss, and survival. When he was two years old, Hunter...
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A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War IIA searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison camp In 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a northern Russian labor camp, where he spent the two...
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As the Pentagon Burned: Leadership and Human Excellence in the Face of the 9/11 AttackLeadership in Crisis: Insights from 9/11 on Decision-Making, Resilience, and the Human Element in High-Stakes Situations, Guiding Leaders to Navigate Chaos and Transform Challenges into Opportunities for Growth and Learning.As the Pentagon Burned immerses readers in the harrowing events of September 11, 2001, from...
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A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam MemoirThe New York Times BestsellerSidney Hillman Foundation Award Winner "Heartbreaking, terrifying, and enraging. It belongs to the literature of men at war." --Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe 40th anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir--featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by...
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Ara: The Life and Legacy of a Notre Dame Legend--The Authorized Biography of Coach Ara ParseghianAra: The Life and Legacy of a Notre Dame Legend captures the personality, courage, and character of a great man who faced adversity on and off the field.Through his unprecedented access to Ara Parseghian's personal files, author Mark O. Hubbard explores the coach's innovative...
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Andrew Jackson: Young PatriotDear Reader: The Childhood of Famous Americans series, seventy years old in 2002, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in an accessible manner. Each book is faithful in spirit to the values and experiences that influenced the person's development. History...
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Already Whole: What was missing was meIn Already Whole: What was missing was me, Latoya Greene tells a powerful and unfiltered story of survival, service, and self-reclamation. From a childhood marked by abandonment, abuse, and instability to a groundbreaking career in the United States Army, Greene chronicles the cost of...
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Already Whole: What was missing was meIn Already Whole: What was missing was me, Latoya Greene tells a powerful and unfiltered story of survival, service, and self-reclamation. From a childhood marked by abandonment, abuse, and instability to a groundbreaking career in the United States Army, Greene chronicles the cost of...
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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and ShipwreckTHE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY NPR, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, AND MORE "This is nonfiction...
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All You Need Is Flights: How Kintsugi, Moai, and Volcano Pizza Helped Me Make More Solo Travel MagicIn All You Need Is Flights, Jen Ruiz transforms an unexpected breakup into a gift: the catalyst for an inner journey toward greater self-worth through another year of solo travel adventures.A major life transformation starting on your thirtieth birthday, leading to an entirely different...
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Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding FatherA graphic novel biography of the American legend who inspired the hit Broadway musical Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was one of the most influential figures in United States history--he fought in the Revolutionary War, helped develop the Constitution, and as the first Secretary of the...
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After Jail, Before FreedomAfter Jail, Before Freedom tells the story of five men who get out of prison and try to stay out. Joined together by their experience in a writing class at the Richmond City Jail, which led to their first book, Writing Our Way Out:...
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You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again"The Hollywood memoir that tells all . . . Sex. Drugs. Greed. Why, it sounds just like a movie."--The New York Times Every memoir claims to bare it all, but Julia Phillips's actually does. This is an addictive, gloves-off exposé from the producer of...
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Ya Sama! Moments from My LifeTatyana McFadden is one of the all-time great athletes in sports history. Ya Sama! Moments from My Life chronicles the incredible journey from her birth with spina bifida in Russia in 1989 and her early years in a St. Petersburg orphanage, to her U.S....
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Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American WestIn the exhilarating spirit of Wild and A Walk in the Park, this "intimate and action-packed memoir" (Outside) follows one woman's struggle to succeed as a wildland firefighter on an elite, male-dominated crew as they battle some of the fiercest wildfires in the West....
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Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell MeansRussell Means was the most controversial American Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life, in which he did everything possible to dramatize and justify the American Indian aim of self-determination, such as...
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Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries"[This book] is a treasure. The first time I read it, I remember closing the final page and thinking to myself, I wish I could make every single Christian on earth read this book. ... John Chrysostom, Evagrius the Solitary, Julian of Norwich, Martin...
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Visualize Your Greatness: The Playbook for the Seven CS of SuccessVisualize Your Greatness is more than a memoir--it's a masterclass in purpose, grit, and godly ambition from Hall of Fame linebacker and leadership mentor Mike Singletary. Raised in Houston's Sunnyside neighborhood under the weight of poverty and generational pain, Singletary refused to accept despair...
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