Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental JusticeNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving to serve diverse communities in San Francisco amidst environmental catastrophes, an accelerating tide of racial and economic inequality, burnout, and his family's expectations. A WASHINGTON POST AND...
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Admitted AssassinThirty years after the initial discovery of Roscoe White's naval footlocker, Ricky White - with the help of J. Gary Shaw and Brian K. Edwards - has made documented connection between items in the footlocker and munitions cannister and the events and people surrounding...
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You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top ModelIn this revealing memoir, a fan favorite America's Next Top Model contestant pulls back the curtain on the iconic but deeply flawed reality competition show, exposing the manipulation and chaos behind the scenes. "A delicious, hilariously relatable behind-the-scenes memoir. A page-turning lark turns into...
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You Have a New MemoryNATIONAL BESTSELLER An open-hearted interrogation of our digital selves, braiding cultural criticism, memoir, and narrative musings into an exploration of identity, girlhood, media, tech, nature and "finding the depth and beauty in the fucked-up world we live in" from a writer, artist, and influencer...
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Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and BelongingOne woman's epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean in this searing memoir for fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped. An adventurous blend of personal and cultural history from a star National Geographic Explorer...
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Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac ShakurFrom Pitchfork and Guardian contributor Dean Van Nguyen comes a revelatory history of Tupac beyond his musical legend, as a radical son of the Black Panther Party whose political legacy still resonates today. Before his murder at age twenty-five, Tupac Shakur rose to staggering...
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Woods & Words: The Story of Poet Mary OliverThis inspiring and enriching picture book biography explores the life and work of beloved poet Mary Oliver in its own uniquely lyrical way, shining a light on Mary's belief that there are treasures and poems all around us in nature waiting to be discovered....
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of MedicineNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care. In the early 1800s,...
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and OkinawaNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific--the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the...
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Why Religion?: A Personal StoryNew York Times bestsellerOne of PW's Best Books of the YearOne of Amazon's Best Books of the Month Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience...
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Who Was Wilma Mankiller?Learn about the life and legacy of the first woman to serve as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation! Wilma Mankiller's struggle for political change throughout her life will be sure to inspire readers in this addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling...
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Who Was Walt Disney?Read about the incredible life of Walt Disney in this addition to the #1 New York Times best-selling Who Was? series. Walt Disney always loved to entertain people. Often it got him into trouble. Once he painted pictures with tar on the side of...
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Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?The story of one of the most influential civil rights activist of our time. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right...
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Who Was Blackbeard?Though much of his early life remains a mystery, Blackbeard most likely began his life as Edward Teach in the sailing port of Bristol, England. He began his career as a hired British sailor during Queen Anne's War. He eventually settled in the Bahamas...
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Who Is Dolly Parton?Born in a little cabin in Tennessee, Dolly Parton always dreamed big, and she was right to! She wrote her first song at age five and became a country music star by the time she was in her early twenties. Of course, her success...
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Who Is Aaron Judge?Learn about the exciting record-breaking career of home run hero Aaron Judge in the Who HQ Now format featuring newsmakers and trending topics. Since making his Major League Baseball debut in 2016, Aaron Judge has taken the world of baseball by storm. He has...
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Where Yellow Flowers Bloom: A True Story of Hope through Unimaginable LossImmersive Memoir Embraces the Extraordinary Power of the Human Spirit and The Transformative Nature of Love. Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award Memoir Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award GriefGold Medal Winner of the Book Excellence Award Grief Bronze Medal Winner...
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When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American FashionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Smithsonian, New York Post, and Financial...
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What We Talk about When We're Over 60Those of us who are over sixty are not amused at being compared to aging wine, and certainly not cheese. In this book thirty of us - writers, educators, businesswomen, motivational speakers, mothers, grandmothers, retirees, an artist, a hairdresser, a psychic, a farmer, a...
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What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the WorldNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to heal on a personal and a collective level, showing us that we don't have to carry our emotional burdens alone."I love this book."--Bessel van...
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