Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus"A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice" (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review) Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s,...
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Beautiful Jim Key: The Lost History of the World's Smartest HorseBeautiful Jim Key -- the one-time ugly duckling of a scrub colt who became one of the most beloved heroes of the turn of the century -- was adored not for his beauty and speed but rather for his remarkable abilities to read, write,...
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Basketball Goats: The Greatest Athletes of All TimeHow do you pick basketball's GOATs? Michael Jordan and LeBron James get a lot of GOAT nods. But is Steph Curry the greatest shooter? And what about all-time WNBA points leader Diana Taurasi? It comes down to stats, history, and hunches. Read more about...
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Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical KinshipIn a moving example of unconditional love in dif-ficult times, Gregory Boyle, the Jesuit priest and New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, shares what working with gang members in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring...
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Bad SisterThis middle grade graphic memoir by Charise Mericle Harper, featuring illustrations by Rory Lucey, follows a young girl who undergoes a crisis of conscience, realizing that she is a "bad sister." Meet Charise. She's energetic, helpful, a model pet owner and full of inventions....
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Autumn Peltier, Water WarriorFrom New York Times bestselling author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Bridget George comes a must-read companion to the powerful, award-winning picture book We Are Water Protectors. Telling the story of reall-ife water protectors, Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior celebrates Autumn Peltier and her great-aunt Josephine...
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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story"Profound, funny ... wild and moving ... heartbreaking accounts of a lonely black childhood.... Brown sees racial oppression in national and global context; every political word she writes pounds home a lesson about commerce, money, racism, communism, you name it ... A glowing achievement."...
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A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on WashingtonWinner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award A singular, richly illustrated picture book biography of Bayard Rustin, the gay Black man behind the March on Washington of 1963, by the acclaimed authors of Unspeakable: the Tulsa Race Massacre and Pride: The Story of...
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A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern FranceIn this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong. Steve Hoffman...
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Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World**One of Foreign Affairs's Best Books of 2024** From Franklin Roosevelt's final days through Harry Truman's extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history. When Roosevelt, in failing health, decided to run for a fourth term,...
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A Savage LifeRadio legend Michael Savage reveals the man behind the microphone, sharing his extraordinary American journey and the adventures that shaped him.**FEATURING EXCLUSIVE, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED NEW MATERIAL**For twenty-five years, Michael Savage has captivated listeners on his national radio show The Savage Nation, which reaches a loyal...
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A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults): My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the StarsA NASA astrophysicist narrates his improbable journey from an impoverished childhood and an adolescence mired in drugs and crime to the nation's top physics PhD program at Stanford in this inspiring coming-of-age memoir. Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James Edward Plummer was...
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Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master: A Yogi's AutobiographyThe author Sri 'M' is an extraordinary individual. His uniqueness lies not only in the fact that at the young age of 19 and a half, he travelled to snow clad Himalayas from Kerala, and there he met and lived for several years with...
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Antsy Ansel: Ansel Adams, a Life in NatureA Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the YearAnsel Adams just couldn't sit still. He felt trapped indoors and never walked anywhere--he ran. Even when he sat, his feet danced. But in nature, Ansel felt right at home. He fell in love...
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A MemoirNick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally...
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An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex WorkThrough the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a "rigorous and compulsively readable memoir" (New York magazine) exploring what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society. "A memoir of sex work...
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Angela Davis: An Autobiography"An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend."--Ibram X. KendiThis beautiful new edition of Angela Davis's classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by the author."I am excited to be publishing this new edition of my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a...
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A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau"Thanks to this writer's exhaustive, scrupulous, honest research debunking the false or questionable myths passed down through the generations, we can now be confident of what we know and do not know about Marie Laveau and her life and times in nineteenth-century New Orleans."--Gwendolyn...
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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking CrimeUSA TODAY BESTSELLER"A wild ride beneath the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood, proving once again that Casey Sherman is a master of the genre." --Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestselling author of Dumb Money, Bringing Down the House, and The Accidental BillionairesThe dark...
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A More Brilliant Life: Rise Above Expectations. Discover Who You Are. Reclaim Your Future.Break the Cycle. Reclaim Your Joy. Design a Life You Love.Are you living the life you were meant to live-or just surviving the one you've inherited?In A More Brilliant Life, Kylie and Jake Rieke share their powerful, honest journey from exhaustion and despair to...
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