Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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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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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous SurvivalJoe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and...
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Wish I Was a BallerWish I Was a Baller is part New Kid, part The Tryout, and part Dragon Hoops!Amar Shah has some story to tell! In 1995, he was a fourteen-year-old aspiring sports journalist (and basketball superfan) angling to get into an Orlando Magic team practice. He...
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A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to SurviveThis book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games...
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John Lewis: A LifePulitzer Prize Finalist New York Times Book Review Top 100 Books of 2024 Explore the "comprehensive and compelling" (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as "the conscience of Congress," through a narrative that weaves together exclusive interviews, never-before-seen FBI files,...
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail2014 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in History / Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her,...
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