Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Where Madness Lies: The Double Life of Vivien LeighBeginning in 1953, when Leigh suffers a nervous breakdown, Where Madness Lies tells the moving story of the actress as she attempts to rebuild her life, salvage her career, and save her marriage. Vivien Leigh was one of the greatest film and theatrical stars...
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When Are You Going to Get a Proper Job?: Sixty Years in Journalism, the World Was My OysterA foreign affairs journalist for 60 years, Jonathan Power has traveled all over the world, writing, besides his column in the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times, long articles for Encounter and Prospect magazines, eight books on foreign affairs and many TV...
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Wheels of Injustice: Saving My Child from the Child SaversSix weeks into a blissful honeymoon, life turns into a nightmare when Susan's 9-year-old daughter is taken away and her husband is falsely accused of child sexual abuse.Dragged under the churning wheels of the child protection system, Susan is given a choice: cooperate in...
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What Jackie Taught Us (Revised and Expanded): Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Introduction by L iz SmithA unique perspective on the influence and enduring fascination of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis What Jackie Taught Us offers insights about how Jackie lived with poise, grace, and zest, including wisdom about image and style, focus, courage and vision, men, marriage, and motherhood. After more...
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We Went as Boys...We Came Back as OLD MEN!The InfantrymanHis emotions are impenetrable, yet his shoulders are soft for someone to lean on. His hands are firm, yet know exactly where to be. If he has his arms wrapped around you, you're either in the last moments of your life or the...
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Welcome to the Bright: The Winding Path from Survivor to Thrivor"Febre's writing is at its most lyrical, starting off quietly and gently, then swelling to a crescendo of awe before calming to a resolute whisper of self-affirmation. Welcome to the Bright is a celebration not only of the life we've lived but of the...
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Walk With Me, My Son: You and I Have Some Stories to TellIn 1901, nineteen-year-old Ehmid Alley Awid Amerey moved to London, Ontario, leaving the dissolving Ottoman Empire behind. With conscription on the horizon, he fled in search of safety, adventure, and better economic prospects. So begins Richard Asmet Awid's historical family biography on the Lebanese...
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UnstoppableA definitive and intriguing biography of Max Verstappen, Formula 1's superstar, Lewis Hamilton's great rival and the winner of the 2021 and 2022 World Drivers' Championships. No Hollywood scriptwriter could possibly have envisioned the breathless, adrenaline-pumping climax to the 2021 Formula 1 season. On...
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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of MachinesNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune) explains how we've arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. "AI is not coming, it's here. If we answer the beautiful call inside...
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Unlike the Rest: A Doctor's StoryIn this personal story of becoming, belonging and being seen, a psychiatry resident pulls back the curtain on the journey to becoming a doctor.From childhood, Chika Oriuwa dreamed of being a doctor. She knew that she was destined to wear the white coat one...
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Undaunted: One Man's Real-Life Journey from Unspeakable Memories to Unbelievable GraceUndaunted--both the book and movie--chronicles the riveting true story of a young farm boy named Josh who carried unspeakable memories of an alcoholic father and a farmhand's abuse, causing him to defy God's existence. Yet God redeemed a horrible situation with his unbelievable grace....
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Tupac Shakur: The Authorized BiographyThe authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a "touching, empathetic portrait" (The New York Times) of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more Artist, poet, actor, revolutionary, legendTupac Shakur is one of the greatest...
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True & False Memoir of a Tri-County Rock StarLiving with wolves! Legless cow rides! Alien weddings! Dancing bears! Startled pigeons! Leaping mushrooms! These stories and more may or may not be inside, and they may or may not be true! Oh sure, almost all of them are true, so that leaves ....
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Traveling Freely: EssaysA poet's debut essay collection exploring American faults through the eyes of a Dominican American In Traveling Freely: Essays, Roberto Carlos Garcia explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, American socioeconomic inequality, police violence, our inability to partake in our culture as innocents, and...
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Together in Time: A Family StoryThis story has its roots in a tiny village called Valsinni near the southern coast of Italy. It is the story of a young Italian immigrant boy who journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean to America. It was here that he later met his bride...
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Today I Saw a Revolution: From Grassroots to Global Change: The Badiul Majumdar StoryToday I Saw a Revolution captures the remarkable life of Professor Badiul Majumdar, a visionary leader whose groundbreaking efforts have mobilized millions to end hunger in Bangladesh. This insightful biography offers a compelling look at the man behind the movement-his humble beginnings, innovative ideas,...
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Titty Tales: My Raw, Unapologetic, Faith-Filled Journey from Diagnosis to Victory over Breast CancerI never imagined I would hear the words "You have cancer." My life came to a standstill as this disease took over my every thought and action. However, as I began to write in a journal starting with my first mammogram (ever), this daily...
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Tip of the Spear: It's Not What You ThinkThe elite aren't "different." If you have the work ethic, you can do the same great things. Stop looking at these doctors, lawyers, CEOs, Navy SEALs, etc., as the only markers of success. We define our own success.In Tip of the Spear, author and...
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Tilghman: The Legendary Lawman and the Woman Who Inspired HimLawman, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, rancher horse breeder, saloon keeper, politician...even a movie maker. His name was Bill Tilghman and of all the heroes of the Old West he was one of the last, one of the most heroic, and a legend in his...
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Three-Time World Champ: The Death-Defying True Story of a Kickboxer Turned Drug Smuggler . . . Turned Bu Siness IconThe thrilling true story of the rise and fall of a kickboxing legend in the notorious 1980s Miami crime scene . . . and the shocking end that that led him to a new life. From 1982 to 1987, Thaddeus J. "Ted" Pryor was...
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