Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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China Witness: Voices from a Silent GenerationChina Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them. Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out...
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Birth School Metallica Death, 1: The Inside Story of Metallica (1981-1991)Birth School Metallica Death is the definitive story of the most significant rock band since Led Zeppelin, covering the band's formation up to their breakthrough eponymous fifth album, aka The Black Album. The intense and sometimes fraught relationship between aloof-yet-simmering singer, chief lyricist, and...
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A Fly in the Soup: MemoirsA Fly in the Soup is a book of memoirs. Charles Simic was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and spent his childhood in a city bombed by the Nazis in 1941 and then by the Allies in 1944. He was jailed with his...
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The Last Fine TimeAuthor: Verlyn KlinkenborgPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublished: 04/01/2004Pages: 209Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.48w x 0.65dISBN: 9780226443355About the AuthorVerlyn Kilnkenborg comes from a family of Iowa farmers. A member of the editorial board of the New York Times, Klinkenborg has been published in...
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Listening with the Third Ear: The Inner Experience of a PsychoanalystAuthor: Theodor ReikPublisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublished: 09/01/1983Pages: 532Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 7.98h x 6.46w x 1.33dISBN: 9780374518004This title is not returnable
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A Deer in the Headlights: Losing My FreedomAuthor: Roland MacherPublisher: Slumlord Millionaire LLCPublished: 01/10/2023Pages: 194Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41dISBN: 9780998809090This title is not returnable
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The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan BearsWith a new introduction on Werner Herzog's film entitled The Grizzly ManTimothy Treadwell, self-styled "bear whisperer" dared to live among the grizzlies, seeking to overturn the perception of them as dangerously aggressive animals. When he and his girlfriend were mauled, it created a media...
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Two Lives of CharlemagneTwo revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and...
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Two Lives of CharlemagneTwo revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and...
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KillingsTrue stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden." Killings, first published...
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I Rode with Jeb Stuart: The Life and Campaigns of Major General J. E. B. StuartThis book, which is both biography and memoir, is the richest source on the Civil War career of the plumed knight of the Army of Northern Virginia, Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart. . . . It is by all odds the most reliable...
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Adventures of a MathematicianThe true story that inspired the 2020 film. The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos...
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A Slaying in the Suburbs: The Tara Grant MurderThe true story of the Tara Grant murder. To their suburban Detroit neighbors, Stephen and Tara Grant were happy as could be. But their marriage, plagued by resentment and extramarital affairs, was held together only by their children. Until the night Stephen snapped, strangled...
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Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life UnstrungThe spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off -- and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made; her first piece was...
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In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles SongsThe perfect gift for any Beatles fan, In Their Lives is an anthology of essays from a chorus of twenty-nine luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs. The Beatles' influence--on their contemporaries, on our cultural consciousness, and on the music industry ever...
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Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J. T. Stepanek and HeartsongsThe moving tribute to the young man Oprah Winfrey called an inspiration-told by the woman who raised him. Mattie Stepanek's Heartsongs books were a phenomenon. Not only did they hit the bestseller lists, but the books-and Mattie himself- were a source of inspiration to...
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The Infiltrator: The True Story of One Man Against the Biggest Drug Cartel in HistoryThe electrifying true story of Robert Mazur's life as an undercover agent who infiltrated one of the world's largest drug cartels by posing as a high-level money launderer -- the inspiration for the major motion picture The Infiltrator. Robert Mazur spent years undercover infiltrating...
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Dave Brubeck: A Life in TimeTHE DEFINITIVE, INVESTIGATIVE BIOGRAPHY OFJAZZ LEGENDDAVE BRUBECK(TAKE FIVE) In 2003, music journalist Philip Clark was granted unparalleled access to jazz legend Dave Brubeck. Over the course of ten days, he shadowed the Dave Brubeck Quartet during their extended British tour, recording an epic interview...
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Napoleon: A LifeThe definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as magnificent by The Economist. What a novel my life has been! Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman,...
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The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict WomenThe convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery...
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