Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Who Was Gandhi?Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-occupied India. Though he studied law in London and spent his early adulthood in South Africa, he remained devoted to his homeland and spent the later part of his life working to make India an independent...
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Who Was Betsy Ross?Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when...
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Who Is Neil Degrasse Tyson?Discover how Neil deGrasse Tyson became one of the world's most successful and well-known scientists in this new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series. When he was nine years old, Neil deGrasse Tyson went on a trip that would change his...
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Who Is J.K. Rowling?Everyone loves Harry Potter. Now kids can learn about Harry's creator! In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J. K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Upon arriving in London, she began immediately writing the...
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Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public ServiceAuthor: Michael LewisPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 09/10/2025Pages: 336Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.90dISBN: 9781420528664
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Whip Smart: The True Story of a Secret LifeA dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman's transformation from college student to professional dominatrix While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon. In poetic, nuanced prose she charts in...
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Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and HopeFrom iconic NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony comes a New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in the housing projects of Red Hook and Baltimore--a brutal world Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised. For a long time, Carmelo Anthony's world wasn't any larger than the view...
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Where in the Hell Did You Come From?: Game Warden Ups and Downs & Ins and OutsRetired Game Warden Wayne Fitzwater served in the Montana Fish & Game Department for over 25 years, covering many of the warden districts in the southwestern part of the state. He began his tenure with the department in the 1950s, and witnessed several changes...
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When You're in Deep Water Call... Moses: The Life Story of Legendary Bail Bondsman Bounty HunterWhen You're in Deep Water Call... Moses is the gripping autobiography of legendary bail bondsman and bounty hunter Moses Kardashian. Known for his fearless approach, Kardashian has spent over 49 years capturing fugitives and confronting some of the most dangerous criminals across America. From...
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What a Fool Believes: A Memoir* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award-winning, platinum selling singer-songwriter Michael McDonald, written with his friend, Emmy Award-nominated actor, comedian, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Paul Reiser.Doobie Brothers....
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Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old RunawayFrom the beloved writer Nina Stibbe, a warm and funny story of a woman changing her life at 60. 'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls, author of One Day 'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason, author of Sorrow...
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We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy*A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Esquire* "A remarkable book." --Steve Martin "An illumating and stereotype-busting history of Native Americans and comedy" (The Washington Post) from Kliph Nesteroff, "the human encyclopedia of comedy" (VICE). It was one of the most reliable...
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian MemoirFinalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize An NPR Best Book of the Year A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer,...
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Wavewalker: A Memoir of Breaking FreeTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing' SIMON WINCHESTER'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy' TELEGRAPH'This is...
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Walden and Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts--part social experiment, part spiritual quest--is an enduringly influential American classic. In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyrical...
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Up North in Michigan: A Portrait of Place in Four SeasonsNorthern Michigan is a place, like all places, in change. Over the past half century, its landscape has been bulldozed, subdivided, and built upon. Climate change warms the water of the Great Lakes at an alarming rate--Lake Superior is now the fastest-warming large body...
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Uplifted: The Evolution of a Climbing Life"A refreshing memoir, fast, fun, and joyous." -- Alex Honnold, climber featured in Free Solo and author of Alone on the WallHow is a person changed by commitment to their passion, and how does their commitment change over time? These are questions that esteemed...
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Unredacted: Russia, Trump, and the Fight for DemocracyThe intelligence officer behind the explosive "Steele Dossier" steps out of the shadows, revealing a searing new report on the threat Putin and Trump pose to democracy, based on alarming intelligence exposed in these pages for the first time"Putin is now desperate to have...
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Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy DivisionIn Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook, bassist for the legendary, groundbreaking band Joy Division, takes readers backstage with the group that helped define the sound of a generation and influenced artists such as U2, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Unlike other...
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Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice"Essential reading, filled with exactly the kind of truth that this precarious moment demands." --Kaira Jewel Lingo, author of We Were Made for These Times Abby Reyes lost her partner, Terence Unity Freitas, as he and two others were murdered after departing Kajka Ika--the...
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