Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Nathan Hale: America's First SpyThe American colonies had just declared independence from the British. But General George Washington knew things were not going the Americans' way. When Gen. Washington needed someone to spy on the British, only one young man volunteered. That man was Nathan Hale, an early...
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My Uncle AlbertWhat would it be like to be Albert Einstein? What kind of struggles can this great man have? As the last blood relative of Albert Einstein, Stephen, his nephew, would definitely know. The first man to be named the Man of the Century, Albert...
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Loving Life: Five Decades in Radio and TVThe tall skinny kid with a deep voice and a small record collection launched his first radio station even before starting high school. He would over the next four decades become one of Virginia's most recognized on-air personalities, concert promoters and media trailblazers. Gene...
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Wait, It Gets Worse: Love, Death, and My Transformation from Control Freak to Human BeingLydia Slaby was 33 years old and had everything she believed would make her happy: three fancy private school degrees, a successful husband who was in the inner circles of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, a high-paying job as an attorney--even an enviable yoga practice....
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Reconstructing Mabel: A Taos MemoirHigh in the mountains of New Mexico, Taos has long been a magnet for artists. When writer Valmai Howe Elkins, escaping brutal east coast winters, buys a tiny house without even seeing inside, lured by the way the light shimmers between the branches of...
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Eternity at the End of A Rope (Softcover)Since 1819 over 3,000 souls found their personal "eternity at the end of a rope" in Texas. Some earned their way. Others were the victim of mistaken identity, or an act of vigilante justice. Deserved or not, when the hangman's knot is pulled up...
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Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's HometownBlues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right. --Keith RichardsAn emotional map of musical Memphis. If you don't know these characters, let Robert Gordon introduce you. --Elvis CostelloRobert Gordon's book is proof...
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The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty That Transformed a State and Shaped a NationMiriam Pawel's fascinating book . . . illuminates the sea change in the nation's politics in the last half of the 20th century.--New York Times Book Review California Book Award Gold Medal Winner * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A...
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Hi Mom, Did You Miss Me? Volume 3Author: Joseph RoushPublisher: Redemption PressPublished: 08/06/2014Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27dISBN: 9781632327277
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Inmate 46857INMATE 46857 sat on his prison cot at Parchman Penitentiary in 1982 fingering his homemade knife and contemplating murdering two fellow inmates just to strengthen his tough reputation. As the nineteen-year-old convict visualized himself stabbing his intended victims, God intervened and provided deliverance. The...
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When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew: A MemoirBorn in the Netherlands at a time when girls are to be housewives and mothers and nothing else, Hendrika de Vries is a "daddy's girl" until her father is deported from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to a POW camp in Germany and her mother joins the...
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Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through LettersWritten between 1940 and the late 1970s, the postwar recollections of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson have been celebrated as an historic portrait of modern science and its greatest players, including Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Hans Bethe. Chronicling the stories of those...
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Through My Mother's Eyes: The Story of a Young Girl's Life as a Prisoner of War in the Santo Tomas Internment CampJean-Marie Faggiano and her family were living in the Philippines when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. The following month, she and her family, along with over 3,600 other non-national civilians, were forced to surrender to the Imperial Japanese Army and live...
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Quin Fue Fernando de Magallanes? / Who Was Ferdinand Magellan? (Spanish Edition)When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take...
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Ships, Swindlers, and Scalded Hogs: The Rise and Fall of the Crooker Shipyard in Bath, MaineBrothers William Donnell Crooker and Charles Crooker were among the most prominent mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilders in Bath, Maine, itself one of the most prominent shipbuilding cities in the world during that time. This colorful history of the Crookers' company by the great-great grandson of William...
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Quantrill of Missouri: The Making of a Guerilla WarriorOne will not find the name of William Clarke Quantrill in the pantheon of noble Civil War personalities but rather listed near the top of the list of its notorious scoundrels. He has been demonized as the devil incarnate, and most historical accounts portray...
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Dylan: The BiographyThe ultimate biography of the musical icon. A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into Bob Dylan lore--including subjects Dylan himself left out of Chronicles: Volume One. DYLAN: The Biography focuses on why this beloved...
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Fight of the Century: Alice Paul Battles Woodrow Wilson for the VoteThe fight for women's suffrage between women's rights leader Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson is creatively presented as a four-round boxing match in this energetic nonfiction picture book. When Woodrow Wilson was elected President, he didn't know that he would be participating in...
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Rod Laver: An AutobiographyRod Laver's memoir is the inspiring story of how a diminutive, left-handed, red-headed country boy from Rockhampton, Australia became one of sports' greatest champions. Rod was a dominant force in world tennis for almost two decades. In 1962, Rod became the second man to...
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Ben Hogan: The Myths Everyone Knows, the Man No One KnewBen Hogan's accomplishments on the golf course are the stuff of legends, but his life off it was exceedingly private. In this biography, author Tim Scott demonstrates why such public perception was not representative of Hogan's personality, offering a firsthand glimpse into the famous...
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