Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassA masterpiece of American literature, Frederick Douglass' "Narrative" is a powerful story of an enslaved youth coming to social and moral consciousness by disobeying his owners and secretly teaching himself to read. Achieving literacy emboldens him to commit further acts of disobedience that ultimately...
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Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, the biggest battle of the American Civil War, Meade was the longest-serving commander of the Army of the Potomac, leading his army through the brutal Overland Campaign and on to the...
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Neverland: J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter PanIn his revelatory Neverland, Piers Dudgeon tells the tragic story of J. M. Barrie and the Du Maurier family. Driven by a need to fill the vacuum left by sexual impotence, Barrie sought out George du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier s grandfather (author of...
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Oscar López Rivera: Between Torture and ResistanceThe story of Puerto Rican leader Oscar López Rivera is one of courage, valor, and sacrifice. A decorated Viet Nam veteran and well-respected community activist, López Rivera now holds the distinction of being one of the longest held political prisoners in the world. Behind...
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Love and Struggle: My Life in Sds, the Weather Underground, and BeyondA nice Jewish boy from suburban Boston--hell, an Eagle Scout!--David Gilbert arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive Sixties. From the early anti-Vietnam War protests to the founding of SDS, from the Columbia Strike to the tragedy of the Townhouse, Gilbert...
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Father and SonFather and Son is a memoir by poet Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in a Plymouth Brethren home. His father, Philip Henry Gosse, was an influential, though largely self-taught, invertebrate zoologist and student...
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Madam C.J. Walker: EntrepreneurMadam C J Walker originally named Sarah Breedlove was the first in her formerly enslaved family to be born free. Poor for most of her life, Walker invented a line of hair-care products when she was 37 years old. Eleven years later, she owned...
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Red Cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet RocketryLong before the space race captured the world's attention, K. E. Tsiolkovskii first conceived of multi-stage rockets that would later be adapted as the basis of both the U.S. and Soviet rocket programs. Often called the grandfather of Russian rocketry, this provincial scientist was...
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Seth MacFarlane and Family GuySeth MacFarlane is the creator of such popular cartoons as Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. A talented voice artist, he is known for pushing the edges of comedy. His $2 billion empire includes the movies Ted and A Million Ways to...
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African AdventuresPresident Theodore Roosevelt once wrote, "I think that the incident of the Uganda man-eating lions, is the most remarkable account of which we have any record. It is a great pity that it should not be preserved in permanent form." Now this timeless original...
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Florence Nightingale (Yesterday's Classics)Inspiring story of Florence Nightingale from her earliest days as privileged daughter of an English squire to her role as Angel of the Crimea. Even as a young girl her nursing talents were evident as she doctored her dolls and ministered to sickly animals....
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The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White SupremacyRediscover the "most important book on black-white relationships" in America in a special 50th anniversary edition introduced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Walker Percy) "The United States is in actuality not a nation of black people and white people. It is a nation of...
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Richard Wright: The Library of America Unexpurgated Edition: Native Son / Uncle Tom's Children / Black Boy / And MoreFor the first time in a deluxe boxed set, the definitive edition of Richard Wright's landmark works in the form in which he intended them to be read. Here, in authoritative texts based on the author's original typescripts and proofs, is the Library of...
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Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt, Biography & Autobiography - HistoricalThe regiment was also called "Wood's Weary Walkers" in honor of its first commander, Colonel Leonard Wood. This nickname served to acknowledge that despite being a cavalry unit they ended up fighting on foot as infantry. Wood's second in command was former assistant secretary...
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Gabby: Confessions of a Hockey LiferBruce Boudreau is living a hockey Cinderella story. After more than three decades in the minor leagues as a player and coach, he was promoted to head coach of the Washington Capitals in 2007. Boudreau revived the Caps, written off as dead, to a...
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Collision Over Vietnam: A Fighter Pilot's Story of Surviving the Arc Light One TragedyOn June 18, 1965, thirty B-52s took part in the first Strategic Air Command B-52 bombing mission in Vietnam, a mission that, if carried out successfully, might have halted the war in its tracks. Before two of the aircraft could deliver their payload, they...
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Legendary Lawman: The Story of Quick Draw Jelly BryceLargely unknown except in a few law enforcement circles, Jelly Bryce was at the forefront of the conflict during America's gangster era. As an Oklahoma State Game Ranger, Oklahoma City Police Detective, and FBI Agent for over 30 years, Bryce was the man responsible...
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Wicked New Orleans: The Dark Side of the Big EasyA look back at New Orleans's early wicked days and historic crimesSince as early as the 1700s, New Orleans has been a city filled with sin and vice. Those first pioneering citizens of the Big Easy were thieves, vagabonds and criminalsAuthor: Troy TaylorPublisher: History...
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Legends, Lore and Secrets of Western New YorkListen to the whispered legends of spirits, heroes and traitors hidden in one of New York's most captivating regions.Like the region's first inhabitants, the Cat People, who made clothing from the mountain lions and panthers that they hunted, Western New Yorkers still savor the...
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Defying the Nazis: The Story of German Officer Wilm Hosenfeld, Young Readers Edition (Young Readers) (Young Readers)The man who saved The Pianist's Wladyslaw Szpilman and dozens of others. Initially an ardent admirer of Adolf Hitler, Wilm Hosenfeld became aware of the Third Reich's relentless brutality against the Poles and Jews when he was stationed in Poland. Witnessing the Nazis' inhumanity...
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