Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Invisible Vision: The hidden story of Dr. Newton K. Wesley, American contact lens pioneerAs recently as 1940, contact lenses did not exist for Americans. Invisible Vision is the hidden story of the man who brought them into existence, trained doctors and opticians to fit them, and developed the country's largest contact lens manufacturing company that started the...
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Celebrant's Flame: Daniel Berrigan in Memory and ReflectionDaniel Berrigan (]2016+) is most notorious for dramatic anti-war actions at a Catonsville draft board and a Pennsylvania nuclear weapons plant in the '60s and '80s. Indeed, with friends, he was practically devising what's been called "liturgical direct action." Berrigan was also teacher, pastor,...
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An Accidental (psy) Warrior: One soldier's recollections of the psychological operations efforts during the Vietnam WarAlthough trained as a U.S. Army broadcaster, Albert Viator was quickly diverted into PSYOPS-psychological warfare-and spent his one-year tour of duty during 1968 and 1969 "broadcasting" propaganda from a loudspeaker pack on his back and dropping leaflets from helicopters in support of infantry operations....
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Hebrew Hammer: A Biography of Al Rosen, All-Star Third BasemanThis first biography of four-time all-star Al Rosen covers the career of perhaps the best player on the fabulous Cleveland Indians' teams of the 1950s. From 1951 to 1956, the Tribe won one American League pennant (1954) and finished second to New York the...
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Shadows on the Klamath: A Woman in the WoodsIn 1973, Louise Wagenknecht was just another college graduate, but unlike many, she wanted to go home, back to the Klamath Mountains where she was raised. When a job offer from the Klamath National Forest gave her that chance, she jumped at it. She...
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Wor GeordieThis book is based on true facts in the life of a young lad from Gateshead, in northeast England. Geordie lived in a one-bedroom, upstairs flat with his Mam, his Dad and his seven brothers and sisters. He had a way of attracting trouble...
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Caviar and Sausages: Arsenal in the Time of Wenger"This is a beautifully-produced book forensically recounting the Wenger years using a nice mix of graphics and anecdotes. One for any Arsenal fan." Arsenal legend Alan Smith."If you eat caviar every day, it's difficult to return to sausages." Arsène Wenger, November 1998.Caviar and Sausages...
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A Narrative of the Life and Adventure of VentureA Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798) is an autobiography by Venture Smith. Written while Smith was living in freedom on his own farm in Connecticut, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture is recognized by scholars as a...
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Behind The Magic Mirror: A Searing Memoir of Betrayal Mental Illness and MurderA visually rich autobiography that begins with Sandra's childhood years in a gloomy Ohio Valley steel town and follows her through her career on Romper Room. It is a searing story of a woman who lead a double life. One of personal pain, betrayal,...
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I Was More American Than the Americans: Sylvère Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien GrauA personal take on French Theory by one of the people who invented it. In the mid-1970s, Sylvère Lotringer created Semiotext(e), a philosophical group that became a magazine and then a publishing house. Since its creation, Semio-text(e) has been a place of stimulating dialogue...
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Printmaker's Daughter, Painter's Wife: Volume 47Deconstructing the fundamentals of identity.This work of fusion moves beyond memoir to become a juggling act of reality and imagination. The narrative travels through melded panoramas of past and present, this country, the others, certainties and doubts. Inserts of fiction--revealing ties between life and...
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Dissolving the Anchor: Untethering Dysphoria and Self-Doubt to Create an Empowered Life"Heal my wounds and let my fading scars be stories of my triumphs...." After a suicide attempt, Luv Mrk Founder Hailima Yates shares her inspiring journey to combat loneliness, low sense of worth, self-sabotaging behavior, and suicidal ideation without access to therapy. Yates gives...
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Bear Boy: The True Story of a Boy, Two Bears, and the Fight to be FreeBear Boy is a true-life coming-of-age story of two bears who inspire one boy to stand up for animals, question authority and discover the power of activism."This is a book that will encourage you to follow your dreams...I simply couldn't put it down." -Jane...
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Backrooms and Bayous: My Life in Louisiana PoliticsState history, behind-the-scenes stories, funny anecdotes, and life lessons come together to form Robert Mann's indelible memoir about his life and career alongside some of the most powerful lawmakers in the South.Offering an in-depth, personal perspective of working in government, Mann shares the lives...
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Years of Endurance: Life Aboard the Battlecruiser Tiger 1914-16This memoir is perhaps one of the most immediate and vivid recollections of life in a Royal Navy battlecruiser to come out of World War I. John Muir, a surgeon, was the senior medical officer aboard HMS Tiger from her commissioning in October 1914...
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The Pan-African Love Story of Arnold and Mignon FordIn this thrilling narrative, the reader is introduced to Arnold Josiah Ford - giant of black music; legendary black Jewish Rabbi; stalwart of the Marcus Garvey Movement; heroic "back to Africa" pioneer - and to Mignon Lorraine Inniss Ford - a courageous freedom fighter...
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Girl Left BehindAt age five, Judy Temes was living with her parents and brother in a small town near Hungary's southern border. Unlike most, the family had comforts: a roomy apartment, a television, even a vacation home. What more could anyone want? But for her father,...
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The Love, Heartache, and Devotion of a Mom and Grandma: Story of a very strong Faith and Hope!A book of happy times, disappointments, mental illness, addictions, sexual abuse, neglect and abuse-and even death! A mom sharing her youngest daughter's life of struggles in abusive situations and addictions. As a grandma witnessing her four little grandchildren living in these toxic situations-also the...
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Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land WarHow diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and...
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Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the GrassrootsOne of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights. As a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Moses presented himself as a...
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