Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Life of Prophet Muhammad SAW The Last Messenger and Prophet of God English EditionThe advent of the Prophet Muhammad SAW changed the face of the history of mankind in a manner that this world has never seen before. Since the first man and Prophet Adam Pbuh was sent down to Earth, Allah SWT sent many prophets and...
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Include Me Out: My Life from Goldwyn to BroadwaySynonymous with the golden age of Broadway, the dazzling lights of Hollywood, and the rise of television arts, Farley Granger's charm and talent captivated the acting community and audiences alike. Working with creative visionaries like Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, and Nick Ray, Granger was...
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stardust & skin: poetry of an old soulstardust and skin is a poetic memoir based on a singular perspective. lessons learned through abandonment. heartbreak. childhood trauma and abuse. motherhood. cancer. catalytic lovers. co-dependence. spiritual awakening. and the infinite possibilities of manifesting through your healing. this poetic memoir is based upon inner...
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Reading Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo dedicated his life to the transformation of humanity. His journey saw him traverse many paths, including that of poet, journalist, jailed revolutionary, philosopher, and radical mystic. Essays, translations, literary criticism, political articles, philosophical treatises, poetry, epics, plays and short stories-his writings encompass...
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The Waygook Book: A Foreigner's Guide to South KoreaSometimes home is best understood from the other side of the world. It's Chicago in 2012, and Matthew has three jobs, two degrees, and one relentless itch to return home to Ohio. Rather than drive 317 miles east to Columbus, he and his wife...
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story of the Refugee CrisisSituated more than one hundred miles off Italy's southern coast, the rocky island of Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees fleeing civil war and terrorism and...
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Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a SaintSince her death at the age of nineteen in 1431, Joan of Arc has maintained a remarkable hold on our collective imagination. She was a teenager of astonishing common sense and a national heroine who led men in to battle as a courageous warrior....
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From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in AmericaPeer through history at Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet, whose steady nature and dominating figure earned him the nicknames "War Horse," "Bulldog," and "Bull of the Woods." Years after the war, Longstreet's reputation swung between Confederate hero and brutish scoundrel. A dutiful soldier with...
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Paul Newman: A BiographyPaul Leonard Newman was a true Renaissance man who is known worldwide for his performances as an actor and director. His career in the entertainment industry stretched over 50 years, as did his marriage to Joanne Woodward--an unusual and notable achievement in Hollywood. Newman...
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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold WarOnly two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War. The two men embodied opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Yet they dined together, attended the weddings of each other's children, and remained lifelong friends. Paul Nitze was a consummate insider who...
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Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young ManOne of our great essayists and journalists--the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau--takes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this vividly atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past and...
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William Tyndale: A Very Brief History'On the morning of 6 October 1536, a frail scholar was taken from a dungeon in the castle at Vilvoorde, just north of Brussels. Armed guards kept the crowds at bay as he was led through the streets of the small town. He was...
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William Tyndale: A Very Brief History'On the morning of 6 October 1536, a frail scholar was taken from a dungeon in the castle at Vilvoorde, just north of Brussels. Armed guards kept the crowds at bay as he was led through the streets of the small town. He was...
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Witness to the Storm: A Jewish Journey from Nazi Berlin to the 82nd Airborne, 1920-1945On June 6, 1944, Werner T. Angress parachuted down from a C-47 into German-occupied France with the 82nd Airborne Division. Nine days later, he was captured behind enemy lines and, concealing his identity as a German-born Jew, became a prisoner of war. Eventually, he...
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Sully: My Search for What Really MattersNow a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger--the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, saving the...
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Not EvalynNot Evalyn Is the true story of Evalyn Sintoya, a young girl who is told she is not allowed to go to school. In her village, only boys are allowed to go to school. Girls must stay with their mothers and learn to care...
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Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant YearsNicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English prison for the crime of "gross indecency" between men. Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years challenges the prevailing,...
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Michelle Obama: An American StoryMichelle Obama grew up on Chicago's South Side, and while the world outside her door was chaotic and ever-changing, her family provided a stable environment in which she could grow and flourish. This look at Michelle Obama's life and the turning points that shaped...
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Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in AmericaMary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father worked in the sugar plantations of Hawaii briefly before taking his family to California. They shared the poverty-stricken existence...
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Gyppo LoggerMargaret Elley Felt's autobiographical Gyppo Logger, originally published in 1963, tells a story almost universally overlooked in the history of the logging industry: the emergence of family-based, independent contract or "gyppo" loggers in the post-World War II timber economy, and the crucial role of...
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