Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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John Wayne: The Man Behind the MythA rare behind-the-scenes look at John Wayne: the legend, hero, and Hollywood icon of numerous epic Western films, including an Academy Award-winning performance in True Grit. No legend ever walked taller than "The Duke." Now, author Michael Munn's startling new biography of John Wayne...
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Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man's Escape from the CrowdA provocative, intellectual memoir (USA Today)-from a remarkable new literary voice. Growing up, Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in life: his parents, literature, and the intoxicating hip-hop culture that surrounded him. For years, he managed to juggle two disparate lifestyles, keeping...
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Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard CohenA memoir of the author's decades-long friendship and spiritual journey with the late singer, songwriter, novelist, and poet Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, leaving behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime...
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Thomas HardyA masterful portrait (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own. The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who...
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Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of MemoryA long-awaited, new interpretation of Charlotte Salomon's singular and complex modern artwork, Life? or Theatre? Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), comprising 784 paintings and created between 1941 and 1942. This major art-historical...
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The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden GeometryA Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape--the Calabi-Yau manifold--that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe. "An unexpectedly intimate look into a highly accomplished man, his colleagues and friends, the development of a new field of geometric...
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Adam Smith: Father of EconomicsA dazzlingly original, remarkable account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely...
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Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming OutA collection of poignant, relatable essays from the author of Never Have I Ever about coming out in her late twenties, entering into her first relationship, and figuring out what it means to be an adult. When Katie Heaney published her first book of...
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Needles: A Memoir of Growing Up with DiabetesA CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG LIFE IRREVERSIBLY ALTERED BY ILLNESS I know about needles. All her life, Andie Dominick adored her older sister, Denise. She wanted to look like her, talk like her, be her. Unfortunately, she got part of her wish when,...
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The Little Book of Little ActivistsA celebration of political activism by America's youngest citizens--our children. You're never too young to care about your community or to stand up for your beliefs. That's the empowering message of this book, which is all about how real kids exercise their first amendment...
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Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian WarA bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, an intimate lens on the century's bloodiest conflict, and a profound meditation on kinship, home, and freedom. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK...
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The End of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, a Widow's New LifeA New York Times bestseller, The End of Normal is the explosive and heartbreaking memoir from the widow of Mark Madoff and the daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff. When the news of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme broke, no one was more shocked than the members...
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Spy: The Inside Story of How the Fbi's Robert Hanssen Betrayed AmericaSpy tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for twenty-two years in what has been called the "worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history"-and how he was finally caught in an...
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper LeeNew York Times Bestseller "A winning, nuanced portrait. . . . It seems unlikely we'll ever have a better record of a remarkable American life." --USA Today There are many reasons to be grateful for The Mockingbird Next Door....A zesty account of two women...
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Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her WorldNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Bestselling historian Alison Weir tells the poignant, suspenseful and sometimes tragic story of Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Yorkist King Edward IV and sister of the Princes in the Tower, a woman whose life was inextricably caught up in...
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Even the Stars Look LonesomeNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Maya Angelou writes like a song, and like the truth."--The New York Times Book Review "Everything about Maya Angelou is transcendental. She has something to tell you now. Listen."--Robert Fulghum, The Washington Post Book World I have written of...
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Molly Pitcher: Young PatriotMolly Pitcher: Young Patroit is the next installment in the Childhood of Famous Americans series. A childhood biography of the Pennsylvania German woman who became a Revolutionary War heroine when she carried water to American soldiers and even fired a cannon herself during the...
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Ascension: John Coltrane and His QuestAscension is as spellbinding as Coltrane's music.--The New Review of Records This remarkable book traces the development of Coltrane's music as it moved from hard bop to the freest jazz. . . . Informed and convincing, Ascension belongs on the short list of essential...
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Alexander Hamilton's Guide to LifeThe life--and lessons--of the Founding Father who mastered the arts of wit, war, and wealth, long before becoming the subject of Broadway's Hamilton: An American Musical Two centuries after his death, Alexander Hamilton is shining once more under the world's spotlight--and we need him...
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Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of EverythingNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn a memoir of family bonding and cutting-edge physics for readers of Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality and Jim Holt's Why Does the World Exist?, Amanda Gefter tells the story of how she...
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