Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental FameThoughtfully traces Mara Wilson's] journey from child actress to Hollywood dropout...Who is she now? She's a writer. --NPR's Guide To 2016's Great Reads "Growing up, I wanted to be Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight." --Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of...
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How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the People's Choice Award winner for Favorite YouTube Star and host of NBC's A Little Late with Lilly Singh comes the definitive guide to being a bawse a person who exudes confidence, hustles relentlessly, and smiles genuinely...
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Gone 'Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island"Transfixing... Wayne's] prison diary is, above all, a testament to the irrepressibility of his charisma--his is a force that can never go dormant, even when it's not plainly on display." -The New Yorker From rap superstar Lil Wayne comes Gone 'Til November, a deeply...
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Socrates: A Man for Our Times"Spectacular . . . A delight to read."--The Wall Street Journal From bestselling biographer and historian Paul Johnson, a brilliant portrait of Socrates, the founding father of philosophy In his highly acclaimed style, historian Paul Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer...
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Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life"Somewhere between Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Amy Schumer's stand-up exists Kim Addonizio's style of storytelling . . . at once biting and vulnerable, nostalgic without ever veering off into sentimentality." --Refinery29 "Always vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio is a...
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A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy"Soars into sublime meditation...what makes this book so extraordinary is her willingness to reveal exactly what goes on in the sometimes mysterious encounter between therapist and patient."--The Los Angeles Times. A moving account of a true-life double healing through psychotherapy. In this brave, iconoclastic,...
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Drive: The Story of My Life"Of all the people I play against, the only one I truly fear is Larry Bird."--Magic Johnson, from the Foreword. The heart and soul of a champion: his life, his career, his game. To understand basketball, you have to understand Larry Bird. Arguably the...
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced: A Memoir"I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no." Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when...
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Choosing Hope: How I Moved Forward from Life's Darkest Hour" S]tirring . . . a bold, inspiring and ultimately hopeful book." --Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and author of the New York Times bestseller Thrive"A beautiful portrait of the power of hope and love in the healing of a...
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South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery"This book is as autobiographical as it is biographical . . . a book that juxtaposes two adventurers, one with her own challenges still unfolding and the other with his position fixed in history . . . a book worthy of the centenary celebration...
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The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart: Stories"These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about...
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States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America"Lusty . . . strenuous comedy . . . Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist." New York TimesAuthor: Edmund WhitePublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPublished: 09/18/2014Pages: 364Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80dISBN: 9780299302641About the AuthorEdmund White is the author of...
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Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers"I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves."--Marcus Garvey, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1937A popular companion to the scholarly edition of The Marcus Garvey...
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My...
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The Hitler of History"A valuable service . . . serious, entertaining, provocative and distinctive." --Cleveland Plain Dealer In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time--and at the...
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In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson"A major contribution." Washington PostThe authoritative single-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the most significant figure in American history. He was a complex and compelling man: a fervent advocate of democracy who enjoyed the life of a southern aristocrat and owned slaves, a revolutionary...
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America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century"A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire."--Fred Ross Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would "stay with his own kind," Fred Ross instead became one of the most influential community organizers in American history. His activism...
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Children of Dust: A Portrait of a Muslim as a Young Man" Eteraz's] adventures are a heavenly read." --O, the Oprah magazine"In this supremely assured, lush, and rip-roaring book, Eteraz manages to do the impossible, gliding confidently over the chasm that divides East and West. Wildly entertaining...memoir of the first order." --Murad Kalam, author of...
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 - In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful...
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SpareIt was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must...
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