Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill RobinsonOver sixty years after his death, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is still the most famous tap dancer who ever lived. Robinson was the first black single dancer to star in white vaudeville circuits and he was a headliner for nearly thirty years. He got top...
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Claudette Colvin Refuses to Move: Courageous Kid of the Civil Rights MovementIt's March 2, 1955, and an ordinary 15-year-old girl from Montgomery, Alabama is about to do something extraordinary. When a white bus driver orders Claudette Colvin to give up her seat for a white passenger, she refuses to move. After Claudette is arrested, her...
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Bob Crane: The Definitive BiographySince his untimely death on June 29, 1978, Bob Crane's unofficial biography has become akin to a broken record. Like a skip in the acetate, his murder and the scandal that grew from it have been the repeated focus of attention, to the exclusion...
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A Black Man's Journey from Sharecropper to College President: The Life and Work of William Johnson Trent, 1873-1963An intimate portrait of the life of a black man who lived from just after emancipation to the boycotts and sit-ins of the 1950s and 1960s -- this book not only tells of his journey from the farm to a leadership position in the...
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Famous Men of GreeceThe history of Greece is taught chronologically, as students read short biographical sketches outlining the lives of important figures. The selections begin with the Greek creation and flood stories, then continue with legendary figures like Perseus, Hercules, and Jason. Then come the leaders of...
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Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem: Richard the Lionheart, the Crusades and the Battle for the Holy LandSaladin is a legendary figure in the history of the Middle East. His rise to prominence in the tumultuous arena of twelfth-century Middle Eastern politics was rapid and he quickly established himself as an intrepid statesman as well as a formidable military commander of...
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Who I AmOscar-nominated Charlotte Rampling most recently appeared in HBO's Dexter, and the feature film 45 Years. Her career has spanned popular entertainment and arthouse cinema, having starred in English, French and Italian films from 1966's Georgy Girl (opposite Lynn Redgrave), to films with French director...
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Roller-Coaster Grandma: The Amazing Story of Dr. RuthDr. Ruth Westheimer's stories of her youth--from her escape from the Nazi's at age 10 to her training as a sniper, to her immigration to the US. Told in Graphic Novel format.Author: Ruth K. WestheimerPublisher: Apples & Honey PressPublished: 02/01/2018Pages: 64Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize:...
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Risking the Rapids: How My Wilderness Adventure Healed My Childhood#1 New Release in Alcoholism and Christian Self-Help ─ Memoir and Portrait of a Family at Its Worst and BestSome memoirs shock. Some entertain. Some take us places we're afraid to go. A rare few move us. Once in a blue moon, a book...
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Eddie Olczyk: Beating the Odds in Hockey and in LifeEddie Olczyk had built a life and career most people could only dream of. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, he fell in love with the game of hockey during an era when most kids preferred balls to pucks. Against all odds, he...
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Becoming the Light: Realize Your True Enlightened NatureFrom untruth to truth, darkness to light, ignorance to enlightenment, this is Vivianne Nantel's journey. Intimately chronicling Vivianne's quest to overcome a battered childhood, survive depression, advanced breast cancer, and near-death experiences, along with her journey seeking in India Becoming the Light is more...
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Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine StateMary McLeod Bethune was often called the First Lady of Negro America, but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well. From the founding of the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in 1904, Bethune galvanized African...
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Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard BrautiganConfident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends...
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The WalkIn The Walk, William deBuys writes about personal loss and the power of the landscape to nurture the recovery of hope. The book consists of three interrelated essays that move from a period of strife in the author's life to a kind of limbo...
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Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay StenderWho was Fay Abrahams Stender? A giant among Movement lawyers from the McCarthy Era to the 1970s intent on forcing society to change. Friends could easily picture her as the heroine of a grand opera. A child prodigy, she abandoned the concert piano to...
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Rick Hansen: A Life in Motion2015 Golden Oak nominee A biography for young readers of activist Rick Hansen. Rick Hansen suffered a spinal cord injury at the age of 15 after a car accident. But it didn't stop him - during the 1980s he was active in the Paralympics...
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Grizzlies, Gales and Giant Salmon: Life at a Rivers Inlet Fishing LodgeAt age nineteen, Pat Ardley packed up her belongings and left Winnipeg for Vancouver, looking for adventure. Little did she know that she'd spend the next forty years in the wilderness, thirty of which would be spent with a man known as George "Hurricane"...
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I Am Redeemed: Learning to Live in GraceMike Weaver, lead singer of Big Daddy Weave, shares from personal experience how when all we can see is our struggles and failures, God reminds us of who we are. . . . His children. Loved. Set free. Redeemed.I Am Redeemed is an open...
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The American Dream?: A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast BurritoAs a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what America meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people, sunlight, and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath--a nightmare landscape...
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Process: The Writing Lives of Great AuthorsErnest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. In Process, acclaimed journalist Sarah Stodola examines the creative methods of literature's most transformative figures. Each chapter contains a mini biography of one of the world's most lauded authors, focused solely...
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