Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Fight of His Life: Joe Louis's Battle for Freedom During World War IIThe boxing champion whose fight against the Nazis in and out of the ring made him a global icon "A sharp, hard-hitting, beautifully written account of one of the greatest sports figures in all American history."―Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life...
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The Day My Mother Never Came HomeAs featured in 48 Hours, CBS Mornings, Newsweek and A&E's Cold Case FilesA Publishers Weekly Memoir and Autobiography Spotlight ReadA Goodreads "Great Reads About Mental Health" Top 50"A Memoir that plays out more like a true crime story." - A Trauma Survivor Thriver's Podcast"My...
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The Bottomless Cup: A Memoir of Secrets, Restaurants, and ForgivenessAn eye-opening, entertaining, and unflinchingly honest memoir that reads like The Tender Bar meets The Bear James Beard Award-winning restaurateur Kevin Boehm has opened 40 restaurants in his 30-year career. He's worked with hard-core line cooks and celebrity chefs, suffered embarrassing setbacks, and won...
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The Bigger Picture: My Blockbuster Life & Lessons Learned Along the WayAn uplifting and entertaining behind-the-scenes memoir about a life in film and the joy in solving problems with grace, kindness, and generosity, by the late film producer Jon Landau (Avatar, Titanic), written as he battled cancer and came to terms with his terminal diagnosis....
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The Baron of Wall Street: Clarence Dillon and the Making of the Modern Financial WorldThe definitive biography of one of the most influential and innovative figures in the history of American finance who revolutionized Wall Street and whose story reads like a real-life Great GatsbyJ.P. Morgan. John D. Rockefeller. Charles E. Mitchell. These are some of the most...
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The Accidental Vineyard: An Old House, New Vines, and a Changed Life in Wine CountryIn a story reminiscent of A Year in Provence and We Bought a Zoo, a spontaneous drive from San Francisco to wine country leads a harried corporate executive and his family to a dilapidated 19th century Victorian home. They set out to return the...
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Tesla's WalkAccompany the genius inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla on a poetic journey through one autumn day in 1899 Colorado Springs.Nikola Tesla's eight-month visit to Colorado Springs in 1899 is integral to his evolution as a genius inventor. Yet, for many, it still exudes an...
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Tennessee Williams in ProvincetownTennesse Williams in Provincetown is the story of Tennesse Williams' four summer seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts: 1940, '41, '44 and '47. During that time he wrote plays, short stories, and jewel-like poems. In Provincetown Williams fell in love unguardedly for perhaps the only time...
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Taylor Swift: Unstoppable IconTaylor Swift has dominated the music industry for years. Known for her witty lyrics, star-studded career, and close connection with her fans, Swift is well-regarded by critics and industry pros alike. While on break from her successful Eras Tour, she released her new album,...
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SwizSWIZ WAS A WASHINGTON, D.C.-BASED hardcore punk band that existed from April of 1987 through August of 1990, cutting their teeth and carving their place in the scene that birthed trailblazers and contemporaries like Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Dag Nasty, Fugazi, Ian MacKaye, Dave...
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Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring PerfectionAntonio Stradivari (1644--1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive, their quality...
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Story Work: Field Notes on Self-Discovery and Reclaiming Your NarrativeA guide to understanding the stories we tell ourselves and the actions needed to reclaim power over our narrative. We absorb the world around us through stories. It's how we make sense of our surroundings, our communities, and ourselves. There's often truth and validity...
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Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen LandIn this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, the son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of...
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Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and OuttakesA Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * ShondalandBy the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction...
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So Help Me GodThe New York Times bestselling autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence. Loyalty is a Vice President's first duty; but there is a greater one--to God and the Constitution. Mike Pence spent more hours in the Oval Office than any of his predecessors. On...
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Sitting Bull - Paperback: His Life and LegacyThis story of Native American History, told by a Native American, provides a new perspective on the iconic legend Sitting Bull.Now in paperback, this is the only book on Sitting Bull written by a lineal descendant of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota chief. Ernie LaPointe...
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Sarah's oil: Too Young, Too Rich, Too Black: The Legal War Over a Child's FortuneAt just ten years old, Sarah Rector became one of the wealthiest children in America, an extraordinary twist of fate for a Black girl born into the shadows of slavery and segregation in early 20th-century Oklahoma. But what should have been a story of...
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Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a RevolutionSoon to be Apple feature movie, Being Heumann, directed by CODA's Sian Heder and starring BAFTA-nominated actress Ruth Madeley as Judy Heumann As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for readers of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights...
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Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a Us SenatorRichard L. Neuberger is a consequential but often forgotten figure in Oregon history, largely due to his early death at forty-seven, near the end of his only term in the United States Senate. But his life and legacy continue to inspire Oregonians and influence...
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Revolutions Are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee BoggsRevolutions are made out of love for people and for place. This was a core belief of activists and married couple James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs. James Boggs was a worker from rural Alabama in the segregated South. Grace Lee Boggs was a...
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