Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Charles Whitfield Richards: The Artist and His CircleCharles Whitfield Richards: The Artist and His Circle is the first book-length biography of the artist and journalist, whose career spanned Jazz Age Paris to modern New Orleans. He found himself at the center of the New Orleans art community from the 1930s to...
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Call Me Larry: A Creole Man's Triumph Over Racism and HomophobiaRaised in a large, loving Creole family, Lawrence Bagneris Jr. knew from a young age that he liked boys. But New Orleans in the 1950s and early 1960s wasn't an easy place to be out. In high school, he channeled his energies into the...
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Bread of Angels: A MemoirA radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids "God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper," writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. A post-World War II childhood unfolds in...
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Bottom of the Pyramid: A Memoir of Persevering, Dancing for Myself, and Starring in My Own Life"Sioux's harrowing reality TV ordeal cuts deep, and her subsequent self-assurance is endearing and infectious. It adds up to an inspiring account of reclaiming artistic agency." - Publisher's WeeklyWhen you've been told over and over that you belong at the bottom, how do you...
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Bottom of the 33rd LP"Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough." --Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax "What a book--an exquisite exercise in story-telling, democracy and myth-making." --Colum McCann, winner of the National Book...
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of SortsHow does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures.'Every writer is at least two beings: the one...
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Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban WildsFor readers of What an Owl Knows and The World Without Us, this infectiously impassioned tour of the five New York City boroughs offers city dwellers and bird lovers everywhere a surprising, delightful new view of the concrete jungle--through its abundant and diverse bird...
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Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: The Complete Thirty-Two Chapter Biography of America's 'Baseball Preacher'Billy Sunday entered the public eye as an outfielder in Chicago baseball before turning to preaching - a gifted and charismatic speaker, he entertained enormous crowds for decades.Published when Billy Sunday was at the height of his fame in 1914, this biography takes us...
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Anschel's Story: Determined to SurviveThis book is a heart-stopping journey told in first person, which describes unusual courage and uncanny luck. It is the true story of a young teenager who lost everyone and everything during the Holocaust. He fought to live on in spite of ghettos, fatal...
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Another Bone-Swapping EventBrad Fox takes us on a wild exploration of plants and people, imagination and matter, over an unexpected year-long waylay in the high jungle of northeastern Peru. "Brad Fox has traveled to the center of many worlds and here records a visit to the...
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Annie Leibovitz: Women: 2025 Edition'A sweeping meditation on femininity, power, vulnerability, and the visual vocabulary we use to define all three.' - VogueThe complete Annie Leibovitz Women collection, featuring more than 250 portraits spanning over 30 yearsFirst published in 1999, Annie Leibovitz's landmark collection of portraits of women...
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An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex WorkThrough the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a "rigorous and compulsively readable memoir" (New York magazine) exploring what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society. "A memoir of sex work...
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And the Dragons Do Come: Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural AmericaA gripping account of one family's battle to protect their daughter against transphobia and hate in contemporary America Our country stands at a critical cultural crossroads, with a wave of anti-trans legislation emerging at unprecedented levels, targeting trans children, in particular, who face increasing...
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Ancient Greece for Kids Through the Lives of its Philosophers, Lawmakers, and HeroesAs a kid, I loved history. But whenever a history book started a boring dive into the economy, class structure, and archaeological finds of this or that era, I turned off my flashlight and went to sleep.Kids like stories. Whether these are stories of...
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An Apple for Harriet TubmanBest Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street CollegeOne day I am going to be free--and I'm going to have all the apples I want.Like other enslaved African American children, young Harriet Tubman had to work hard. In her master's orchard, she spent long...
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Ambassador of Hope: Turning Poverty and Prison into a Purpose-Driven LifeAndre Norman's early life put him on a path to prison. Raised in poverty and surrounded by dysfunction, Andre gravitated to his neighborhood gang. His choices there led to time in juvenile detention, and eventually a maximum-security prison, with sentences totaling over 100 years....
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Alpha and OmegaFrom Marginalian Editions: a far-seeing essay collection by the iconoclastic historian Jane Ellen Harrison--heroine to generations of writers from Virginia Woolf to Mary Beard--that explores the invisible tendrils between science and the sacred, the psychology of bias, the fulcrum of progress, and the countercultural...
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A Lifetime of Wisdom: Embracing the Way God Heals YouIt's not what I lost. It's what I've found. I was only seventeen, just a girl, when God asked me for everything I had . . . my health, my hopes, my independence, my dreams, my freedom, and my mobility. He took it all.I...
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A Kids' Guide to the American RevolutionPacked with anecdotes, sidebars, quotes, and illustrations, A Kids' Guide to the American Revolution brings vividly to life the birth of our nation.Introduce young readers to the stakes, challenges, setbacks, and victories involved in the single most important event in our nation's history, the...
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A Drifting LifeThe award-winning memoir translated by Taro Nettleton with a new design by Adrian Tomine In this memoir that won two Eisner Awards, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, a prize at the Festival de la BD d'Angoulême, and was adapted into a feature film that...
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