Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Baseball 100NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year "An instant sports classic." --New York Post * "Stellar." --The Wall Street Journal * "A true masterwork...880 pages of sheer baseball bliss." --BookPage (starred review) * "This...
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The Ballerina of Auschwitz: Young Adult Edition of the ChoiceA Sydney Taylor Award Notable Young Adult Book In this "luminous" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) young adult edition of the bestselling, award-winning memoir The Choice, Holocaust survivor and renowned psychologist Dr. Edith Eva Eger shares her harrowing experiences and gives readers the gift of...
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The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness, and the Space in BetweenOne of Britain's greatest nature writers blends horticulture with philosophy in this intimate memoir about gardening, rewilding, and a path forward amid climate change. What is a garden? Is it an arena for the display of human mastery or might it be something less...
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Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the WorldThe untold story of OC punk--the loud, rebellious force behind the '90s explosion of the Orange County music scene, featuring stories about legendary bands. When it comes to punk communities across the world, the Orange County punk scene stands out as an undeniable trendsetter...
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Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our LivesNational Bestseller Teacher By Teacher traces the remarkable journey of the tenth U.S. Secretary of Education and is a deeply personal love letter to all the teachers in our lives. The story of John B. King Jr.'s inspiring path to President Obama's Cabinet begins...
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Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the SongsThe first complete look at the stories and songcraft behind the entire discography of the voice of a generation, Taylor Swift. New York Times Bestseller!USA Today Bestselling Title! From her humble beginnings as a teenage country singer to her record-breaking Eras Tour, Taylor Swift's...
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Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital"Talkin' Greenwich Village is impeccably researched, elegantly written and consistently fascinating."--New York Times "Browne relates the extensive cast of characters and historical events with journalistic clarity and cinematic scope--so much so that it'll send you back to [A Complete Unknown] to identify who's who...
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Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dalí"Michele Gerber Klein--at long last--gives Gala Dalí the close-up she deserves. When Gala met Salvador, they met their destinies. Surreal takes us backstage at the endless performance piece that was the couple's life's work and life's play--a salient ingredient--and reshuffles art history along the...
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Supersonic: The Complete, Authorized, and Uncut InterviewsThe only authorized book to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the iconic band--in Liam and Noel Gallagher's own candid, colorful words, based on thirty hours of interviews"I know what it feels like to be in the biggest band in the world . . ....
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of StorytellingA five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story -- and why doing so matters. Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or...
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Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools (Scholastic Focus)"Stealing Little Moon is both a moving family saga and an expertly told true story that all Americans should know." --Steve Sheinkin, New York Times bestselling author of Bomb and UndefeatedScholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and thoughtfully designed...
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Stalin: History and Critique of a Black LegendIskra Books is proud to publish the first authorized English edition of Domenico Losurdo's now-mythic text, Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend-translated for the first time from the original Italian. Operating under the assumption that the prevalent rejection of, or dismissiveness about,...
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Source Code: My Beginnings#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age "A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul's early years...Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known...
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Somewhere in BetweenHidden worlds often exist in plain sight: the galaxies above, the buried bodies beneath the Easter Island heads ... and medical school. Somewhere in Between holds a magnifying glass over medical training's idiosyncrasies, from the cadaver lab and board exams to inadvertently broken sterile...
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Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis"A heartfelt record of stepping into one's own." --Publishers Weekly The long-awaited memoir by Priscilla Presley chronicling her difficult, inspiring journey beyond the walls of Graceland and behind the elegant image the world sees. Priscilla Presley's divorce from Elvis left his fans incredulous. How...
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Sociopath: A MemoirThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir of the author's struggle to understand her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder. "A cross between a podcast by relationship therapist Esther Perel and a salacious tell-all." --San Francisco Chronicle...
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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled BodyA memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and...
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Simone BilesIn this book from the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the inspiring life of Simone Biles, the record-breaking gymnast and mental-health advocate. Growing up in foster care, Simone's gymnastics training was an anchor in her life. She first tried the sport after...
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Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit inFor anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates...
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike"An eye-opening look into the story of Knight before his multibillion dollar company." --School Library Journal "A great story about how an ambition turned into a business...serves as a guide for accomplishing great things." --VOYA In this young reader's edition of the New York...
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