Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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I Feel Real Guilty: A Memoir of Sibling Sexual AbuseI'm sorry for what I did to you when you were younger. When Jane Epstein's brother makes this confession, a tsunami of memories floods over her. She remembers the years of sexual abuse at his hands. The pain. The shame. Suffering from trauma few...
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I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her MarkGet to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--in the first picture book about her life--as she proves that disagreeing does not make you disagreeable! Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing against unfair treatment,...
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I Am Jesse OwensJust in time for the Summer Olympics, this 33rd book in the New York Times bestselling biography series for ages 5 to 9 features one of the greatest runners in track and field history. Before Jesse Owens was an Olympic gold medalist, he was...
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How Not to Fly an Airplane: A Female Pilot's JourneyShirley M. Phillips knew she wanted to be a pilot when she was fourteen years old, thanks to an introductory flight in a Cessna that her father gave her and her twin sister at their local airport. Living in a small New England town...
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Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True VoiceThe New York Times bestseller Here's the Story is the poignant memoir of Maureen McCormick, who starred as the beloved Marcia Brady on the hit series The Brady Bunch. Maureen tells her shocking and inspirational true story, taking readers behind the scenes of one...
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth*Finalist for the National Book Award* *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize* *Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly* An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir...
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Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything BetterA neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide--a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing...
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Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to HarmAn expert in the field offers a mindfulness-based approach to nonviolent action, demonstrating how nonviolence is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation Nonviolence was once considered the highest form of activism and radical change. And yet its basic truth, its restorative power,...
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Hannibal: Rome's Greatest EnemyTelling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history. Over two thousand years ago one of the greatest...
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Gifts from Georgia's Garden: How Georgia O'Keeffe Nourished Her ArtCome behind the scenes of Georgia O'Keeffe's famous flower paintings to her sustainable homestead in New Mexico, where art was everything and everything was art. Most of us have heard the name Georgia O'Keeffe-- she's one of the most famous women in art history....
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Gandhi an Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with TruthMohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other...
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From the Reservation to Washington: The Rise of Charles CurtisThe first person of color to serve as vice president, Charles Curtis was once a household name but has become a footnote in American history. As a mixed-race person who became a public figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his story is...
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From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My WayThis #1 internationally bestselling and award-winning memoir about overcoming trauma, prejudice, and addiction by a Métis-Cree author as he struggles to find a way back to himself and his Indigenous culture is "an illuminating, inside account of homelessness, a study of survival and freedom"...
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Frida Kahlo and Her AnimalitosPura Belpré Illustrator Honor 2018 ALA Notable Children's Book 2018 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2017 Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017 Smithsonian Top Ten Best Children's Book of 2017 2018 Bank Street Best Children's Book of...
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Frida KahloIn this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Frida Kahlo, the world-renowned painter. When Frida was a teenager, a terrible road accident changed her life forever. Unable to walk, she began painting from her bed....
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and...
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Four Seasons: The Story of a Business PhilosophyThe inspiring memoir from the innovator entrepreneur who revolutionized the hospitality industry How did a child of immigrants, starting with no background in the hotel business, create the world's most admired and successful hotel brand? And how has Four Seasons grown so dramatically, over...
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Flow of Grace: The Life of William M. Carrigan, Padre Pio's Best American FriendMarried Catholic layman. Philanthropist. Recipient of the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice award.Padre Pio's best American friend.***In late 1943, while serving with the American Red Cross in the mountainous regions of Southern Italy during World War II, William "Bill" Carrigan met St. Pio of Pietrelcina....
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Fieldwork: A Forager's MemoirFrom National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Fieldwork explores how...
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Fi: A Memoir of My Son2025 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST FOR MEMOIRFrom the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child"An elegiac meditation on motherhood and grief, written from...
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