Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to AmericaA riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world--and Picasso the most famous artist alive--in the shadow of World War II "[Eakin] has mastered this material. . . . The book soars."--The New...
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Volume 1/2: Large Print EditionThis is volume 1 of a 2 volume set. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War,...
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Our Blood Runs Black McClure #1 Mine ExplosionAuthors Marsha Sutherland Self and Rebecca Riner White document personal accounts of coal mining families and how their lives changed on June 21, 1983.On June 21, 1983, a devastating explosion rocked the two-left section of McClure #1 Mine in Virginia, one mile into the...
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Other Rivers: A Chinese EducationAn intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China's heartland, by an author who has observed the country's tumultuous changes over the past quarter century More than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China's economic boom, an...
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its SoulIn this #1 New York Times bestseller, the CEO of Starbucks recounts the story and leadership lessons behind the global coffee company's comeback and continued success. In 2008, Howard Schultz decided to return as the CEO of Starbucks to help restore its financial health...
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On Great Fields: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the UnionNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero."A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in...
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One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague KindertransportSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story. *Now a major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter* In 1938, 29-year-old...
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Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-KennedyA NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, and USA TODAY BESTSELLER *The basis for the forthcoming season of American Love Story on FX, directed by Ryan Murphy* This "intimate and sympathetic portrait of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy that is as enthralling as she was" (Dana Thomas,...
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Number's Up: Cracking the Code of an American FamilyAuthor: Johnisha Matthews LeviPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 06/17/2025Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.61h x 5.91w x 0.83dISBN: 9781985902329About the AuthorLevi, Johnisha Matthews: - Johnisha Matthews Levi is a nonprofit development professional and former litigation attorney. Her writing has appeared in Wildsam, thekitchn.com, Northern...
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Nothin' Comes Easy: The Life of Rodney DangerfieldThe first-ever biography of the legendary comic and the most improbable rise to fame in the history of American comedy. Getting there wasn't always a laughing matter. Rodney Dangerfield's fidgety delivery, self-deprecating humor, and catchphrase "I don't get no respect" made him a comedy...
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No Surrender: My Thirty-Year WarIn the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine army and police, hostile islanders, and eventually successive Japanese...
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No Modernism Without LesbiansA Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear, kiss, publish and be damned. It is vastly entertaining and often moving......
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Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg GordievskyOleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain.For eleven years, from 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer, first in Copenhagen, then...
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009New York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she's been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered--all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture. Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter, a lifelong diary enthusiast,...
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Never Enough: From Barista to BillionaireUSA Today Bestseller National Bestseller "Like going to business school and therapy all in one book." --James Clear, New York Times Bestselling Author, Atomic Habits Once a barista in a small cafe making $6.50 an hour, Andrew Wilkinson built a business valued at over...
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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at MidcenturyAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and...
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My Own Country: A Doctor's StoryFrom the author of The Covenant of Water and New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone: a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. "Remarkable.... An account of the [AIDS] plague years in America. Beautifully written...by a...
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My Name Is Mahtob: The Story That Began in the Global Phenomenon Not Without My Daughter ContinuesThe daughter at the center of the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter completes her story: escaping from Iran, growing up in fear, battling deadly disease, and learning to forgive--now in paperback.Two decades ago, millions of readers worldwide thrilled to the story told in...
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My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & MiracleA daughter's search for her deceased mother brings her face to face with the gods, ghosts, and saints of Cuba. "My Mother in Havana lifts the veil between the living and the dead and makes believers of us all. This story of a mother's...
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My Lives: A Memoir"This is Edmund White's best book by far, and a classic of emotional intelligence and generosity. . . . My Lives subsumes and concentrates all his other work."--Daily Telegraph (London)No one has been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in...
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