Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Myth of Bloody Mary: A Biography of Queen Mary I of EnglandIt is the tragedy of Queen Mary that today, 450 years after her death, she remains the most hated, least understood monarch in English history--remembered best for burning hundreds of Protestant heretics at the stake. Linda Porter's pioneering new biography cuts through the myths...
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Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert RauschenbergCalvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at Rauschenberg's painting Double Feature, Tomkins felt compelled to make some kind of literal connection to the work, and it...
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Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a LifeA Washington Post Book World Rave Harriet McBryde Johnson's witty and highly unconventional memoir opens with a lyrical meditation on death and ends with a bold and unsentimental sermon on pleasure. Born with a congenital neuromuscular disease, Johnson has never been able to walk,...
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Letters to a Young NovelistWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe-Borges, Bierce, C line, Cort zar, Faulkner, Kafka,...
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Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of PowerA riveting account of how the public's right to know is being attacked by an unholy alliance among politicians, news organizations and corporate America. Truth and Duty was made into the 2015 film Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss....
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Warrior: The Legend of Colonel Richard MeinertzhagenPeter Hathaway Capstick died in 1996. At the time of his death, the world-renowned adventure writer was putting the finishing touches on this, a stirring and vivid biography of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a man with whom he felt he had much in common. Edited...
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A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine l'Engle, Author of a Wrinkle in TimeMadeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time has captured the imagination of millions - from literary sensation to timeless classic and now a major motion picture starring Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Storm Reid, and Mindy Kaling. A Light So Lovely tells the story of the...
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William Wilberforce: A Hero for HumanityDramatized in the major motion picture Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce is the remarkable account of how one man's vision, courage, and relentless pursuit of justice brought freedom to thousands and changed the course of history. "That the greatest and most successful...
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Luis de Molina: The Life and Theology of the Founder of Middle KnowledgeWhen Luis de Molina died in Madrid in 1600, he had every reason to believe he was about to be anathametized by Pope Clement VIII. The Protestant Reformation was splitting Europe, tribunals of the Inquisition met regularly in a dozen Spanish cities, and the...
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Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed AmericaOver the course of his forty-year career, Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this galvanizing biography,...
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Sinatra: The ChairmanOne of the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post - Los Angeles Times - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The story of Frank Sinatra's second act, Sinatra finds the Chairman on top of the world, riding high after an Oscar victory--and firmly reestablished as...
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The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. EisenhowerIn this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander's leadership during World War II. Ambrose brings Eisenhower's experience of the Second World War to life, showing in vivid detail how the general's skill as...
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The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua SlocumIn 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally...
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Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in HistoryFrom the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet--moon rocks--from an "impregnable" high-tech vault. But breaking...
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Triumph: Life After the Cult: A Survivor's LessonsA moving and inspirational true story of one woman's life after fleeing the ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect featured in Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey--from the New York Times bestselling author of Escape "Triumph is thoughtful, intelligent, and engaging."--Meg Wolitzer, bestselling author of The Interestings...
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948Opening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1918 traces the Mahatma's life over the three decades preceding his assassination. Drawing on new archival materials, acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha follows Gandhi's...
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A Journey: My Political LifeIn this remarkably gripping memoir, one of the most dynamic and controversial leaders of modern times gives us a firsthand account of his years in office and beyond. Here, for the first time, Tony Blair recounts his role in shaping our recent history, from...
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The Book of Dead PhilosophersIn this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to...
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Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston's War captures the full range of Churchill's endlessly fascinating character. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings's Churchill comes brashly to life as never before. Beginning...
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A Mirror Garden: A MemoirBoth a love story and a celebration of the warmth and elegance of Iranian culture, A Mirror Garden is a genuine fairy tale of an exuberant heroine who has never needed rescuing. "Captivating.... Farmanfarmaian's sumptuously detailed recollections are a rare, insidery look at two...
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