Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Complete Operas of VerdiThe Complete Operas of Verdi is the first full-length study of all of Verdi's operas. This work of the brilliant British music critic Charles Osborne covers Verdi's complete operatic oeuvre--including the missing choral works, songs, a string quartet, and the Messa da Requiem. The...
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President Kennedy: Profile of PowerPresident Kennedy is the compelling, dramatic history of JFK's thousand days in office. It illuminates the presidential center of power by providing an indepth look at the day-by-day decisions and dilemmas of the thirty-fifth president as he faced everything from the threat of nuclear...
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NecropolisNecropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest Russian poet of our time." In each of the book's nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes a significant figure of Russia's literary Silver Age, and in the process writes an...
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Meetings with Remarkable Men: All and Everything, 2nd SeriesMeetings with Remarkable Men, G. I. Gurdjieff's autobiographical account of his youth and early travels, has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive "read" in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with Gurdjieff's unique perspective on...
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How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete SeegerHow Can I Keep from Singing? is the compelling story of how the son of a respectable Puritan family became a consummate performer and American rebel. Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an...
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China Witness: Voices from a Silent GenerationChina Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them. Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out...
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Birth School Metallica Death, 1: The Inside Story of Metallica (1981-1991)Birth School Metallica Death is the definitive story of the most significant rock band since Led Zeppelin, covering the band's formation up to their breakthrough eponymous fifth album, aka The Black Album. The intense and sometimes fraught relationship between aloof-yet-simmering singer, chief lyricist, and...
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A Fly in the Soup: MemoirsA Fly in the Soup is a book of memoirs. Charles Simic was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and spent his childhood in a city bombed by the Nazis in 1941 and then by the Allies in 1944. He was jailed with his...
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The Last Fine TimeAuthor: Verlyn KlinkenborgPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublished: 04/01/2004Pages: 209Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.48w x 0.65dISBN: 9780226443355About the AuthorVerlyn Kilnkenborg comes from a family of Iowa farmers. A member of the editorial board of the New York Times, Klinkenborg has been published in...
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Listening with the Third Ear: The Inner Experience of a PsychoanalystAuthor: Theodor ReikPublisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublished: 09/01/1983Pages: 532Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 7.98h x 6.46w x 1.33dISBN: 9780374518004This title is not returnable
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A Deer in the Headlights: Losing My FreedomAuthor: Roland MacherPublisher: Slumlord Millionaire LLCPublished: 01/10/2023Pages: 194Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41dISBN: 9780998809090This title is not returnable
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The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan BearsWith a new introduction on Werner Herzog's film entitled The Grizzly ManTimothy Treadwell, self-styled "bear whisperer" dared to live among the grizzlies, seeking to overturn the perception of them as dangerously aggressive animals. When he and his girlfriend were mauled, it created a media...
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Two Lives of CharlemagneTwo revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and...
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Two Lives of CharlemagneTwo revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and...
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KillingsTrue stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden." Killings, first published...
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I Rode with Jeb Stuart: The Life and Campaigns of Major General J. E. B. StuartThis book, which is both biography and memoir, is the richest source on the Civil War career of the plumed knight of the Army of Northern Virginia, Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart. . . . It is by all odds the most reliable...
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Adventures of a MathematicianThe true story that inspired the 2020 film. The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos...
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Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life UnstrungThe spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off -- and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made; her first piece was...
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Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J. T. Stepanek and HeartsongsThe moving tribute to the young man Oprah Winfrey called an inspiration-told by the woman who raised him. Mattie Stepanek's Heartsongs books were a phenomenon. Not only did they hit the bestseller lists, but the books-and Mattie himself- were a source of inspiration to...
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The Infiltrator: The True Story of One Man Against the Biggest Drug Cartel in HistoryThe electrifying true story of Robert Mazur's life as an undercover agent who infiltrated one of the world's largest drug cartels by posing as a high-level money launderer -- the inspiration for the major motion picture The Infiltrator. Robert Mazur spent years undercover infiltrating...
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