Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Two Kinds of DecayA Spare and Unsparing Look at Affliction and Recovery that Heralds a Stunning New Voice The events that began in 1995 might keep happening to me as long as things can happen to me. Think of deep space, through which heavenly bodies fly forever....
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Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-SongwriterPaul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson. In this first ever...
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Cooked: My Journey from the Streets to the StoveBy twenty-one, Jeff Henderson was making up to $35,000 a week cooking and selling crack cocaine. By twenty-four, he had been sentenced to nineteen and a half years in prison on federal drug trafficking charges. It was an all-too-familiar story for a young man...
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The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Claire WeekesThe true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionized how we see the defining problem of our era: anxiety. Panic, depression, sorrow, guilt, disgrace, obsession, sleeplessness, low confidence, loneliness, agoraphobia...The international bestseller Hope and Help for Your Nerves, first published in 1962 and...
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Fighting for Change: Andrew Yang's Path Forward"During these dark times when increasing reports of AAPI Hate are escalating, Fighting for Change: Andrew Yang's Path Forward provides a bright light. Yang has taken the Asian-American community forward by stepping front and center in the fight against exclusion. He continues to work...
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Female Force: Amy Coney BarrettWife. Mother. Professor. Clerk. Judge. Few people are as accomplished as Amy Coney Barrett. A law professor and protege of Antonin Scalia, Amy Coney Barrett's controversial nomination to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court put religion's effect on public policy in the...
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Saint Giuseppe Moscati: Doctor of the PoorThis is the compelling and inspirational true story of a twentieth-century doctor and saint. Giuseppe Moscati, born of an aristocratic family in Naples, Italy, devoted his medical career to serving the poor. He was also a medical school professor and a pioneer in the...
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It's Her Story Rosalind Franklin: A Graphic NovelA graphic novel for children ages 7 to 10. Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist during the 1940s and 1950s, when few women worked in the sciences. During WWII, she expanded our knowledge of the physics of coal and carbon, and later she studied...
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A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in BetweenAward-winning songwriter Linda Thompson breaks her silence, sharing the extraordinary story of her life, career, and epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American superstars--Elvis Presley and Bruce JennerFor the last forty years, award-winning songwriter Linda Thompson has quietly led...
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Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin: One Woman's Remarkable Escape from Nazi GermanyThe peaceful farm life of a teenage girl in Germany is abruptly upended when WWII comes knocking at her family's door. One month before her sixteenth birthday, Mildred "Mickchen" Schindler and her family are captured by Russian Soldiers. Having already survived life in Hitler's...
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The Beatles in Comics!This volume explores the complete illustrated story of the Beatles from their formation, through the Beatlemania phenomenon, all the way through their breakup. Readers see how the band evolved and amplifed the uproar of the sixties, became politically and socially active, and achieved a...
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Annapurna: A Woman's PlaceIn August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the first Americans--and the first women--to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world's tenth highest peak. Expedition leader Arlene Blum here tells their dramatic story: the...
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Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports (Revised)A new edition of a sports icon's memoir, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kathrine Switzer's historic running of the Boston Marathon as the first woman to run. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male...
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Patton: Genius for War, a"Biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. Mr. D'Este's Patton takes its rightful place as the definitive biography of this American warrior." --Dallas Morning NewsA comprehensive biography of General George Patton draws on hitherto unavailable letters,...
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William Wilberforce: His Unpublished Spiritual JournalsThese spiritual journals will give readers insight into the heart and mind of one of Britain's leading abolitionists. William Wilberforce (1759-1833) is best remembered as a leading figure in the movement to have the slave trade abolished throughout the British Empire. He was a...
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Te Ata: Chickasaw Storyteller, American Treasure Collector's EditionMary Frances Thompson Fisher, known by her stage name Te Ata, became the first person declared an "Oklahoma Treasure" in 1987. The distinction was conferred in recognition of sixty years of performances and storytelling that unfolded American Indian folklore and culture before a range...
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One Story, One SongA new collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the best-selling One Native Life Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese's One Native Life. "In quiet tones and luminous language," wrote the Winnipeg Free Press,...
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Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed AmericanCommemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass's birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this "tour de force" (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century audience. From these pages--which include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as...
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UnashamedIf you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from their rejection. Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity--childhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Along the...
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Political Power: George H. W. BushThis is the story of George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States. Overshadowed by the titanic personalities of his predecessor, his successor and his own son, TidalWave comics takes an insightful look at the incredibly rich and impactful life of this...
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