Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Before They Were Authors: Famous Writers as KidsThis exciting debut in graphic novel format tells the childhood stories of literary legends including Maya Angelou, Roald Dahl, and Sandra Cisnernos. Perfect for fans of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls and Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World. What makes a writer?...
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Great Lives in Graphics: Jane AustenGreat Lives in Graphics: Jane Austen is a graphic retelling of Jane's story which gives children a colorful snapshot of her life and the world she grew up in, while educating them on everything from Regency culture to the wonders of storytelling.You may already...
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What Happened"An engaging, beautifully synthesized page-turner" (Slate). The #1 New York Times bestseller and Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year: Hillary Rodham Clinton's most personal memoir yet, about the 2016 presidential election. In this "candid and blackly funny" (The New York Times) memoir, Hillary...
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Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's SniperThe wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England and America.In June 1941,...
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Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude CahunOffering some of Cahun's writings never before translated into English alongside a wide array of her artworks and those of her contemporaries, this book is a must-have for any fan of this iconic artist, now in paperback. In the turmoil of the 1920s and...
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I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom's Highway"A biography that will send readers back to the music of Mavis and the Staple Singers with deepened appreciation and a renewed spirit of discovery" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)--from the acclaimed music journalist and author featured prominently in the new HBO documentary Mavis!This is...
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The Widow SpyThe Widow Spy is the first hand account of a true Cold War spy operation in Moscow, told exclusively by the CIA case offiicer who lived this experience. She was one of the first women to be assigned to Moscow, a very difficult operational...
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Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John ColtraneYoung John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as a musician. Carole Boston...
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Hero Tales: A Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Christian HeroesIn this beautifully illustrated treasury, Dave and Neta Jackson present the true-life stories of fifteen key Christian heroes. Each hero is profiled in a short biography and three educational yet exciting and thought-provoking anecdotes from his or her life. Ideal for family devotions, homeschooling,...
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Great Lives in Graphics: Stephen HawkingGreat Lives in Graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolor, presenting 250+ fascinating facts in a new and exciting way. Using bright infographics, this book presents over 250 facts about Stephen Hawking, the world-famous theoretical physicist and cosmologist and author of...
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Give Me This Mountain'Give Me This Mountain' is the autobiography of Dr. Helen Roseveare, well-known missionary doctor and author. She worked in the north-eastern province of the Belgian Congo with the Heart of Africa Mission in the 1950's and 60's. Physical dangers and her personal ambition in...
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Epic Athletes: Kevin DurantIn Epic Athletes: Kevin Durant, award-winning sports journalist Dan Wetzel tells the inspirational true-life story of an NBA superstar in this thrilling biography for young readers Featuring comic-style illustrations by Marcelo Baez In 2016, Kevin Durant shocked the basketball world when he decided to...
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A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam MemoirThe 40th anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir--featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick--with a new foreword by Kevin Powers In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground...
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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a PhotographerThe definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs.Diane Arbus brings to life the full story...
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Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964Author: Paul Genoni, Tanya DalziellPublisher: Monash University PublishingPublished: 11/05/2018Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.00dISBN: 9781925523096About the AuthorPaul Genoni works with the School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts at Curtin University. Tanya Dalziell works in English and Cultural Studies at...
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Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus StoryFinalist for the Track and Field Writers of America's 2018 Armory Foundation Book AwardTyus proves as winning a storyteller as she was a runner...The 'a' in Wyomia is silent, but thankfully, the woman who owns that name is not.--New York Times Book ReviewTigerbelle offers...
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe inThe New York Times Best Seller When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a "fringe" campaign, something not to be taken seriously. After all, he was just an Independent senator...
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Paul Farmer: Servant to the PoorBill Gates has called Paul Farmer one of the most amazing people he has ever met. CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta says that "if pure altruism exists in humans, it probably looks a lot like Dr. Paul Farmer."In Paul Farmer, Servant to the...
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Martin Luther: Renegade and ProphetFrom "one of the best of the new Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the complicated founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. "Magnificent."--The Wall Street Journal "Penetrating."--The...
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Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of MiraclesNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "In this dramatic page-turner, Raymond Arroyo has captured the life and lessons of Mother Angelica, a woman who may well be the patron saint of CEOs."--Lee Iacocca, The Iacocca Family Foundation, former CEO of the Chrysler Corporation In 1981,...
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