Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Consequential Truths: On Writing the Lived LifeConsequential Truths: On Writing the Lived Life takes a deep look at the profound questions facing the memoir writer. How do we write with power and integrity about the others in our lives? What do experimentations in form-the braid, the collage, the prose poem,...
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Nebraska RootsIn Nebraska Roots, Leah Lambert presents the story of her own evolution from sheltered child to self-aware young woman.Throughout the book, Lambert weaves in historical references along with some ghostly encounters. She depicts a childhood in the 1950s where her education happened in a...
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The Beginning of LeavingElsa Valmidiano's The Beginning of Leaving is a hybrid collection of journalistic prose and lyrical essays, weaving a personal examination of how leaving not only reflects a picture of immigration and the diaspora, but how migration through generations compels any individual to honor the...
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160 Black Women in HorrorThis book was initially compiled in honor of Black Women in Horror during February (Black History Month) and March (Women in History Month) and is an extension of a series that started out as a project for Women in Horror Month back in February...
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Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members"More fine stories than you can count" - Greil Marcus Collecting over 40 original, in-depth interviews, Pledging My Time is the first look at Bob Dylan's career entirely from the perspective of the musicians standing a few feet away from him on stage -...
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To Walk a Crooked MileThis story has been inside for some sixty-three years and has now been poured out onto the pages of this small but powerful book. Read as you will see that God had a great plan for this author to write each word with power...
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Unto the Breach2ND EDITION: Unto the Breach is a chronological and semi-biographical collection of poetry, essays, and short stories by Hannah Wilkinson. Writings explore a variety of themes from the bold exploration of youth to the biting pleasure of love to the systematic paralysis of mental...
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Greed: Lifestyles Of People with Money & Who Want MoreRicky (RickyB) Bickham is a music artist/writer from New Orleans, LA, who dives into the realities of listeners over the city's signature brass and percussion sounds, creating feel-good music filled with memories of its unique culture.After years of penning music, he decided to explore...
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Confined by my circumstances: Taught by the Holy Spirit within me while on my Sabbatical/Federal PrisonConfined By My Circumstances daily meditation inspiration and affirmations book, was birth while on my sabbatical/federal prison. I journal practically every day while on this journey, now I AMintroducing you to my pain, joy, laughter, tears, loneliness, fears, love, support, abandonment and neglect. My...
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Our Unlikely Fathers: The Signers of the Texas Declaration of IndependenceA Quebecer, a Scot, an Englishman, an Irishman, some Yankees, some Southern gents, a couple of Tejanos...listening to the duelling accents alone would have been well worth the price of admission. Some had led the quiet lives of family men. Others were known for...
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Lance: A Spirit UnbrokenMarley meets... Cujo ? What would you do if there was a dog in your neighborhood forced to live outside day in/ day out, at the mercy of abusers, wild animals and brutal weather?Walter does nothing--at first. Then, an accidental meeting with Lance, a...
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Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War: The True Story of How a Communist Spy Team, Government Hoodlums and Sick Psychiatrists Destroyed Sexual Science and CoWilhelm Reich (1897-1957), his colleagues, and his antagonists, are among the most influential groups of people of the 20th century. As a part of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic movement in Vienna, Reich is hailed as an innovator. His later work in the United States brought...
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Get Carter: Backstage in History from JFK's Assassination to the Rolling StonesFor most of his life, Bill Carter has been hearing two words that either struck fear in his heart or caused it to race for an entirely different reason: Get Carter. Early in his career, this Arkansas maverick established himself as the "go-to guy"...
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Simon Girty: Turncoat HeroSimon Girty Turncoat Hero: The Most Hated Man on the Early American Frontier by Phillip W. Hoffman The subject of this panoramic biography is one of the most mysterious, misunderstood icons of early American history. Simon Girty was a sharp-witted, rascally, many-tongued frontiersman whose...
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Great for God: Missionaries Who Changed the WorldIt only takes one courageous life to change the world......what about you An inspiring number of biographical accounts from some of history's greatest missionaries like David Livingstone who answered God's challenge to impact the world. Taking the message of Christ and salvation to the...
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Abandonment in Dixie: Underdevelopment in the Black BeltThe Black Belt region has been described as America's Third World. Although this region has been defined historically by eminent scholars such as W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, and Arthur Raper, a new twenty-first century definition is needed to address current conditions within the...
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The Quaker Sergeant's War: The Civil War Diary of Sergeant David M. HaworthThe Civil War posed a dilemma for American Quakers, who abhorred slavery as much as they hated violence. Fighting for the Confederacy was unthinkable. The situation for the citizens of East Tennessee--most of whom voted against secession--was especially vexed. Faced with conscription into the...
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On Becoming an ArchitectA vivid memory and sharp focus on sensory detail--particularly sights, sounds, emotions--enable Frank Welch to narrate the extraordinary story of his life with great richness and insight. From his boyhood in Sherman, Texas, through his education at Texas A&M in the 1950s and his...
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Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan CommunitiesFrom Aabec in Antrim County to Zutphen in Ottawa County, from Hell to Hooker, Michigan Place Names is a compendium of information on the origins of the state's geographical names. With alphabetically arranged thumb-nail sketches, Walter Romig introduces readers to a host of colorful...
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The Cart That Changed the World: The Career of Sylvan N. GoldmanFrom his birth in Ardmore, Indian Territory, in 1898, the life of Sylvan Nathan Goldman (1898-1984) spans almost the entirety of Oklahoma's modern history. He stands as a symbol of America's twentieth-century pioneers, the developers of the business frontier of the state and the...
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