Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised DiscographyPerfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation--a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David...
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Kay's Life: The Stories of Kay ConklinKay and George Conklin walked into my office at Ohio Wesleyan University on a beautiful April morning. Kay carried a large stack of papers as her husband gave me a nervous but friendly smile. The 87-year-old woman had a determined look. "Are you John...
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Karl Lagerfeld: A Fashion HistoryAn extraordinary biography of Karl Lagerfeld, based upon a series of rare, powerful, and emotional interviews--the real story, full of inside details, that repeatedly surprises and enlightens. Ottavi enjoyed a rare degree of open and candid access to Lagerfeld in his later years, and...
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Josef Albers in MexicoAlbers in "the promised land of abstract art" the little-known influence of Mexico"Mexico is truly the promised land of abstract art," Josef Albers wrote to his former Bauhaus colleague Vasily Kandinsky in 1936. Josef Albers in Mexico reveals the profound link between the art...
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John Muir: A Miscellany"The tendency nowadays to wander in wilderness is delightful to see. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not...
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Joan Didion: What She MeansAn exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics--including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Betye Saar to Maren Hassinger, Vija Celmins and Andy WarholPublished with Hammer Museum. In...
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JFK: The Cia, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. KennedyWith an Introduction by Oliver Stone, the director of the hit movie JFK and a Foreword by Jesse Ventura, author of the New York Times Bestseller, They Killed our President, here is an insider's view of JFK, the CIA, Vietnam and the plot that...
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Jesus, My Father, the Cia, and Me: A Memoir. . . of SortsA touching memoir of life with an alcoholic father who secretly works with the CIA, a dark pilgrimage through the valley of depression and addiction, and finding a faith to redeem and a strength to forgive."This is a record of my life as I...
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I Will Do Better: A Father's Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and LoveBy turns comical and heartbreaking, I Will Do Better is the remarkable journey of two defiant and wounded people, and their personal growth in the name of love. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New Yorker and Kirkus Reviews...
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Ivey Badge 44Ivey, Badge 44 is a heartfelt tribute to a loving family man and police officer, who gave all to protect the city he loved. The aftermath would leave two families to process the effects of dealing with one of the most sinister criminals imaginable....
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Island Treasures: Growing Up in CubaThe author of My Name Is María Isabel offers an inspiring look at her childhood in Cuba in this collection that includes Where the Flame Trees Bloom, Under the Royal Palms, five new stories, and more.These true autobiographical tales from renowned Hispanic author and...
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Invisible Blackness: A Louisiana Family in the Age of Racial PassingInvisible Blackness explores the complex lives of Creoles of mixed race born in Louisiana to enslaved women and the white men who enslaved them. Individuals such as Alice Thomasson Grice forged their own identities--and often reinvented themselves--within the increasingly strict racial order of antebellum...
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Inside the Reagan White House: A Front-Row Seat to Presidential Leadership with Lessons for TodayAn inside look at the most successful president of modern times. What makes a good White House memoir? The right mix of personal stories, insight on the president, discussion of policy and historical events, and crazy, colorful anecdotes that capture the reader's attention. Inside...
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In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in HumilityA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Charming and brilliant." --Times Literary Supplement "Provocative, stimulating, wise―the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read."―Tom Holland "Bradatan, a philosopher, writes with elegance and wit, his every thought and sentence slipping smoothly into the next...I...
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and LoveNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed author of Signal Fires and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test, an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA...
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt GödelProbing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning--and brought him to the edge of madness.Author: Rebecca GoldsteinPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 02/01/2006Pages: 300Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.42w...
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I Met God in Hell: The True Story of a Rocker's Unexpected Rescue from Eternal Death Into the Arms of GodOn September 1, 2000, Tim Ehmann, a wild, thirty-five-year touring rock 'n' roll musician steeped in the underground entertainment industry, overdosed from shooting too many successive speedballs of heroin and crack. He collapsed and died in his upstairs bedroom. Within moments he found himself...
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I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy ReaganNo matter what else was going on in his life or where he was traveling to make movies, at the White House, or sometimes just across the room Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and feelings, and to...
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If You're a Kid Like Gavin: The True Story of a Young Trans ActivistA celebratory and empowering story from young trans activist Gavin Grimm, two-time Stonewall Award-winning and Newbery Honor-winning author Kyle Lukoff, and illustrator J Yang follows the true story of how a young boy stood up for himself--and made history along the way. A Publishers...
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I Am Muhammad AliThe American boxing champ and vocal civil rights activist Muhammad Ali is the 27th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8. Muhammad Ali was the leading heavyweight boxer of the 20th century and a charismatic,...
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