Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored EditionErnest Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most enduring works. Since Hemingway's personal...
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American Bulk: Essays on ExcessIn a series of deeply personal essays, Mester explores how the things we buy, eat, amass, and discard become an intimate part of our lives. We guiltily watch Amazon boxes pile up on the porch, wade through endless reviews to find the perfect product,...
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All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MeNew York Times bestseller Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the Financial Times, the New York Post, Book Riot, and The Sunday Times (London). An "exquisite" (The Washington Post) "hauntingly beautiful" (Associated Press) portrait of...
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All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters TodayFinalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardUSA Today Bestseller"All in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about women's bodies with all the narrative propulsion of a medical thriller, Comen has written a must-read, compelling,...
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A Line Can Go Anywhere: The Brilliant, Resilient Life of Artist Ruth AsawaA sweeping picture book biography about influential Japanese-American sculptor Aiko Ruth Asawa and her childhood spent in an incarceration camp, by award-winning author Caroline McAlister and rising star artist Jamie Green. Growing up on a dusty farm in Southern California, Ruth Aiko Asawa lived...
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Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka Con La Papa: Join the Quest with Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato ExpertWhat can a potato do? To Peruvian scientist Alberto Salas, they have the power to change the world. Go on the hunt with Alberto for for wild potatoes before they go extinct in this playful picture book biography, gorgeously illustrated by Caldecott-honoree Juana Martinez-Neal....
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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and DyingA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CRITICS' TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR "In its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live" (The New York Times). Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer...
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A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being NumbNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of High Achiever chronicles life after addiction--the raw, the dark, and the hilarious--from setting out with nothing but a backpack to discovering her marriage was built on a shakier foundation than she'd ever imagined to staying...
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Ablaze: The Story of America's First Female SmokejumperA lyrical and empowering biography on Deanne Shulman, America's first female smokejumper. Deanne loved being outdoors. With her family, she spent summers sailing the Salton Sea and backpacking the Sierra Nevada Mountains. As she grew older, her love of nature only grew. So when...
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A Banquet for Cecilia: How Cecilia Chiang Revolutionized Chinese Food in AmericaRelish in the savory, tangy, and sometimes spicy dishes of Cecilia Chiang, a revolutionary who changed the way Americans viewed Chinese food. From an early age, Cecilia Chiang could be found delighting in the sounds and smells from her favorite room in her home--the...
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A Beginner's Guide to DyingINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Lessons for all of us in how to approach life--from someone in the process of dying. - "Simon Boas was a gifted storyteller with a rare ability to find humor and humanity in life's most profound moments. A Beginner's Guide to...
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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of CoolThe National Bestseller - One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year "A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date." --Los Angeles Times From the author...
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Compassion in the Court: Life-Changing Stories from America's Nicest JudgeJudge Frank Caprio, "the Nicest Judge in the World," brings to the page the same wisdom and spirit of decency that millions of fans have come to treasure. In his four-time Emmy-nominated show Caught in Providence, Judge Frank Caprio's courtroom became a worldwide beacon...
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Still Bobbi: A Master Class in Leading an Authentic Life"She didn't just change how people wear makeup--she changed how they see themselves" (Charlamagne tha God, for the Time 100 Most Influential People list). Bobbi Brown, beauty mogul and visionary, opens up in her first memoir about the true story: reinvention, resilience, and the...
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Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American WestIn the exhilarating spirit of Wild and A Walk in the Park, an adventure-filled memoir of one woman's struggle to succeed as a wildland firefighter on an elite, male-dominated crew as they battle some of the fiercest wildfires in the West. When Kelly Ramsey...
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Little Book of Louis Vuitton: The Story of the Iconic Fashion HouseLittle Book of Louis Vuitton is the pocket-sized and fully illustrated story of one of the world's most luxurious fashion houses. Louis Vuitton's monogrammed bags have been seen on the arms of celebrities and royals alike for over 150 years. From the young Louis...
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I Am Not Your Enemy: A MemoirThe story of a patriot who dreamed of serving her country--and was nearly destroyed by it.Reality Winner was a twenty-five-year-old translator for the NSA when she read a classified document revealing what she assumed would make headlines during a time of unprecedented leaking: After...
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Food for Hope: How John Van Hengel Invented Food Banks for the HungryHunger continues to be an international problem. This true story of how one ordinary person did something extraordinary shows how everyone can do something to make a difference. Readers will feel encouraged to find their own way to make a difference. Real life experience...
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Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of DenaliThe gripping story of a group of female adventurers and their treacherous pioneering ascent of Denali. Excerpted in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and Men's Journal, and named one of the most noteworthy books of the month by the Washington Post Cassidy Randall draws on...
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Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant UnderbellyTown & Country's Best Books of Spring 2025 Kirkus Reviews's Most Anticipated Nonfiction of Spring 2025 Amazon's Best Books of the Month American Writers Museum's Staff Picks What happens when a career you love doesn't love you back? As Hannah Selinger will tell you,...
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