Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All ThreeINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time, Dawn Staley shares powerful and inspiring stories that have shaped her journey on and off the court. A three-time Olympic gold medalist, six-time WNBA All-Star, and the first person to win the Naismith College Player...
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Sam Walton, Made in America: My StoryIn this "sure-fire all-American success story" (The New York Times Book Review), the founder of Wal-Mart describes the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to build the largest retailer in the world. "[A] wise and inspiring autobiography--Walton tells his quietly fantastic story with...
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Persepolis: The Story of a ChildhoodNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. "A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and...
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Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless CraftsmanTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece. Wit's End isn't just a state of mind. It's the name of a gravel road,...
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Sun and SteelIn this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them.At one level, it...
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Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative LifeINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith distills creativity and the craft of writing with a practical guide perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird. Drawing from her twenty years of teaching...
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The Glass Castle: A MemoirTHE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world's most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a...
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX - A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one of...
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Nuts! A 101st Airborne Division Machine Gunner at BastogneAuthor: Vincent J. SperanzaPublisher: Vincent J. SperanzaPublished: 11/11/2014Pages: 244Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51dISBN: 9781941165515
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Jfk: Public, Private, SecretTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF AMAZON EDITORS' BEST BOOKS OF JULY From the New York Times bestselling Kennedy historian and author of Jackie: Public, Private, Secret comes the other side of the story--her husband's: JFK: Public, Private, Secret. In this definitive...
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Just Kids: An AutobiographyWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"Reading rocker Smith's account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it's hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter that threw them together, allowing both to blossom? Quirky and spellbinding." -- People It...
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Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White HouseINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER"Brutal." --Huffington Post"Scathing." --New York Post"[D]epicts Biden's decline in vivid detail." --Politico"So many revelations." --Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe"Bombshell." --Jesse Watters, host of FOX's Jesse Watters PrimetimeThe authors of the #1 New York...
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary UnderbellyAn updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original editionAlmost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat before You Read This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no...
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On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's SportsInstant New York Times Bestseller! A news-making and electrifying portrait of sports phenomenon Caitlin Clark, whose dramatic ascendance in college basketball and now in the WNBA has captured the attention of media and fans unlike any other female team-sport athlete in history--by award-winning USA...
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A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon* Winner of the 2024 National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature * Winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Air Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, and Financial Times...
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Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of NatureNATIONAL BESTSELLER "An antidote to the loneliness of our species."--ROBIN WALL KIMMERER"A master class in how to love the world."--MARGARET RENKLA thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible.Growing up, Patricia...
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The Book of Sheen: A MemoirFor the first time, Charlie Sheen, the star of Platoon, Wall Street, Major League, and Two and a Half Men, writes the story of his extraordinary life in an unfiltered memoir. "We can live the stories or hear about them later from others. I...
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds HistoryThe bestselling first installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker) - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - One of Variety's "Banned...
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Brown Girl DreamingNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The acclaimed author of Red at the Bone tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing poems. A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK - WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING BOOK AWARD - A KIRKUS...
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Making It Big: Lessons from a Life in BusinessFEMI OTEDOLA is one of Africa's greatest philanthropists. The self-made entrepreneur and Forbes-rated billionaire dreamt of his first business before he was ten years old and made his first billion by the age of 41. Part business book, part memoir, this book charts Otedola's...
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