Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Lincoln Beachey: The Man Who Owned the SkyLincoln Beachey is the Forgotten Father of Aerobatics, who invented 'trick flying', who had a fiancee in scores of American cities, who was called 'the eighth wonder of the world', whose iconoclastic story will rewrite a bit of American history. StunningAuthor: Frank MarreroPublisher: Tripod...
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Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our FutureIf you feel discouraged in your efforts to reflect Christ each day in our broken world, the saints can help. Especially the ones whose stories Chris Armstrong tells here, because he's chosen them for the ways they've inspired him and deepened his own faith....
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Hurt RoadThird Day guitarist Mark Lee is no stranger to heartache and hopes deferred; the road to success is never traveled without missteps along the way. Life is messy and uncertain and full of surprises. And one of the best things he's ever done is...
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Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life Outside the BoxA must-have collection for comics fans and creators everywhere, packed with interviews and original comics by today's foremost graphic novelists. Respected anthologist Leonard S. Marcus turns his literary microscope to the world of comics, which has lately morphed and matured at a furious pace....
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American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked.Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connections to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Over the two hundred-plus years that separate us, these connections are...
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Benedict Arnold: American Hero and TraitorA biography telling the life of Benedict Arnold, the man who betrayed his country and became known as a traitor. Written in graphic-novel format.Author: Terry Beatty, Michael BurganPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.90w x 0.13dISBN: 9780736879064Audience: 08 - 14Accelerated...
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Ada and the Number-Crunching MachineThis is Ada. Although she might look like an ordinary little girl, she's about to change the world. Augusta Ada Byron, better known as Ada Lovelace, is an inquisitive child. Like her clever mother, she loves solving problems--big problems, little problems, and tricky, complicated...
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Florence Kelley and the Children: Factory Inspector in 1890s Chicago"This book documents and explores an important time in US history, and does so with a depth and intelligence that make it irresistibly compelling." -Scott Turow, author, Presumed Innocent A new book by a Northwestern University School of Law scholar aims to fill in...
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Lives of MuhammadRecent outbursts sparked by a viral video and controversial cartoons powerfully illustrate the passions and sensitivities that continue to surround the depiction of the seventh-century founder of Islam. The Lives of Muhammad delves into the many ways the Prophet's life story has been told...
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The Beatles (Revised Edition) (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) (Library Edition)Meet the Beatles Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the works of renowned composers, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information for readers (Ages 8-9).Author:...
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Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. AdamsFrom the author of Mind and Matter, an intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of...
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Power and the Idealists: Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer, and Its AftermathThe student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, thirty-five years later, many in that radical generation had come...
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Texas Rich: The Hunt Dynasty, from the Early Oil Days Through the Silver CrashThis book is the true story of H. L. Hunt and family. It is not an authorized biography. However, in the course of researching the book and the Texas Monthly and Playboy articles which preceded it, the author was able to interview members of...
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Menasseh Ben Israel: Rabbi of AmsterdamFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in...
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Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving PicturesFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant portrait of Ben Hecht, one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters "Adina Hoffman's superb [book] . . . loads Hecht's staggering contradictions into a compact but abounding two hundred twenty pages. . . ....
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Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American TenorPerforming in a country rife with racism and segregation, the tenor Roland Hayes was the first African American man to reach international fame as a concert performer and one of the few artists who could sell out Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall, and...
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Theodora: Actress, Empress, SaintTwo of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings...
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Theodor Geisel: A Portrait of the Man Who Became Dr. SeussDr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat and the Hat, these and other classics have...
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Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah VaughanQueen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and a pioneer of women's and civil rightsSarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad...
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Her Again: Becoming Meryl StreepA portrait of a woman, an era, and a profession: the first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep--the "Iron Lady" of acting, nominated for nineteen Oscars and winner of three--that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism,...
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