Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945Throughout the World War II campaign in the Pacific, an ordinary seaman defied navy regulations by surreptitiously compiling a diary on scraps of paper. One of the most extraordinary personal documents to emerge from the war, James J. Fahey's diary presents a vivid picture...
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Overcoming: Stories of Leadership, Resilience, and ActionAuthor: Karen A. DaleyPublisher: SDP PublishingPublished: 11/17/2025Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33dISBN: 9798998741456About the AuthorDaley, Karen A.: - Karen A. Daley served from 2010 to 2014 as the 34th president of the American Nurses Association, the nation's largest nursing organization...
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Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11New York Times Bestseller From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those who died that others might live When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighters to investigate an odor of gas in downtown...
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Open Heart: A MemoirA profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time. Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions, images,...
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No Stars in Jefferson Park: A MemoirA Chicagoan's coming-of-age memoir finds courage in the face of immense loss In her early twenties, Maggie Andersen was a founding ensemble member of Chicago's storied Gift Theatre with her then-boyfriend, Michael Patrick Thornton. But after a series of spinal strokes left Thornton paralyzed,...
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Northwest of the World: Forty Years Trading and Hunting in Northern SiberiaNorthwest of the World, first published in 1944, is the memoir of American explorer and fur-trader Olaf Swenson (1883-1938). The book chronicles his long career in Alaska and Siberia, and provides a fascinating look into the native culture of northeastern Siberia, as well as...
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North Toward HomeWith his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country's finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change. In...
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No Name in the StreetFrom one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century--an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations around racism. "It contains truth that cannot be denied." --The Atlantic Monthly In this stunningly personal document,...
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New International Encyclopedia of Bible Characters: (Zondervan's Understand the Bible Reference Series)The New International Encyclopedia of Bible Characters is a complete index of every person named in the Bible, from Aaron to Zurishadai.Discover the roles that men and women--from the obscure to the famous to the infamous--have played in the unfolding story of Scripture. Entries...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave: With an Introductory Chapter by William H. CrogmanFirst published in 1845, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave" is an 1845 autobiographical treatise on abolition by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), an American escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker. A leading figure in the...
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My Little Donkey: And Other EssaysA collection of searching, curious, and surprising essays catalyzed by the author's move in her sixties to a small Italian village, exploring selfhood, coincidence, inheritance, and the impermanence of identity In 2021, in her mid-sixties, Martha Cooley moved with her husband from the United...
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My Broken Language: A MemoirGOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK - The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse. "Quiara Alegría...
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My Appetite for DestructionFrom Steven Adler, the original drummer for Guns N' Roses, comes My Appetite for Destruction, the inside story of GNR. Offering a different perspective from the bestselling Slash, Adler chronicles his life with the band, and own intense struggle with addiction, as seen on...
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Mother of Courage: The True Story of an Armless Dentist and Her Triumph Over TragedyMother of Courage is the inspiring true story of a young woman who loses both arms in a boating accident, yet valiantly finishes dental school, marries, raises two boys, teaches at an historically Black medical college, and becomes a nationally known advocate for people...
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Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden GeniusFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, 2024Miss May Does Not Exist, by Carrie Courogen is the riveting biography of comedian, director, actor and writer Elaine May, one of America's greatest comic geniuses. May began her career as one-half of the legendary comedy...
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Miscalculated Risks: Attacked, Crippled, Paralyzed, Drowning, Unconscious and Freezing in The Wild (Just Not All at Once)Michael Cooper was compulsively drawn to perilous places. It nearly got him killed over a half-dozen times.In its action-packed, often-comical pages, Miscalculated Risks recounts how Cooper's increasingly dangerous ventures far into wilderness landed him in dire situations: Mortally wounded in a Mexican jungle, twenty...
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Masters of the Universe: Winning Strategies of America's Greatest DealmakersMeet the men and minds that have ignited the greatest decade of deal making in the history of businessIn the 1980s Tom Wolfe coined the term "masters of the universe" for hard-charging Wall Streeters. In the '90s, that term is applied broadly to the...
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Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your NarrativeINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning, multihyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer comes the inspiring true story of her journey to understanding her genuine value. Keke Palmer thought she knew who she was. What it means to be a good person and what...
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Marshall Rogers: Brightest Days and Darkest KnightsFrom underdog to icon, Marshall Rogers helped redefine Batman for generations, inspiring readers and up-and-coming artists alike. Initially savaged by editors at DC Comics, his style was uniquely complex with vast and angular architectural design anchoring his storytelling, and it immediately caught on with...
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Marlene DietrichThe twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the landmark biography that tells the full-scale, riveting, and untold story of Marlene Dietrich.Wildly entertaining, Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother in vivid detail, evoking Dietrich the woman, her legendary career, and her world. Opening with...
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