Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
-
Comin' Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, Or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the WheelA who's who of American popular music fills this lively memoir, in which Ray Benson recalls how a Philadelphia Jewish hippie and his bandmates in Asleep at the Wheel turned on generations of rock and country fans to Bob Wills-style Western swing. A six-foot-seven-inch...
- HK$515.46
- HK$515.46
- Unit price
- per
-
Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, 1820-1887Jim Nichols was a lively, vigorous frontiersman who came to Texas about the time of its Revolution. As with many men of that day, Nichols' formal education was lacking, but he was a born writer with a vivid way of saying things. He had...
- HK$326.19
- HK$326.19
- Unit price
- per
-
Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins: A Memoir with RecipesYou probably knew Molly Ivins as an unabashed civil libertarian who used her rapier wit and good ole Texas horse sense to excoriate political figures she deemed unworthy of our trust and respect. But did you also know that Molly was one helluva cook?...
- HK$242.81
- HK$242.81
- Unit price
- per
-
For Glory and Bolívar: The Remarkable Life of Manuela SáenzShe was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simón Bolívar and, after her death, a nationalist icon in her own right. Yet authors generally have chosen either to romanticize Manuela Sáenz or to discount her altogether. For Glory and...
- HK$516.47
- HK$516.47
- Unit price
- per
-
Santiago's Children: What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in ChileRunner-up, Bronze Medal, Independent Publishers Book Awards: Memoir/Autobiography Category, 2009Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create...
- HK$325.48
- HK$325.48
- Unit price
- per
-
Touching the RockTouching the Rock is a unique exploration of that distant, infinitely strange 'other world' of blindness. John Hull writes of odd sounds and echoes, of people without faces, of a curious new relationship between waking and dreaming, of a changed perception of nature and...
- HK$312.98
- HK$312.98
- Unit price
- per
-
The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of SchizophreniaAgainst the starkly beautiful backdrop of Anchorage, Alaska, where she grew up, Marin Sardy weaves an extraordinarily affecting, fiercely intelligent account of the shapeless thief--the schizophrenia--that kept her mother immersed in a world of private delusion and later also manifested in her brother, ultimately...
- HK$258.79
- HK$258.79
- Unit price
- per
-
The World Odyssey of a Balinese Prince**Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner** The true story of a prince from Bali, whose fascinating life was shaped by uncommon events and exotic places. Born in 1919, Prince Made Djelantik witnessed pivotal moments of history: the twilight of a feudal age, the Second World...
- HK$208.53
- HK$208.53
- Unit price
- per
-
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information AgeThe career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers that sparked the information age.A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) would go like this:...
- HK$651.26
- HK$651.26
- Unit price
- per
-
Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade"The entries not only illuminate the career of a remarkable woman, but yield insights into the early industrial system of the 1830s and 1840s." --Library JournalA child of both the French and Industrial revolutions, Flora Tristan (1803-1844) became a bold social critic and political...
- HK$413.19
- HK$413.19
- Unit price
- per
-
Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family SagaA daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more...
- HK$379.77
- HK$379.77
- Unit price
- per
-
Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making MagazinesFor more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of magazine journalism. In Mag Men, Bernard and Glaser recount their storied careers, offering insiders' perspective on some of the most iconic design work of the twentieth century. The authors...
- HK$161.25
- HK$161.25
- Unit price
- per
-
The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: Advice for Young ScientistsIn The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize, Doherty recounts his unlikely path to becoming a Nobel Laureate. Beginning with his humble origins in Australia, he tells how he developed an interest in immunology and describes his award-winning, influential work with Rolf Zinkernagel...
- HK$325.48
- HK$325.48
- Unit price
- per
-
Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records StoryIt started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge, in the heart of Chicago's South Side, and was overwhelmed by the joyous, raw Chicago blues of Hound...
- HK$304.46
- HK$304.46
- Unit price
- per
-
To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony PowellTo earn the reputation of a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell, and Greene is no mean feat. To do so with the grace and genius that characterized Anthony Powell--whose twelve-volume A Dance to the Music of Time is possibly the only...
- HK$598.13
- HK$598.13
- Unit price
- per
-
Undertones of War"I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror But on a closer study I realized that the apparition...
- HK$182.63
- HK$182.63
- Unit price
- per
-
The Price of Protecting Others: A memoir of a country cop, and the impact on himself, and his familyThe police force, no matter what state or country you live, is the same. They see and do things that no civilian person understands: blood, guts, physical violence and pushing your limits of mental, physical, and spiritual endurance. In the end these stressors can...
- HK$330.22
- HK$330.22
- Unit price
- per
-
Keynes: A Very Short IntroductionJohn Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is a central thinker of the twentieth century, not just an economic theorist and statesman, but also an important figure in economics, philosophy, politics, and culture. In this Very Short Introduction Lord Skidelsky, a renowned biographer of Keynes, explores his...
- HK$155.81
- HK$155.81
- Unit price
- per
-
My Life"Men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law."--Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow artist Benvenuto Cellini was beloved in Renaissance Florence. A renowned sculptor and goldsmith whose works include the famous salt-cellar made...
- HK$182.02
- HK$182.02
- Unit price
- per
-
C. S. Lewis: A Very Short IntroductionBeloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C. S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as...
- HK$155.81
- HK$155.81
- Unit price
- per
