Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Expositions and DevelopmentsThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Alfred Kroeber: A Personal ConfigurationThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the EmpireThis monumental biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the twentieth century, written by his grandson, is the first to give a complete and balanced account of Mahatma Gandhi's remarkable life, the development of his beliefs and his political campaigns, and his...
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Kindness of Strangers PBThis is the first complete, critical biography of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), one of America's finest playwrights and the author of (among many important works) The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, and...
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Secret Diary of a Call GirlThis internationally celebrated memoir is now a new Showtime original series. Belle couldn't find a job after University. Her impressive degree was not paying her rent or buying her food. But after a fantastic threesome with a very rich couple who gave her a...
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Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and DenmarkThis engaging volume was pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime. Difficult to categorize, it is both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of her personal and political selves. Wollstonecraft set out for Scandinavia just two weeks after her...
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American Slaves Tell Their Stories: Six InterviewsThis collection of enthralling personal narratives vivifies life during and just after the era of slavery in the United States. First published 25 years after the Civil War ended, the volume was the work of an educated African-American woman who became the voice of...
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Jean Renoir PBThis classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director; Andr Bazin, the outstanding French film critic and theorist; and Fran ois Truffaut, the pioneer of la nouvelle...
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Diane Franklin: The Excellent Adventures of the Last American, French-Exchange Babe of the 80sThis book follows the excellent acting career of 80s teen star Diane Franklin, revealing how she became the most "excellent babe" of the 80sAuthor: Savage Steve Holland, Diane FranklinPublisher: Diane FranklinPublished: 08/02/2012Pages: 134Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.29dISBN: 9780615641362About the AuthorDiane...
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Heraclius, Emperor of ByzantiumThis book evaluates the life and empire of the pivotal yet controversial Byzantine emperor Heraclius (ad. 610-641), a contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad. His stormy war-torn reign is critical for understanding the background to fundamental changes in the Balkans and the Middle East, including...
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Manhasset Stories: A Baby Boomer Looks BackThese are the stories of a small town that grew up alongside the Baby Boomers who roamed its streets and wrote their own legends upon them. They are stories about the birthrights, beaches and bars of a few lucky generations.Author: Suzanne McLain RosenwasserPublisher: Manhasset...
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The Wanderings of an Elephant HunterThe Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter is the story of Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell, a famous big game hunter in East Africa. 'Karamojo Bell, ' as he was known, devised many original techniques to seek out and capture his quarry, including a difficult rifle...
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War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a Time of UnrestThe Vietnam War . . . Nixon . . . Kent State . . . The late 1960s and early 1970s were a time of total turmoil in America-the country was being torn apart by a war most people didn't support, young men were...
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Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?The truly inspiring story of the first Latina Supreme Court Justice. Outspoken, energetic, and fun, Sonia Sotomayor has managed to turn every struggle in life into a triumph. Born in the Bronx to immigrant parents from Puerto Rico, Sonia found out at age nine...
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I, Willie SuttonThe story of Willie Sutton is one of the most astonishing in the annals of crime. Known as 'Willie the Actor' for his clever and disarming impersonations, his career was an amazingly successful one of fabulous bank robberies, daring prison breaks, and front page...
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Letters of Virginia Woolf 1932-1935The penultimate volume of Woolf's letters, when the author was between the ages of 50 and 53, covers the composition of the Years and the death of Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry. "Her wit flashes, often unexpectedly, in letters of almost every kind" (New...
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Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince BillyThe man who acts under the name Will Oldham and sings and composes under the name Bonnie "Prince" Billy has, over the past quarter-century, made an idiosyncratic journey through, and an indelible mark on, the worlds of indie rock and independent cinema. These conversations...
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Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final YearsThe last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were--lived in the shadow of deception...
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Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio ComedyThe king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an innovative producer, Benny, with his radio writers, developed a weekly situation comedy...
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The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar EliteThe Jasons are a well-guarded group of world-class scientists, briefly outed in the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, who have been meeting every summer since 1960 to tackle classified problems that the Defense Department cannot solve. Among many stunning innovations, they helped invent...
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