Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The ChairLeader: Lead Without LimitsWhen former pro football player Chris Malleo took over a broken high school program, he expected a challenge. What he didn't expect was that the person who would help rebuild it had never coached a football game and had been born with cerebral palsy....
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Sorry I Keep Crying During Sex: A MemoirA powerful, provocative, and genre-bending literary memoir that grapples with victimhood, recovery, and resilience In the before, Jesse James Rose is happy. She has a beautiful boyfriend with melty glacier eyes, she's on a euphoric journey of gender exploration, and New York City is...
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Bob Dylan: Things Have ChangedIn the wake of the recent hit biopic A Complete Unknown, this probing appreciation asks: Do the lyrics of Bob Dylan tell the true story of the ever-changing, ever-radical life and career of the Nobel Prize-winning songwriter? In a dingy windowless bungalow on the...
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Damaged People: A Memoir of Fathers and SonsThe son of renowned author Joe McGinniss--celebrated for works like The Selling of the President and true crime blockbusters Fatal Vision and Cruel Doubt--delivers a raw and deeply moving memoir that explores the complicated bonds between fathers and sons, set against a backdrop of...
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Patchwork: A Sewist's DiaryIn Patchwork, a charming and evocative sewist's diary, Maddie Ballard explores the making (and sometimes remaking) of seventeen specific garments over a period of great change in her life--from a jacket lined with the embroidered Cantonese names of her female ancestors, to a dressing...
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Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture"A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target of eugenic obsession... Gorgeously written and brilliantly researched, this book is both a warning and a wonder." -- Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of...
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Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the MicrophoneIn this first picture book in the Black Innovators series, meet the insatiably curious Jim West, who invented a vital piece of the device we all carry in our pockets--transforming how the world communicates today. Young Jim West loves to pull apart whatever electronics...
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Who Was Katherine Johnson?Read all about how a young Black girl who loved numbers grew into a brilliant mathematician who helped land the first person on the moon in this inspiring addition to the Who Was? series. From a very young age, Katherine Johnson counted everything--the number...
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Bring Me the Head of Joaquin Murrieta: The Bandit Chief Who Terrorized California and Launched the Legend of ZorroNew York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian John Boessenecker--as seen on Netflix's Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War--brings the authoritative account of one of the most notorious outlaws of the West Joaquin Murrieta's story is one for the ages. Fiercely compelling and epically...
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A Hollywood Ending: The Dreams and Drama of the Lebron LakersNBA journalist Yaron Weitzman lays out the high stakes drama happening inside the Lakers' organization as they try to juggle the warring priorities between LeBron James and the Buss family. When LeBron James signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018, it looked like...
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Who Was Vincent Van Gogh?Learn about the Dutch artist behind beloved paintings like The Starry Night, Sunflowers, and over thirty self-portraits in this fascinating biography about Vincent Van Gogh for young readers. Today, Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most famous artists of all time. During his...
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Love Johnny Carson: One Obsessive Fan's Journey to Find the Genius Behind the LegendA wildly entertaining book by one of the world's most obsessed and informed fans of TV icon Johnny Carson, setting the record straight on Carson's legacy and shining light on the personality behind the legendary comedian and talk show host Over the course of...
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of RevolutionAmerica's Founding Era reconsidered through the lives of two women as formidable as, and in some respects stronger than, the men they loved, married, and mothered. Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler, born to wealth and privilege in New York's Hudson Valley during the latter half...
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Who Was Vincent van Gogh?Learn about the Dutch artist behind beloved paintings like The Starry Night, Sunflowers, and over thirty self-portraits in this fascinating biography about Vincent Van Gogh for young readers. Today, Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most famous artists of all time. During his...
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Who Was Katherine Johnson?Read all about how a young Black girl who loved numbers grew into a brilliant mathematician who helped land the first person on the moon in this inspiring addition to the Who Was? series. From a very young age, Katherine Johnson counted everything--the number...
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Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party LinesA groundbreaking, revelatory assessment of America's broken two-party system. Rachel Maddow calls it "a brave firecracker of a book." In a country obsessed with blind loyalty to a two-party democratic system, Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House press secretary to the Biden-Harris administration, shares why...
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You Can Make This!: More Than 100 Family Favorite RecipesFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Angela Kinsey and extraordinary home chef Joshua Snyder, the couple behind the "wholesome and charming" (Mashable) Baking with Josh and Ange, this family-friendly cookbook featuring more than a hundred recipes--from festive breakfasts to decadent desserts and everything...
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Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal LifeFrom "the Internet's Mushroom Auntie," a stunning, illustrated guide to foraging and the bounties to be had, both personal and edible, in exploring the world around us and using the gifts it has to offer in our lives.Foraging is becoming increasingly popular, from TikTok...
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Winston and the Windsors: How Churchill Shaped a Royal DynastyFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Queen and Diana, a groundbreaking story of the riveting hot-and-cold relationship between the House of Windsor and Winston Churchill. From an early age, Winston Churchill was convinced that he was a man of destiny....
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Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and BelongingFrom the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, a stirring account of one woman's journey from feeling like an outsider to becoming one of the most admired religious leaders in the world Angela Buchdahl was born in Seoul, the daughter of...
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