Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Bandit Heaven: The Hole-In-The-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild WestFrom multiple New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin comes the thrilling true story of the most infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of all time--and the lawmen tasked with rooting them out. Robbers Roost, Brown's Hole, and Hole-in-the-Wall were three hideouts that...
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Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'n' Roll SurvivorA rock 'n roll classic, back in print, updated and revised. One of the funniest rock memoirs ever, Al Kooper's legendary Backstage Passes is available again! Al's quirky life, from would-be teenage rocker, to crashing Bob Dylan's recording session and playing the organ on...
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A Walk Among HeroesAuthor: Gary B. ZelinskiPublisher: Blue Hexagon PublishingPublished: 05/01/2025Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.63dISBN: 9781963954104
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A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree ElderWinner of Canada Reads 2025 From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community, Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social and economic legacies of colonialism. As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual...
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Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear BombMeet the female scientists who served as both developers of the atomic bomb--and the first line of criticism against it--in this nonfiction narrative in the tradition of Bomb and Code Girls. They were leaning over the edge of the unknown and afraid of what...
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A Stranger at Home: A True StoryTraveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It's been two years since her parents delivered her to the school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. Coming ashore, Margaret spots her family, but...
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A Stolen Life: A MemoirAn instant #1 New York Times bestseller--Jaycee Dugard's raw and powerful memoir, her own story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years. In the summer of June of 1991, I was a normal kid. I did normal things....
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A Sound So Very Loud: The Inside Story of Every Song Oasis RecordedThe first definitive history of the iconic band Oasis, as told through their music and using their songs as the starting point. A Sound So Very Loud is the first book to offer a definitive history of Oasis as narrated through their music, using...
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Apparently: This Is What Parenting Feels LikeIn this rollicking and poignant narrative about the beauty and mess of everyday parenting life in all its stages, readers are immersed in stories that reflect pieces of their own lives-perfect for fans of Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions and Jennifer Senior's All Joy and...
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A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's DisabledThe rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind America's first public school for mentally disabled peopleFrom the moment he became superintendent of the nation's oldest public school for intellectually and developmentally disabled children in 1887 until his death in 1924, Dr. Walter E....
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Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story"Among the Bros is a harrowing and disturbing book. I have read about fraternity life but nothing like this. This book will blow your mind, each page digging deeper into the unimaginable. Except every word is true."--Buzz Bissinger, #1 New York Times bestselling author...
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A Million Miles: My Peace Corps JourneyWhen Jody Olsen enlisted as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia in 1966, she was fleeing familial tragedy and the stifling societal norms of her Salt Lake City upbringing. However, her service in Tunisia upended her religious and cultural beliefs and propelled her into...
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review).Between 1785 and...
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk RoadNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom--and almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a...
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of ApartheidWinner of the 2024 Templeton Prize"The story of an almost unimaginable dialogue...an exploration of evil, innocence, and the gray spaces in between."--New York Times"A startlingly personal account...written with clarity, energy, and enormous empathy"--Washington PostA Mariner Books ClassicPumla Gobodo-Madikizela, internationally reknowned for her understanding of...
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Pulitzer Prize FinalistNATIONAL BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - A "A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book" (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and narrative. - From the bestselling author of The Circle.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of...
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A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James SchuylerThe long-awaited biography of the mercurial, troubled, brilliant poet James Schuyler, the Pulitzer Prize winner who helped shape the New York School of poetry in the 1960s.Nathan Kernan's A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the definitive biography of the...
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A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of RedemptionThe powerful, dramatic story of how a successful Hollywood set designer whose identity was deeply rooted in his homosexuality came to be suddenly and utterly transformed by the power of the gospel.When Becket Cook moved from Dallas to Los Angeles after college, he discovered...
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A Burst of Light: and Other Essays"Lorde's words - on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice - burn with relevance 25 years after her death." - O, The Oprah MagazineWinner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities...
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Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d'hotel who manned the front of the room in New York City's hottest and most in-demand restaurants. From the glamorous to the entitled, from royalty to the financially ruined, everyone who wanted to be seen--or just...
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