Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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I Am My Name: A Girl's Journey to Finding Her Cree FamilyAn evocative autobiographical picture book about Cree activist Na'kuset's life as a young girl taken from her home along with thousands of other indigenous children during the 1960s, and the journey of discovery that leads her to reclaim her life and culture. I have...
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I Am Malala YousafzaiThe youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate, Pakistani women's rights activist Malala Yousafzai, is the 26th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8. Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17 for...
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I Am Jackie Robinson"We can all be heroes" is the message entertainingly told in this New York Times Bestselling picture-book biography series, with this title focusing on groundbreaking baseball player, Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. But he lived at a time before the...
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I Am a Georgia Girl: The Life of Lucille Selig Frank, 1888-1957Author: Ann HitePublisher: Mercer University PressPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 360Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.18h x 6.38w x 1.13dISBN: 9780881469981About the AuthorAnn Hite has written six novels and two nonfiction books. Her short story collection, HAINTS ON BLACK MOUNTAIN, was the bronze winner in the 2022 Foreword...
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How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never WillOne of the most distinctive and funny politicians, Senator John Kennedy (the one from Louisiana)--hailed by Politico as "America's most quotable Senator"--offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens.How...
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How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom"A book for the moment and for the ages. It's questing, pissed, propulsive, funny, generous, pervy, and original--full of love and pain in all their entwined glory." --Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsWINNER OF THE AMBER HOLLIBAUGH AWARD FOR LGBTQ+ SOCIAL JUSTICE WRITINGThe long-awaited...
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How to Move in a Room Full of Vultures: A Memoir of Redemption and LeadershipHow to Move in a Room Full of Vultures: A Memoir of Redemption and LeadershipSome rooms weren't built for you to win in. Some were built to watch you fail, to study your downfall, to celebrate your silence. I've stood in those rooms: boardrooms,...
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Hot Dish Confidential: That Year My Friends Taught Me to CookGeorge Sorensen wants to learn to cook. Not just cook, but to finally learn how to prepare a truly great meal. George was raised on TV dinners in foil trays, canned string beans reduced to paste in boiling water, Wonder Bread, bologna, and processed...
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Horse Lovers: Unpacking the Female FascinationIf you are a woman who loves horses, if you love a woman who loves horses, if you are the parent of a girl or the child of a woman who loves horses--this is for you. Karin Winegar does the deepest dive yet into...
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Home But Alone No More: A Memoir From the Owner of the House That Made Movie HistoryIn this captivating account, author John Abendshien tells the story of how he and his family resided in what became one of American cinema's most iconic houses during the filming of the classic Christmas movie Home Alone. John takes you into all the backstories...
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Holy Disruptor: Shattering the Shiny Facade by Getting Louder with the Truth"Not only was I singled out and shamed, but I was lied to as well. I'm still trying to untangle the lies--some of them televised across the country--from the truth."You've heard some of the story: the manipulation and abuse hidden behind the traditional Christian...
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Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life LessonsLGBTQ advice columnist John Paul Brammer writes a "wise and charming" (David Sedaris) memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey from a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation. "A master class of tone and tenderness." --The New York...
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High Hopes: A MemoirFans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild will root for Anne Abel as she intrepidly sets out alone for Australia at the age of sixty, seeking to capture some Bruce Springsteen energy and fight off her lifelong, debilitating depression. At the age of fifty-nine, Anne has...
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Her Place in the Woods: The Life of Helen HooverThe biography of one of Minnesota's most beloved nature writers, from her career in the city to her rustic cabin on Gunflint Lake During the late 1950s through the early 1970s, Helen Hoover's stories and essays of life in the wilderness on northern Minnesota's...
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Her Name Was Mary Katharine: The Only Woman Whose Name Is on the Declaration of IndependenceA rousing picture book biography of the only woman whose name is printed on the Declaration of Independence. Born in 1738, Mary Katharine Goddard came of age in colonial Connecticut as the burgeoning nation prepared for the American Revolution. As a businesswoman and a...
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Her Island: The Story of Quetico's Longest Serving Interior RangerJanice Matichuk first set foot on her island in Quetico Provincial Park in 1985. Located near the end of Minnesota's iconic Gunflint Trail, this remote park is the heart of North America's "canoe country." Decades later, and enduring beyond her untimely passing in the...
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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men"A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America's most notorious female killers." --The New York Times Book ReviewAn Amazon Charts bestseller.In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged...
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Hello, GRACENothing holds more power than grace.Grace transforms our hardships, giving them meaning and encouraging us to live full and fulfilling lives in spite of the difficulties we encounter.Lydia Knorr's grief after losing her husband, and soon after, her own brush with death, tested her...
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Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-MemoirsThe 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Alternatingly wistful and wry, ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these...
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Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to RememberNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and the New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can comes an "insightful, honest, funny, and moving collection of captivating stories" (BuzzFeed). "Graham is fast and furiously funny....
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