Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Another Happy Ending: Lessons in Love, Loss, and Full-Circle AcceptanceHeeding her late father's bellwether words, to go with the flow, Tia finally decided to follow the current of her life instead of continuing to swim against it, and as a result, made her way to the edge of a wynorrific cliff. After finding...
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an EpicA New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club Pick From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the...
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André Leon Talley: Style Is ForeverA visual celebration of André Leon Talley's life that centers his personal style as a lens on his contributions to fashion history. This lavish volume reflects on the life of André Leon Talley and his impactful ascent to the height of global fashion. Many...
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's DestinyNow in paperback with a new afterword.... Another pageturning New York Times bestseller by the authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes...
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An AutobiographyBack in print in the exclusive authorized edition, is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the "Queen of Mystery." Fans of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and readers of John Curran's fascinating biographies Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks and Murder in the...
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A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild PlacesAn "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author). During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an...
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An Anarchy of Demons'An Anarchy of Demons' is the long anticipated autobiography by U.K. Subs' legendary leader Charlie Harper. Charlie's fascinating story is told in his own unique style, taking the reader through his early years as a 'war baby', his time at boarding schools for misfit...
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An American Story: Everyone's InvitedA love letter to America from the pen of actor, producer, immigrant, and activist Wilmer Valderrama.In this timely memoir, Valderrama looks back on his journey from a tiny pueblo in Venezuela to the big city of Los Angeles--how he discovered his calling as an...
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A Modern Man: The Best of George CarlinA new collection of greatest hits from one of the greatest comedians of our time, George Carlin, now the subject of the HBO documentary George Carlin's American Dream, directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio George Carlin was: "a true, true artist" (Chris Rock)..."the...
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America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most TraveledSelected by New York Times Book Review as one of their "Great Road Trip Books"NATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Book of the Year --NPR, Vulture, Book Riot, B&N"America the Beautiful? is so funny and special and illuminating that it makes even me, a person who cannot...
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas JeffersonNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing...
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America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of WarBestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator...
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A Man of the Beatitudes: Pier Giorgio FrassatiA beguiling and moving biography of Pier Giorgio Frassati, a handsome, athletic and fun-loving young man from a rich, aristocratic Italian family in the 1920's who was recently beatified by Pope John Paul II. Pier Giorgio turned from a life of privilege to one...
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A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the MarketThe incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street. A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O....
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Al Unser Jr: A Checkered PastWinning came naturally to Al Unser Jr. Born into a racing family, he had a gift for finding the fast line on the track. By the time he was nine years old, he could draw the quickest way through the corner on paper and...
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All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and PoliticiansA New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA New York Post Best Book of the YearAn Amazon Best Biography/Memoir "A rollicking, unexpectedly affecting story. . . It's going to be one of the big, buzzy Beltway books of the year."--Politico...
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All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine ArtA dazzling insider's account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer A BEST BOOK: The New York Times, The New Yorker,...
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Allow Me to Interrupt: A Psychologist Reveals the Emotional Truth Behind Women's ADHDThe world is right--ADHD girls and women do interrupt--but not all of it is unintentional, and almost all of it is extraordinary. If you picked up this book, chances are you want to learn more about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in females--and you...
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All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, SpyWinner of the Gold Medal for Memoir/Biography from the Military Writers Society of America A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A whale of a tale, told clearly and quickly. I read the entire book in almost one sitting."--Thomas E. Ricks, New York...
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Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--The Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes#1 New York Times Bestseller"No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down.... There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one's own life and its value." -- New RepublicSixteen...
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