Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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A Personal OdysseyThis is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry....
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An Unlikely Social Justice Warrior: Making My Life Count as a Muslim FeministWhat happens when a Malaysian Muslim woman defies expectations and challenges patriarchy?Ani Zonneveld shares her journey from Kuala Lumpur to rural Illinois, confronting invisible lines drawn by religion, gender, and race-all in pursuit of truth and justice.From the music industry to global human rights...
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An Independent Man: Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability RightsThe first biography of one of the founders of the disability rights movement, An Independent Man chronicles the life of an activist who reimagined the meaning of equality and inspired generations of reformers. Before Jonas Salk's vaccine, polio was a social death sentence. The...
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An Eye for an I: Growing Up with Blindness, Bigotry, and Family Mental IllnessThe personal story of a blind Puerto Rican boy in New York who transcends a harrowing childhood to become a lifelong advocate for social justice "Jovencito, it's going to be lonely being different and yet strong in this world," James Francisco Bonilla's grandmother told...
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American CantoA mesmerizing firsthand account of the warping of American reality over the past decade as Donald Trump has risen to dominance--from a participatory witness who got so far inside the distortion field that it swallowed her whole. Olivia Nuzzi spent a third of her...
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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global EmpireThis New York Times bestseller is a "masterful" (The Washington Post), "juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built" (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store. Almost ten...
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A Long Game: Notes on Writing FictionFrom bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing.Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision?...
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A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey to Become Cubana-AmericanaFor fans of Chanel Cleeton's Next Year in Havana, a real-life story of how a young woman's five-day trip to Cuba, her mother's birthplace, completely changed her view of herself as a second-generation American. When Barbara Caver was growing up in South Carolina, her...
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Alberto Crane: All In: Lessons On and Off the Mat: The Life of Alberto CraneAuthor: Mexhele DeuxlemarrPublisher: Balboa PressPublished: 09/09/2025Pages: 168Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9798765265444
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A Great and Terrible KingThe first major biography of a truly formidable king, whose reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale.Edward I is familiar to millions as "Longshanks," conqueror of Scotland and...
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A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult InstrumentA charming and deeply funny memoir of musical obsession, A Devil to Play is the story of Jasper Rees, a man who unearths his childhood French horn, and begins a quixotic but obsessively serious challenge: to play a Mozart concerto--alone--for a paying audience within...
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Abigail Adams: A LifeIn this new, vivid, nuanced portrait, now in paperback, prize-winning historian Woody Holton uses original sources and letters for the first time in a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams's life story and of women's roles in the creation of the republic.In this vivid new biography...
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Seldom Disappointed: A MemoirIn this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented novelist and reporter, Hillerman draws brilliant portrait not just of his life, but of...
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I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir"The riveting opening sets the stage as the family raced to a rickety boat to escape their homeland, dodging communist gunfire as they ran . . . Su offers a compelling narrative of immigrant life, cultural dissonance and the tug of familial obligation." --...
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MachiavelliPart of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher--history's most famous theorist of "warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed"--and the age he embodied. Ross King, the New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome, argues...
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Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of VanderbiltWall Street Journal BestsellerFor fans of Downton Abbey, a real-life American version of the Crawley family--Fortune's Children is an enthralling true story that recreates the drama, splendor, and wealth of the legendary Vanderbilts.Vanderbilt: The very name is synonymous with the Gilded Age. The family...
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The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SnccThe classic memoir by Cleveland Sellers that offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into his volunteer work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1960s civil rights movement.Among histories of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, there are few personal narratives that are...
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Cut!: How Lotte Reiniger and a Pair of Scissors Revolutionized AnimationLong before Walt Disney, a young woman revolutionized the landscape of animation using light, a pair of scissors, and her imagination. From acclaimed author C. E. Winters and debut illustrator Matt Schu, STEM meets the arts in this engaging nonfiction picture book biography about...
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Hitch-22: A Memoir"If Hitchens didn't exist, we wouldn't be able to invent him." ―Ian McEwan A stylish new paperback edition of HITCH-22, the incendiary memoir of a brilliant contrarian and one of Hitchens' most wry and provocative works. In this timeless and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces...
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A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a NationAs a new generation of activists demands an end to racism, A Place to Land reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and the movement that it galvanized. Now available in paperback. Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding...
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