Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Conversations with Joan DidionJoan Didion (b. 1934) is an American icon. Her essays, particularly those in Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, have resonated in American culture to a degree unmatched over the past half century. Two generations of writers have taken her as the measure...
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Mary Wickes: I Know I've Seen That Face BeforeMoviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This book, filled with never-published behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway and Hollywood, chronicles the life of a complicated woman who brought an assortment...
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Present at the Creation: My Life in the NFL and the Rise of America's GameUpton Bell grew up at the knee of the NFL's first great commissioner, his father, the legendary Bert Bell, who not only saved the game from financial ruin after World War II but was one of its greatest innovators. Present at the Creation details...
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James Jesus Angleton: Was He Right?In his new biography of James Jesus Angleton, Edward Jay Epstein answers the question: was Angleton right after all about penetrations in the CIA? Angleton was the legendary head of CIA counterintelligence during most of the Cold War. In May 1987, in one of...
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Calamity Jane: The Life and Legend of Martha Jane CannaryYoung Martha Jane Cannary began life as a camp follower and street urchin. Parentless by the age of twelve, she morphed into the mother of two who just as often took employment as a waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl as she did an...
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The Greatest Air Combat Stories Ever ToldHeroism and valor in the sky * A new title in the relaunch of our successful Greatest Stories Ever Told franchise. * Air combat has captured the imaginations of people since the fighter plane was first introduced during WWI. * Stories of aces such...
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Trinity GritWhat began as a handful of impromptu recordings around a kitchen table eventually led to this collection of colorful tales, stitched together with bits of Trinity County history. Whether you like good storytelling, biographies, or local history, you won't be able to put this...
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Reflections on BiographyReflections on Biography is intended for all readers of biography--lifelong or occasional, critical or casual--and is written by an award-winning biographer, Paula R. Backscheider. The author examines biography from many angles and gives a tour of the decisions biographers make and some of the...
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From Siam To SurryFrom Siam To Surry will tell you of the Miraculous Birth of the Conjoined Twins Eng & Chang Bunker, Biologial Family, Early Years, Travel to America, World Tours, Settling in North Carolina, Romance, Marriage, Parenting 21 Children, Genealogy, Life in the Foothills of the...
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Christopher: The Story of Ottawa Senators Right Winger Chris NeilChris Neil--or Christopher, as his mother, Bonnie, called him--grew up with the ambition and desire to be an NHL hockey player. Through grit and determination, he achieved his goal and left an indelible mark on the Ottawa Senators franchise. Christopher spent many hours as...
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It's the Principle of the Thing: The Personal History of Frederick Raymond HomerKnown to his friends and family as Fred, Frederick Raymond Homer could have a stern exterior, but all who knew him loved him for his big heart and generous spirit. This is the story of his life as he wrote it. He was born...
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Angels Always Come On TimeKIRKUS REVIEWS: An American immigrant explores the sprawling history of the Jewish people...through the struggles of generations of his family... The illuminating book...is rich in history...The author tells his family's story with passion, charm, and exquisite detail...As a memoir, it's beautifully rendered, and as...
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Bury Me In A Pot Bunker (New Special Edition): Design Philosophies, Creative Insights and Playing Tips to Improve Your Score from the World's Most ChaPacked with inside information about how World Golf Hall of Famer Pete Dye hoodwinks golfers of all skill levels, Bury Me In A Pot Bunker presents valuable tips to strategically play Dye's courses and any courses through understanding the architect's bedeviling mindset. Also included...
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Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender TeenSeventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning memoir. We've all felt uncomfortable in our own skin at some point, and we've all been told that "it's just a...
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Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber"A heartfelt, informative, and thoroughly engaging picture book biography." --School Library Journal (starred review) From beloved author Sue Macy comes an illustrated biography of Mary Garber, one of the first female sports journalists in American history! Mary Garber was a pioneering sports journalist in...
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Rocky's Road: Stories of 30-Plus Years in the Northwest Drag RacingWith more than three decades of experience in the world of hot rods, drag racing and funny cars, Jim Rockstad has a million and one stories of the races, drivers and good old days of drag racing in the Pacific Northwest. He was there...
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Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and OkinawaTranspacific Antiracism introduces the dynamic process out of which social movements in Black America, Japan, and Okinawa formed Afro-Asian solidarities against the practice of white supremacy in the twentieth century. Yuichiro Onishi argues that in the context of forging Afro-Asian solidarities, race emerged as...
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Determined: A Memoir"If Martin Baranek's memoir of his hellish journey were fiction, I would dismiss it as beyond comprehension. The fact that in this book Martin's own words testify in some detail to his experiences from ghetto to work camp to extermination camps to death march...
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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of AmericNAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "An extraordinary book, I can't recommend it highly enough." -Whoopi Goldberg, The View By the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call--the powerful, definitive,...
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Grace Notes: My RecollectionsAward-winning beloved actress and talented singer/songwriter Katey Sagal crafts an evocative and gripping memoir told in essays--perfect for fans of Patti Smith's M Train and Mary-Louise Parker's Dear Mr. You.In Grace Notes, Katey Sagal chronicles the rollercoaster ride of her life in this series...
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