Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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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 Be a (Young) AntiracistThe #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now in paperback for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide...
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How I Found Myself in the Midwest: A Memoir of ReinventionA passionate testimony to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Midwestern native shares hope in going local. Just after turning forty, Steve Grove left Silicon Valley as a Google executive to move to his home state of Minnesota with his...
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific"A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who--somehow--survived."--Tom HanksSee Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific Here is one of the most...
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 YearsWarm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living...
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Grown Woman Talk: Your Essential Companion for Healthy LivingNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A must-read for anyone who cares about their quality of life . . . Dr. Sharon Malone is the first person I turn to for a whole host of issues, especially my health."--MICHELLE OBAMA A practical guide to aging...
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Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of MosesSt. Gregory of Nyssa (335-394 CE), who came from an illustrious Christian family of Capadocia, became bishop of the small town of Nyssa in 371 and is known as one of the founders of mystical theology in the Church. In The Life of Moses,...
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Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America's Deadliest WaterwayA vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history--and present--of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific...
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Grace Lee Boggs: Gardens of HopeGrace Lee Boggs brought gardens to inner cities and planted seeds of hope and activism in the minds of young people. When Grace Lee Boggs was eight years old, her teacher gave her a copy of The Secret Garden. As a Chinese-American who had...
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Godstruck: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious ConversionA candid, thought-provoking exploration of contemporary women's experiences of religious conversion and the relationship between faith and fulfillment in our time Religious involvement has been declining in the West for decades--and, though men have historically outnumbered women among the disaffiliated in the U.S., a...
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G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American CenturyNow in paperback, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J Edgar Hoover deemed "Masterful...an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work"by The Washington Post (and everywhere else) "Revelatory...an acknowledgment of the complexities that made Hoover who...
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Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American FilmTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling...
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George Washington and the Creation of the American RepublicWashington's strategic genius extended beyond war, laying the foundation for a powerful American Republic. The twentieth-century publication of Washington's writings, and more recently the digital editions of his papers, have provided George Washington's biographers with increased access to the details of his life. Despite...
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Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story"An important and beautiful book" -Katie Gutierrez, bestselling author of More Than You'll Ever KnowA genre-bending expedition into the treacherous, untamed frontier of childbirthAs she prepared to give birth to her first child, Erica Stern envisioned the idyllic experience promised by prenatal classes and...
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Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American PoliticsFrom bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had...
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Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, and wildflower-studded meadows." -Barbara Olson Lawrence, author of the forthcoming Drawing WaterThree friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike "the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world," the...
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Finding Me: A MemoirOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A HARPERS BAZAAR BEST BOOK OF 2022 - A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - A MARIE CLAIRE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK"It's clear from the first page that Davis is going to serve a more intimate, unpolished account than is typical...
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Fi: A Memoir of My Son2025 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST FOR MEMOIRFrom the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child"An elegiac meditation on motherhood and grief, written from...
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Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of the BanglesThe authorized biography of the quintessential '80s pop band The Bangles, who scored massive hits with "Manic Monday," Walk Like an Egyptian," "Hazy Shade of Winter," and more From their first meeting in 1981, the Bangles were ambitious, focused, and intentional; their hard-work and...
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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success"Through candor and comprehensiveness, Jackson writes a convincing revisionist take, in which he emerges as an excellent coach . . . highly readable . . . reflects Jackson's polymathy." --The New York Times Book Review "Part sports memoir, part New Age spirit quest, part...
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