Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's EmpireA groundbreaking journey tracing America's forgotten path to global power--and how its legacies shape our world today--told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine."The book is far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler... a compelling and insightful meditation on the...
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in AmericaNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Finalist for the PEN/USA Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the Audie Award in Biography/Memoir This Random House Reader's Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled...
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Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls's Voyage Out of SlaveryThe true story of one man's brave plan to free his family from slavery Lizzy Smalls is proud of her papa, Robert, for being the best boat pilot in Charleston Harbor. But the Smalls family is enslaved, and after the outbreak of the Civil...
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Fragments of Wasted Devotion"Your world never ends how you think it will."In this dazzling debut collection, essayist Mia Arias Tsang explores the complexity and torture of queer heartbreak with an urgency that will leave you breathless. Flash nonfiction, vignettes, and personal narrative combine to tell the almost-love...
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Football Sissy: A Cross-Dressing Memoir"Jack's sports reporting was always fair, honest, and straightforward. He tells his own story in the same exact way." --Cris Collinsworth, NBC Sunday Night Football In Jack Brennan's decades-long career as a sports journalist, he covered teams like the MLB's Reds and the NFL's...
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Fifty Famous Stories RetoldJames Baldwin's classic collection of stories that have shaped our culture and our civilisation. Everyone should know these stories, like Androcles and the Lion, Damon and Pythius, the Brave Three Hundred, and more. The stories in this collection have been rearranged to match the...
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Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New YorkA National Book Critics Circle finalist - One of Vogue's Best Books of the Year A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York "The magic of...
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Faith Through the Storm: Memoirs of Major James Capers, Jr.This is a book about war. A war against America's enemies, against racism, against the loss of fellow warriors in battle, and against the personal loss of family back home. This is the story of Major James Capers, Jr. (USMC Ret.) Jim was born...
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Fail Until You Don't: Fight Grind Repeat#1 New York Times BestsellerThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bare Bones, host of the marquee morning program "The Bobby Bones Show," comedian and dedicated philanthropist delivers an inspirational and humorous collection of stories about his biggest misses in life and how...
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Facing the Fire: The True Story of a Firefighter, a Face Transplant, and the Fight to Keep LivingAuthor: Pat HardisonPublisher: Rose & Pearl Publishing, LLCPublished: 09/05/2025Pages: 218Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781969515002About the AuthorHardison, Pat: - Pat Hardison was a small-town firefighter in Mississippi when a house fire in 2001 left him with life-altering burns. Years of...
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Ese to Master Jefe: From Street Gang Life in South Central Los Angeles to US Navy Master ChiefRaul Ramos brings you his emotional, raw, and inspiring autobiography. Follow along on his uplifting journey from street gang life in South Central Los Angeles to earning the rank of Master Chief in the United States Navy. His one-of-a-kind story is certain to motivate...
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times - St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years,...
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Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' RollThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it.THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PRISCILLA, DIRECTED BY SOFIA COPPOLA Decades after his death, millions of fans continue...
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Elephants in the Hourglass: A Journey of Reckoning and Hope Along the HimalayaA moving and adventure-filled tale of one woman's quest for the truth about endangered Asian elephants and their evolving relationship with humans. Delving deep into an intricate web of unlikely heroes, power struggles, and living legends, Elephants in the Hourglass takes readers on an...
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Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern PhysicsA revelatory story of the woman who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in the face of discrimination. Emmy Noether's mathematical genius enabled Einstein to bring his General Theory of Relativity-the basis of our current theory of gravity-to fruition. On a...
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Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe"Clever, charming, amusing, and just plain brilliant. Ken Krimstein is the most inventive graphic biographer on the planet-and certainly the only one who could explain both Einstein and Kafka. A page turner on gravity and relativity!" -KAI BIRD, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus,...
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Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood MacAn illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac--the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures--Dreams evokes the band's entire musical catalog as well as the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story. Fleetwood Mac has had a ground-breaking career spanning...
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Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim BuckleyWhen Jeff Buckley drowned at the age of thirty in 1997, he not only left behind a legacy of brilliant music -- he brought back haunting memories of his father, '60s troubadour Tim Buckley, a gifted musician who barely knew his son and who...
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing ProcessThe long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has...
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Donner Dinner Party: Bigger & Badder Edition (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #3): A Pioneer TaleIn Nathan Hale's Donner Dinner Party: Bigger & Badder Edition, experience the hit New York Times bestselling Hazardous Tale graphic novel in a deluxe, oversized edition featuring 16 added pages of bonus material! In the spring of 1846, a group of families left Illinois...
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