Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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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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eating pizza backwards, and other adventures: a mom, a daughter, a life unexpectedParenting brings a world of joy and challenge. Raising a special needs child only magnifies the highs and lows that all parents experience. This beautiful collection of essays spotlights and celebrates the unique perspective differently abled children offer all who love and care for...
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DK Super Readers Level 4 Martin Luther King, JrHelp your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress. DK Super Readers Level 3: Martin Luther King, Jr offers a sensitive account of...
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DK Super History George Washington and the American RevolutionThis series explores history through modern topic books that enhance literacy and background knowledge while aligning with the curriculum. DK Super History: George Washington and the American Revolution is part of the new DK Super History series designed for children aged 7-11 to explore...
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness"Rough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book."--Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review "This is not primarily a book about the desert," writes Edward Abbey in his introduction. "In recording my impressions of the natural scene I...
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Crazy BraveIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding...
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Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's UnderworldThis is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a "good" life, in either sense of the word, but it was...
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Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of SeparationIn Common Ground, veteran organizer Eileen Flanagan weaves together a series of stories of hard won successes in the climate change movement, including against a multinational bank in one case, and a heavily polluting fossil fuel company in another, based on grassroots organizing. As...
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Newbery Honor Book; National Book Award Winner)NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER AND NEWBERY HONOR BOOK ● Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Read the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure in this multi-award winning, mega-selling biography from the incomparable Phillip Hoose. "When it...
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