Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara WaltersA "smart, juicy, deeply reported" (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time--Barbara Walters--a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author...
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The Revolt of the Cockroach PeopleThe further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas"-- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as...
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The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz FanonOne of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Named a best book of 2024 by The New Yorker Vulture Los Angeles...
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The Poetry of Chiyo-Ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master"Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi are to be deeply thanked for having given us with such articulate care a poetry major in any language and in any place or time." --Robert Creeley, poet The Poetry of Chiyo-ni introduces English-language readers to one of Japan's...
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The Nine O'Clock Whistle: Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North CarolinaBetween the years of 1963 and 1965, civil rights protests rocked rural communities like Enfield, a small North Carolina town where segregationist and white supremacist attitudes prevailed. Whites in Enfield enforced a variety of racist norms and employed a range of racist practices, including...
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The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black FamiliesNAACP Image Award and Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Literary Award Winner "[A] heartfelt tribute to young people of color and their 'reflection of resplendent beauty, ancient history ... and irreplaceable value.' It's a standout." ―Publishers Weekly, starred review Inspired by...
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The Naval Academy - A Parent's Ponderings from Home Port: Untying the Bowline on I-DayThis journal catalogs my seven years along the Severn River watching our USNA daughters, ('19) and ('22), become imbued "with the highest ideals of duty, honor, and loyalty."Midshipmen accept their Naval Academy appointments, not with hesitation or coercion, but with purpose, to be better...
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The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and CreativityAre caregiving and creative labor fundamentally at odds? Is it possible for mothers to attend to both? Few women artists feature prominently in the history of art, and even fewer who are mothers. How are motherhood and artmaking at play and at odds in...
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The Met Faith Ringgold: Narrating the World in Pattern and ColorSee the world through Faith Ringgold's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces. Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated series of...
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir PutinNational Book Award winner Masha Gessen's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power. "In a country where journalists critical of the government have a way of meeting untimely deaths, Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinching indictment of...
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The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim SamarasThe saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity's high-stakes race to understand nature's fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, "one of today's great science writers" (The Washington Post). At the turn...
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The Man-eaters of Tsavo: and Other East African AdventuresThe Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 that recounts his experiences while overseeing the construction of a railroad bridge in what would become Kenya. It is most widely known for recounting the story of a pair of...
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish"A tribute to a time when style -- and maybe even life -- felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers." -- Sadie Stein, Paris Review As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to...
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The Little Bach Book: An eclectic Omnibus of Notable Details about the Life and Times of the esteemed and highly respected Johann Sebastian BachA richly illustrated description of daily life in Leipzig, Germany in the 1730s, this is the only book about J.S. Bach that presents colorful vignettes of his career within a detailed context of the even more colorful everyday world around him. Written by a...
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The Life-Changing Magic of Drumming: A Beginner's Guide by Musician Nandi BushellThe Life-Changing Magic of Drumming is a beginner's guide to drumming, with secrets from world-famous musician Nandi Bushell Find out how Nandi Bushell--the young drummer who has played with the Foo Fighters--discovered drumming when she was just five years old. She shares how she...
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The Leadership Detour: How the Unexpected Path Shaped My SuccessThe Leadership Detour is a deeply personal and powerful memoir-meets-leadership guide by Dr. Tammi Fleming. Blending lived experience with professional insight, she shares her unexpected journey from early career success to profound personal transformation. Through heartfelt storytelling and coaching wisdom, she explores the essential...
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The Kid Stays in the PictureRobert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling. With black-and-white photographs from the...
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The Kept Ones: The Fame Years (Volume 2)In this second book of the Bunny DeBarge trilogy, 'The Kept Ones: The Fame Years" Bunny presents captivating revelations detailing her family's rise to the top of R&B music royalty and how they each came tumbling down, one DeBarge member at a time.And so...
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital RevolutionFollowing his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a "riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving" (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet. What were the talents...
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The Housekeeper's Secret: A MemoirFor fans of stranger than truth stories, Sandy Schnakenburg is uncovering rattling and unprecedented revelations in this powerful memoir of love, secrets, and survival. When Lee Metoyer is hired to be the new housekeeper, she has no idea that she's about to become the...
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