Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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King George: The Triumphs and Tragedies in the Life of George StraitKING GEORGE The Triumphs and Tragedies In The Life of George Strait THE KING OF COUNTRY MUSIC THE TRAGEDIES ---George's mother left him as a child when he was in the third grade. She took his little sister with her. His mother died in...
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America ForeverA riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly The iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history--how one gunshot...
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Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village MemoirWhat Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fledgling avant-gardist, intoxicated by books, sex, and the neighborhood that offered both...
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Justin Jefferson vs. Randy Moss: Who Would Win?Justin Jefferson and Randy Moss are pass-catching superstars. NFL fans love their highlight-reel touchdowns. Moss's incredible career put him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Jefferson is catching up fast. Read about their careers and choose your winner!Author: Jim GigliottiPublisher: Lerner Publications...
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Joyful Recollections of TraumaNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND BOOKLISTAN AUDIE AWARD FINALIST"Paul Scheer delivers a deeply funny, personal and moving account of how joy and pain are the perfect ingredients for a happy and funny life."--Amy Poehler"It's a hilarious...
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Johnny Cash: The Life in LyricsThe life of the Man in Black revealed by rare photographs, ephemera, and the lyrics to 125 of his most iconic songs, in a collectible edition authorized by the Cash estate Johnny Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of...
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JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral BiographyINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fascinating...the fullest portrait of Kennedy ever written." --The Washington Post The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate and detailed look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories, his closest friends,...
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Jane Goodall: A Little Golden Book BiographyHelp your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about primatologist and conversationist, Jane Goodall. Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers--as well as fans of all ages! This Little Golden Book about Dr. Jane...
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Jane Goodall: A Champion of ChimpanzeesLearn about the life of Jane Goodall, a pioneering scientist who became the world expert on chimpanzees, in this early reader biography. Jane Goodall was the first person to study wild chimpanzees up close in a rain forest. She befriended the chimps and discovered...
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Jane Austen's WardrobeHilary Davidson delves into the clothing of one of the world's great authors, providing unique and intimate insight into her everyday life and material world What did Jane Austen wear? Acclaimed dress historian and Austen expert Hilary Davidson reveals, for the first time, the...
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James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other ConversationsNever before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin "I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only." When, in the fall of 1987, the...
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Is This Anything?The first book in twenty-five years from "one of our great comic minds" (The Washington Post) features Seinfeld's best work across five decades in comedy.Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub "Catch a Rising Star" as a twenty-one-year-old college student in...
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In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the WorldThe unlikely story of a bunch of small-town Canadian punks who conquered the global music industry. After punk found commercial success in the '90s, with bands like Green Day, the Offspring, and Blink-182, a new wave of punk bands emerged, each embodying the DIY...
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In This Body, in This Lifetime: Awakening Stories of Japanese Soto Zen WomenAvailable for the first time in English, an intimate look into the private lives and spiritual experiences of 30 nuns and laywomen practicing under pioneering female Zen master Sozen Nagasawa Roshi in World War II-era Japan. Born in 1888, Sozen Nagasawa Roshi was a...
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In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish GardenFrom the authors of This Is Happiness and Her Name Is Rose, a memoir of life in rural Ireland and a meditation on the power, beauty, and importance of the natural world. 35 years ago, when they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and...
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its MetaphorsSusan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the...
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If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and FuryNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism. "With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with...
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Hustle Harder, Hustle SmarterNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor the first time, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback--from tragic personal loss to thriving businessman and cable's highest-paid executive--in this unique self-help guide, his first since his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The 50th Law.In his...
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How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An AutobiographyDuring the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions; he widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, "So many taboos have been lifted and...
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How To Survive A Freakin' Bear Attack: And 127 Other Survival Hacks You'll Hopefully Never NeedWould you know what to do if a bear charged at you? What about if you were out driving and an earthquake struck? Or a tornado? What about if you were bitten by a snake in the middle of nowhere, or caught in an...
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