Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Selected Letters of Martha GellhornA literary landmark. Gellhorn's prose . . . is at its finest in the letter form.--Francine du Plessix Gray, The New York Times Book Review Martha Gellhorn's reporting career brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant conflict from the Spanish Civil...
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Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American RevolutionThe overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of American independence at Yorktown Nathanael Greene is a revolutionary hero who has been lost to history. Although places named in his...
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Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis JoplinJanis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation, and when she...
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My Journey at the Nuclear BrinkMy Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain...
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The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling StonesA gritty, one-of-a-kind backstage account of the world's greatest touring band, from the opinionated music journalist who was along for the ride as a young reporter for Rolling Stone in the 1990s ONE OF THE TOP FIVE ROCK BIOGRAPHIES OF THE YEAR--SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE...
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Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the LineNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMEThe back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in...
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Books for Living: Some Thoughts on Reading, Reflecting, and Embracing LifeFrom the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. "[A] gift, and one that keeps giving."...
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A Man of Good HopeWhen civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city's population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militia, his father somewhere in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime...
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Vayamos Adelante / Lean in: Las Mujeres, El Trabajo Y La Voluntad de LiderarA pesar de que las mujeres alcanzaron hace a os niveles de educaci n similares a los de los hombres, ellos ostentan a n la gran mayor a de puestos directivos, tanto en las empresas como en los gobiernos. Por ello, las voces femeninas...
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The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second ACTThis enchanting follow-up to My Life in France--the beloved bestselling memoir--chronicles Julia Child's rise from home cook to the first celebrity chef. "Inspiring and engaging ... It's impossible not to love Julia Child." --The Wall Street JournalThe story of a remarkable woman who found...
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Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big TrainHenry W. Thomas, the grandson of Walter Johnson, lives in Arlington, Virginia. He is currently editing, for audio release, the interviews taped by Lawrence Ritter for his classic The Glory of Their Times. Shirley Povich died in 1998 at the age of 92 after...
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George Drouillard: Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810George Drouillard's service to the Lewis and Clark Expedition was long obscured by the stronger light cast on the leaders and Sacagawea. Drawing from the various journals of the expedition and from many more obscure documents, letters, and legal records, M. O. Skarsten presents...
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Alejandro Tsakimp: A Shuar Healer in the Margins of HistoryIn the heavily forested foothills of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, a Shuar healer named Alejandro Tsakimp leads many lives. He is a peasant who sells cattle and lumber, a member of the Shuar Federation, a son and a brother, a husband and a...
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Free LandIn the 1880s, when adventure lay in the conquest of the prairies, David Beaton and his bride came to Dakota to claim three hundred acres of grassland. Rose Wilder Lane tells of their struggle to survive with such force that Free Land has become...
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Last Farmer: An American MemoirHoward Kohn's The Last Farmer is a memoir of his father's last seasons working the Michigan farm where they both were raised. It is a place that Kohn, a former editor at Rolling Stone, has left many times but keeps coming back to. Fredrick...
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Rebuilding the Indian: A MemoirThe building of a vintage Indian Chief motorcycle is more than the restoration of a bike-it's the resurrection of a dream. Rebuilding the Indian chronicles one man's journey through the fearful expanse of midlife in a quest for peace, parts, and a happy second...
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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Mormon FrontierIn the summer of 1860 the author of these recollections, Mary Ann Stucki, then six years old, walked beside her parents' handcart from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska, to Salt Lake City, Utah. The family, converts to Mormonism, had left their comfortable home near Bern, Switzerland,...
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It's Good to Be AliveThree-time winner of the National League's Most Valuable Player award, Roy Campanella was catcher for the Brooklyn (soon to be Los Angeles) Dodgers in January 1958, when a car accident left him permanently paralyzed. It's Good to Be Alive describes his determination to rally...
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The Reluctant Pilgrim: A Skeptic's Journey Into Native MysteriesForty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, "like the sun and moon." According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. "I...
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Joe Meek: The Merry Mountain Man"A tall man, with long black hair, smooth face, dark eyes (inclining to turn his head a little to one side, as much as to say, 'I can tell you about it'), a harum-scarum, don't-care sort of man, full of life and fun." That's...
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