Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called PixiesIt's the 1980s and the rock landscape is littered with massive hair, synthesizers, and monster riffs, but there is an alternative being born in the sleepy East of America-we just don't know it yet. Before the Internet, MTV, and iPods provided far-off music fans...
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A Lifetime of Wisdom: Embracing the Way God Heals YouIt's not what I lost. It's what I've found. I was only seventeen, just a girl, when God asked me for everything I had . . . my health, my hopes, my independence, my dreams, my freedom, and my mobility. He took it all.I...
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I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground RailroadIt was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring--and successful--daylight escape from their Louisville masters. Pursued to Michigan, the couple was captured and sentenced to return to Kentucky...
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Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created CaliforniaIsaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles into the modern metropolis we see today. In Frances...
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Just a Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces BetweenIn this timely book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter trains an autobiographical lens on a moment of remarkable transition in American journalism. Just a few years ago, the mainstream press was wrestling with whether labeling waterboarding as torture violated important norms of neutrality and objectivity....
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Awesome Bill from Dawsonville: My Life in NASCARIn this long-awaited autobiography, the legendary Bill Elliott details his childhood in rural North Georgia, building cars from scratch, struggling on the anonymous small-time tracks of the South to his against-the-odds rise to the pinnacle of NASCAR stardom: Winston Cup Champion. From Daytona to...
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Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. SheridanIn this compelling and crisply written biography, historian Joseph Wheelan examines the life and wars of the indomitable General Phil Sheridan, whose leadership and aggressive tactics helped win the Civil War, crush the marauding Plains Indians--and save Yellowstone.Author: Joseph WheelanPublisher: Da Capo PressPublished: 09/01/2013Pages:...
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The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created Alice in WonderlandIn The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Jenny Woolf brings to life the brilliant, secretive, and self-contradictory creator of Alice in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. Reveling in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life, Carroll always--at least in part--seemed...
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Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American WestIn the 1940s Henry J. Kaiser was a household name, as familiar then as Warren Buffett and Donald Trump are now. Like a Horatio Alger hero, Kaiser rose from lower-middle-class origins to become an enormously wealthy entrepreneur, building roads, bridges, dams, and housing. He...
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The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family OdysseyIn his intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history--a memoir of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love--award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate and discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing through...
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A Fortunate Life: Behind-The-Scenes Stories from a Hollywood LegendIn his fifty-year career, Vaughn has made his mark in roles on stage, in film, and on television the world over. A Fortunate Life reveals the details of his early years in Hollywood, when he found himself appearing as often in the gossip magazines...
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Lies My Mother Never Told MeIn her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones--the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)--tells the poignant story...
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Billy the Kid: An Autobiograpy: The Story of Brushy Bill RobertsIn 1882 a notorious outlaw and a childhood friend of Billy the Kid was released from prison where he had been serving time for killing a Texas Ranger. His freedom finally secured, the outlaw disappeared and was never heard from again. Never, that is,...
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To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central AfricaIn 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Sz sz stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was...
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the PuritansIn 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the...
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The Torture Camp on Paradise StreetIn The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner from 2015 to 2017 in a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in the Russian-controlled city of...
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Please Don't Take My Baby'I'm going to love my baby and give her lots of attention, ' Jade said. 'I'll show my mum she's wrong.'Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she's brought to live with Cathy. Jade is desperate to keep her baby, but little more...
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The Broken Road to Mental Health: In Life and in BusinessI should be dead today. Instead, I am gifted with a life beyond my wildest dreams and have yet taken that for granted. It is my responsibility to pass it on, the future is now. As I continue to witness the rising amount of...
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The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter's Search for HomeHer name was Rosamond Pinchot: hailed as "The Loveliest Woman in America," she was a niece of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot; cousin to Edie Sedgwick; half sister of Mary Pinchot Meyer, JFK's lover; friend to Eleanor Roosevelt and Elizabeth Arden. At nineteen she was...
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Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Lewis StevensonHe thrilled readers the world over with breathtaking tales of pirates (Treasure Island) and monsters (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). But the short life of writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction. He...
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