Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, SonThe authoritative biography of Prince Harry by noted royal family biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King and The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor. Prince Harry, one of the most popular members of the...
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If My Heart Could Talk: A Story of Family, Faith, and MiraclesDodie Osteen, mother of Joel Osteen, gives readers a personal account of her extraordinary life and shares what she has learned about love, faith, and family. As the wife of forty-four years to the late Pastor John Osteen, founder of Lakewood Church, Dodie Osteen...
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BalanceNik Wallenda, King of the High Wire, doesn't know fear. As a seventh generation of the legendary Wallenda family, he grew up performing, entertaining, and pushing the boundaries of gravity and balance. When Nik was four years old, he watched a video from 1978...
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The Welsh the BiographyThe Welsh: The Biography tells the story of the remarkable survival of the oldest nation and oldest language in Europe. We see how the four original major Celtic tribes are still reflected in the location of Britain's four oldest cathedrals, and how after one...
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Mike: The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume One: 1897-1948One of Canada's most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. The first volume of his memoirs follows him from his youth as the son of a...
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Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and FoundA superb new study of Jerry Lee Lewis that's as intense and fast paced as the life of The Killer himself, from the height of fame to the bumpy road that followed. The category in which Jerry Lee Lewis truly belongs is 'Jerry Lee...
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Lemmy: The Definitive Biography'Unflinching, forthright and full of wry humour as the man himself, and there's little praise greater than that' CLASSIC ROCK 'Wall's vision of Lemmy as a Rock'n'Roll stalwart who made no concessions is vivid to the last' GUARDIANIn 'The Ace of Spades', Motörhead's most...
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Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy: A True Account of Life on the Last Great Cattle FrontierThe second in Richmond Hobson's beloved a trilogy, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, continues the adventure of cattle ranchers Rich and Pan. It is a story of hardship and endurance--of cattle drives, frozen faces, and marauding wolf packs. It is the story of...
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Charlotte Brontë Before Jane EyreDo you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong --I have as much soul as you, --and full as much heart Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre is a beloved classic, celebrated today by readers...
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Houdini: The Handcuff King"I have escaped out of more handcuffs, manacles, and leg shackles than any other human being living." Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so over ninety years since his death. This is a snapshot of...
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Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisHistory remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the tycoon's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, tend to skip over an equally important stage in her life: her almost two-decade-long career as...
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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me HomeA national bestseller and winner of a Living Now Book Award, Stir is an exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking...
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James Meredith: Warrior and the America that created himIn the last century, on September 30, 1962, James Meredith became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi, until then a segregated establishment--a watershed event in the American Civil Rights movement. Less than one year later, Meredith graduated with a degree...
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Confessions of an Accidental Zoo CuratorFrom cougars, orangutans, supersize snakes, fugitive pigs, and a shocked New York City cabbie, Confessions is fascinating, and often hilarious. Berkovits masterfully regales readers with stories that give the inside scoop on what went on behind the scenes at one of the world's most...
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The Uris Trinity: The father, the son and the trophy wifeHaving the world famous novelist Leon Uris for a father had its downside. Kidnapped in Hollywood at age one, evacuated from Israel during the Suez Crisis, threatened by Arab nations and French assassins. Fueled by intrigue and ever present danger, Michael created an imaginary...
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Sonny Rollins: Meditating on a RiffJazz legend Sonny Rollins spent his youth hustling on the streets of his native Harlem, but over time the tenor saxophonist shifted gears and developed the reputation of being "the world's greatest living jazz musician." Did he deserve such a lofty title? This biography,...
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From Lion's Jaws: Chogyam Trungpa's Epic Escape To The WestIn 1959 a nineteen year-old lama, Chögyam Trungpa, led 300 Tibetan men, women and children on a desperate nine-month escape from pursuing Communist troops. Travelling where people had never been, they trekked through some of the world's harshest weather and most treacherous mountains. Then,...
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Doreen Valiente WitchA personal biographical account of the life of Doreen Valiente, described by Professor Ronald Hutton as "the greatest single female figure in the modern British history of witchcraft". Author Philip Heselton draws on first hand testimony and Doreen's own personal papers to reveal previously...
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Anointed to Sing the Gospel: The Levitical Legacy of Thomas A. DorseyAnointed to Sing the Gospel is the biography of the "Father of Gospel Music," Dr. Thomas A. Dorsey from Villa Rica, GA to Chicago, IL. It encompasses the spiritual dilemma that caused him to cross-over completely to the gospel song from blues and jazz....
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Your Diplomats at Work: A Comedy in Seven ActsThis book is an account of the author's sometimes comical, sometimes frustrating, but always enlightening adventures as a diplomat in seven countries. As a former academic who had worked and traveled in some sixty countries of the world before joining the Foreign Service, Huffman...
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