Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Fireproof: Memoir of a ChefWith rare intensity and candor, world-renowned, Michelin-starred Chef Curtis Duffy shares his epic journey from child of an outlaw biker father to famed culinary iconoclast. Fans of no holds-barred stories such as Motley Crue's The Dirt, memoirs by celebrity chefs, and brutally honest personal...
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Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam BrownGo deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators. When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn't know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan--but he...
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Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism Is a Joke"[A] memorable portrait of the mad hunger of corporate toil...superbly committed to its own beliefs -- truthful, dryly funny and often subtly moving." - Charles Finch, The New York Times In this genre-bending memoir, Leigh Claire La Berge reflects on her stint at one...
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Faith: A Journey for AllIn this powerful and personal New York Times bestseller, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment and considers how we may find it in our own lives. All his life, President Jimmy Carter has been a courageous exemplar...
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Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for WomenA fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim equality, power, and authority in...
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Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los AngelesWINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDA LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER. NAMED A BEST CALIFORNIA BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK TIMESA provocative, exhilaratingly new understanding of the United States' most confounding metropolis--not just a great city, but a full-blown modern city-state America is...
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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A MemoirThis "vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers). Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray...
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Eternally Electric: The Message in My MusicIn her long-awaited debut, Debbie Gibson reflects on the lessons she learned in her years as a young pop pioneer and on her hard-earned journey to embrace her authentic self, allowing her to lead the healthy, engaged--and electric!--life she does today. Debbie Gibson was...
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Escape!: The Story of the Great HoudiniHow did he walk through walls, escape drowning, and shatter iron chains that were tightly wrapped around him?The rare photos in this book might help you figure it out. So might the exclusive update about the rumor that Houdini was poisoned. But just remember,...
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Erno Rubik and His Magic CubeThis first picture book biography of Rubik's Cube creator Erno Rubik reveals the obsession, imagination, and engineering process behind creating an iconic puzzle. Celebrating 50 years of the most popular puzzle in history! An Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Honor BookA Mathical Book Prize Honor...
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Epic Athletes: Caitlin Clark* "An unusually informative and enjoyable sports biography for young readers." --Booklist, starred review for Epic Athletes: Stephen Curry In this inspiring sports biography of Caitlin Clark featuring eye-catching photographs, acclaimed journalist Dan Wetzel tells the incredible true story of one of the greatest...
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Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "When I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth. I didn't know how much I needed someone else to validate what I was going through. The sense that I had lost my...
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Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, MailerLeonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life. They worked in different fields, and, apart from clinking glasses...
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Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and IndonesiaOne of the most iconic, beloved, and bestselling books of our time from the bestselling author of City of Girls and Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert.Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love touched the world and changed countless lives, inspiring and empowering millions of readers to search...
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DreamersWe are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers. Yuyi Morales brought her hopes, her passion, her strength, and her stories with her, when she came to the United States in 1994 with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but...
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Does This Make Me Funny?: EssaysFrom the singular mind of Zosia Mamet, a collection of charmingly witty and achingly vulnerable essays about the challenge and magic of growing up in show business You may know Zosia Mamet from her role as Shoshanna on Girls, or for being one of...
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Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and MeMimi Pond crafts a gorgeous, dazzling biography of the Mitford Sisters Born with pedigrees but without the pocketbooks to match, The Mitfords were certainly no strangers to lies, intrigue, or scandal. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. All six sisters were weaned on...
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Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and DesireThe much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the...
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Dirtbag QueenIn this "utterly unhinged, hilarious" memoir, a son pays tribute to his larger than life 'zaftig good time gal' mother and his unusual childhood (Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author). "Because she was my mother, the death of zaftig good-time gal Renay Corren...
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Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay RestaurantsFrom a New York Times journalist, a culinary tour of gay restaurants--their history, and how they evolved as a space of safety and celebration for the LGBTQ+ community--full of joy, sex, sorrow, activism, and nostalgia. Dining Out explores how gay people came of age,...
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