Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are TodayAn inspirational book about life and its lessons from the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated star of NBC's This Is Us.When This Is Us debuted in fall 2016, a divided America embraced a show that celebrates human connection. The critically acclaimed series became America's...
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its AftermathFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns...
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John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole PeopleA magisterial journey through the epic life and transformative times of John Quincy Adams In this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy's long life, exposing a rich and complicated family saga and a political legacy that...
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Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of EspionageFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA--women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved book that changed millions of lives--with a new afterword by the author "A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul."--Los Angeles TimesMaybe it was...
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Nuestra América: 30 Inspiring Latinas/Latinos Who Have Shaped the United StatesCelebrate 30 influential Latinas/Latinos/Latinxs in U.S. history with Nuestra América, a fully-illustrated anthology from the Smithsonian Latino Center. Nuestra América highlights the inspiring stories of thirty Latina/o/xs throughout history and their incredible contributions to the cultural, social, and political character of the United States....
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She Kept Dancing: The True Story of a Professional Dancer with a Limb DifferenceThis warm and inviting picture book, cowritten with Catherine Laudone and brightly illustrated by Natelle Quek, takes young readers along on Sydney's journey--through the joyous ups as well as the crushing downs--and tells the story of how through it all, she kept dancing. No...
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And Then? and Then? What Else?Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from...
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It: EssaysMordantly funny, thought-provoking travel essays, from the acclaimed author of Out of Sheer Rage and "one of our most original writers" (New York Magazine). This isn't a self-help book; it's a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In these...
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What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan"When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened." --Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton Congresswoman Barbara Jordan had a big, bold, confident voice--and she knew how to use it! Learn all about her amazing career in this illuminating and inspiring picture book biography of...
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Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie SchwarzenbachAnnemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she's been largely ignored. Born to a wealthy family in Switzerland, as a teenager she rebelled against her domineering pro-Nazi...
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In My Own Way: An AutobiographyIn this new edition of his acclaimed autobiography -- long out of print and rare until now -- Alan Watts tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution from a child of religious conservatives in rural England to a freewheeling spiritual teacher who challenged Westerners to...
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Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other WritingsA masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature--part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakening Bashō (1644-1694)--a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty--is renowned...
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Queens of Islam: The Muslim World's Historic Women RulersA survey of prominent Muslim women rulers from the first centuries of Islamic history to early modern times. From Pakistan to Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria, from Senegal to Turkey, it is not unusual in modern times for women in Muslim-majority countries to be appointed...
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Encounters with MenEncounters With Men is a searching memoir as only Bob Ostertag could tell it. In these pages are a lifetime of intimacies and distances, moments with fathers and teachers, friends and lovers, soldiers, cops, and criminals--even one of the great mass murderers of the...
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Deep in the Holler: Appalachian TalesIf you lived back in the holler, that meant you were raised in the country, or on a farm, and the road usually led only to local neighbors' homes. The holler was your community. Author Elizabeth Hardin Buttke recalls life in a gentle time...
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Crazy Lucky: Remarkable Stories from Inside the World of Celebrity IconsMost lawyers aren't like John Mason. Then again, most lawyers don't do what he does. For decades, John Mason has been a confidante, mediator, and last line of defense for some of the most visible artists in the world: from Brian Wilson and Roy...
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The Mystery of the Monarchs: How Kids, Teachers, and Butterfly Fans Helped Fred and Norah Urquhart Track the Great Monarch MigrationA gorgeous picture book based on the true story of a scientist who solves the mysteries of monarch butterfly migration--with the help of schoolchildren! A perfect story for nature lovers of all ages from the Caldecott Honor winning author of The Noisy Paint Box...
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The Pillow Book of SEI Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century JapanTake a firsthand journey into a time, society and world full of intrigue. In the tenth century, Japan stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Sei Shonagon--a young courtesan of the Heian period--kept a diary, which provides a highly personal...
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Strength beyond the Shadows: Overcoming a Childhood of Trauma, Neglect, and Sexual AbuseAs seen on the Youtube channel Soft White Underbelly "Strength beyond the Shadows is a raw, hard-truth, light-shining-bright-into-some-dark-places story few have the courage to reveal and Seth is on an undeniable quest to change lives."-NICK LAVERY, Green Beret, U.S. Army Special Forces, Founder /...
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