Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Woodrow Wilson: A BiographyThe first major biography of America's twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America's foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars. A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president--he helped create the regulatory bodies and...
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On Michael JacksonThe renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time in this passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis.Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a "What Is...
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Reporter: A Memoir"Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over." --John le Carré...
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Jacques Cousteau: The Sea KingAn unprecedented and masterfully told biography of Jacques Cousteau that reveals for the first time the fascinating and compelling individual behind this famous television personality. Inventor of the aqualung and fearless scuba diver, Jacques Cousteau opened up the ocean to a mass audience for...
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The Chosen Few: A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of AfghanistanThe story of one of the Afghanistan war's most decorated units and their fifteen-month ordeal, culminating in the Battle of Wanat, the deadliest battle of the war A single company of US paratroopers calling themselves the "Chosen Few" arrived in eastern Afghanistan in late...
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Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc PomusOne of the most original, influential, and commercially successful American songwriters, Doc Pomus (1927-1991) was a role model for several generations of composers, renowned for his mastery of virtually every popular style, and for the numerous hits he wrote during rock 'n' roll's first...
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My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early YearsStanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper: he was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, the same childhood influences, and had the same literary instinct, but in Stanislaus it was channeled into...
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In the Steps of St. PaulIn the Steps of St. Paul dazzlingly retraces the apostle's famed journey of faith through Israel, Greece, and Italy, using the Bible itself as a guide. With an ear for good stories and an eye alert to detail, Morton creates a compulsively readable narrative...
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Jacqueline Du Pre: A BiographyCarol Easton, who knew Jacqueline du PrÃ(c)ell, draws on this friendship to create a moving and insightful portrait of a singularly complex person. Jacqueline du PrÃ(c)the subject of the recent film Hilary and Jackie) was the music world's golden girl, with what appeared to...
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The BunkerA powerfully vivid documentary reconstruction of Adolf Hitler's final days.-- New York Times Here is an unforgettable, graphic account of the final days in the Fuhrer's headquarters, deep under the shattered city of Berlin as World War II in Europe drew to a close....
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Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd WrightGenius, egotist, mythomaniac, sexual rebel, master of media manipulation, the legendary Wright comes alive in all his cantankerous complexity. . . . A delight from cover to cover.--Kirkus Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works-among them...
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My Life and My FilmsHere is the autobiography of the little boy with golden curls in the paintings of his father, Pierre Auguste Renoir-the boy who became the director many consider the greatest in history. François Truffaut called him an infallible filmmaker . . . Renoir has succeeded...
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Father of the Blues: An AutobiographyW. C. Handy's blues-Memphis Blues, Beale Street Blues, St. Louis Blues-changed America's music forever. In Father of the Blues, Handy presents his own story: a vivid picture of American life now vanished. W. C. Handy (1873-1958) was a sensitive child who loved nature and...
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Dog Days, Raven NightsThe coauthor of the award-winning In the Company of Crows and Ravens and his wife, an animal-behavior expert, offer an engaging account of their days as young field biologists in Maine Twenty years ago, fresh out of graduate school and recently married, John and...
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Boyle: Between God and ScienceRobert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker--pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel mechanical view of nature, and reflecting deeply on philosophical and...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by HimselfThe powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition "This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today. It is exceptional."--Nancy Hewitt, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Rutgers University The autobiography of Frederick...
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Who Am I?: An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and SpiritWho Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America's most innovative intellectuals, whose work has explored the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human relations with...
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Carl Maxey: A Fighting LifeCarl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch - black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other "colored" orphan. Yet Maxey managed...
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Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American MedicThis is the first collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which served in Italy and France during World War II. Written to his wife by a medic serving with the segregated Japanese American unit, the letters describe a...
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The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnúwit Átawish Nch'inch'imamí: Reflections on Sahaptin WaysThe Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch'inch'imam is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional, Indian-speaking household. Both her parents and her maternal grandmother were shamans, and her childhood was...
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