Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy"We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction." --Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Connor Towne O'Neill's journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in...
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Plenty: A Memoir of Food and FamilyA moving reflection on motherhood, friendship, and women making their mark on the world of food from the author of Feast.Food writer Hannah Howard is at a pivotal moment in her life when she begins searching out her fellow food people--women who've carved a...
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Freedom's Journey"We felt quite sure that we were still going in the right direction when, all of a sudden, we noticed the form of a man dressed in a uniform approaching us. Our hearts sank as we thought of what was about to take place....
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Claude McKay: The Making of a Black BolshevikOne of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889-1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black radical tradition. McKay's life and writing were defined by his class consciousness and anticolonialism, shaped by his...
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveFrederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore....
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La Vida de Lord Byron: Grandes Biografías en EspañolEl gran poeta rom ntico Lord Byron pas hambre la mayor parte de su vida. Su comportamiento desconcert a sus amigos, pero nunca imagin que estaba enfermo. En su lugar, racionaliz su comportamiento como una lucha por la libertad espiritual y lo convirti en...
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The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir'There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons no one gets opera. That's what I believe.' A deeply moving memoir of how...
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The Book of Orange: A Journal of the Trump Years By a Crazed Snowflake Employing Rhyming Insults, Limericks, Loathing, Hyperbole, Secret TNew York Times bestselling author Mark Childress was like many liberal Americans whose life veered off the tracks as Donald Trump rose to power. In his day-by-day journal, Childress tirelessly pursues the funny side of America's descent into Trumpism. From Vietnam to New Orleans...
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The Birdman of Koshkonong: The Life of Naturalist Thure KumlienThure Kumlien was one of Wisconsin's earliest Swedish settlers and an accomplished ornithologist, botanist, and naturalist in the mid-1800s, though his name is not well known today. He settled on the shore of Lake Koshkonong in 1843 and soon began sending bird specimens to...
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Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust MemoirLilo and Ernst survived the horrors of WWII in the center of Berlin, but not without help. An incredible tale of survival and kindness. Lilo was just a teenager when the Nazis took away her mother and father in September 1942. She never saw...
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Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What Melania wants, Melania gets. The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald...
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Memoirs Joseph L. Lopez: The Memoirs of a Spanish Immigrant to the United StatesJoseph Lopez Lopez wrote his memoirs by hand on lined notebook paper in 1978. These pages were "bound" into a gray folder. Copies were given to each of his children and grandchildren. These memoirs encompass Joseph L. Lopez' recollections of his life from the...
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Life of Chopin: Frédéric Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano.Life of Chopin by Franz LisztFr d ric Fran ois Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius...
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Surrender: A memoir of nature, nurture, and loveHer young life changed in an instant. Now she shares her story with the child she gave away.Adopted at birth, Marylee's parents told her she was a "chosen child." She tried her hardest to make them proud, but her parents' divorce sent her into...
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Sayulita: Mexico's Lost Coastal Village CultureJust north of Puerto Vallarta, the shore of Banderas Bay was once wilderness edged by a no-shoulder, two-lane asphalt strip that snaked up the jungle-draped coast to Tepic where the Nogales to Guadalajara Highway ran. Now, that coastline is called the Riviera Nayarit, and...
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Lamp of Eternal Lights: The Biography of Saint Charbel Makhlouf (1828-1898)Saint Charbel Makhlouf, one of the most famous saints of the Catholic Church, is a simple, humble and intriguing person. This biography offers a description of some of the most important events in his lifetime, from his birth in Beqaakafra (1828) to his death...
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Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470-1600Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France presents short biographies for over 2700 booksellers, printers and bookbinders active outside Paris and Lyon in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Author: Malcolm WalsbyPublisher: BrillPublished: 12/11/2020Pages: 912Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.30lbsSize: 9.53h x 6.54w x 2.20dISBN: 9789004324138About the AuthorMalcolm Walsby...
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The Dream is Real: (My Life on the Airwaves)The Dream is RealYou've heard and watched the games, now go behind the scenes to get the skinny on the humor, drama and strategy behind them. The Dream is Real is a look back at the award-winning career of broadcaster Bob Davis. From the...
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A Hunter's Life LivedIn everyone's life, there is a story, narrow that down, but you will have a chapter full of information. I have been fortunate I make no mistakes about that. I was born during the Second World war was being fought. On reflection, I found...
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Michael Romanov: Brother of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1916-1918Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878-1918) was born the youngest son of Tsar Alexander III, ruler of the mightiest empire on earth. Upon the premature death of his elder brother Grand Duke George in 1899, Michael was thrust into the spotlight as the...
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