Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Freud for BeginnersThe Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent wit make difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- Newsday Everything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id -- but somehow it slipped your mind. Freud for Beginners is a perfect introduction to...
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Emissary of Light: A Vision of PeaceShares adventures in Bosnia & Croatia & explains how we could be on the brink of lasting world peace.Author: James F. TwymanPublisher: Grand Central PublishingPublished: 10/01/1998Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.29w x 0.78dISBN: 9780446674195
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The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas IIRussian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.Author: Edvard RadzinskyPublisher: Anchor BooksPublished: 06/15/1993Pages: 528Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.12dISBN: 9780385469623Review Citation(s): Publishers...
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The Company We Keep: A Husband-And-Wife True-Life Spy StoryRobert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence...
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Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the UniverseRecent years have seen an enormous surge of interest in fiber arts, with works made of thread on display in art museums around the world. But this art form only began to transcend its origins as a humble craft in the late nineteenth and...
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Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx: Love and Chaos in the South BronxPura Belpr Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir.Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy Award-winning actress...
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Specimen Days & CollectPublished in 1882, Whitman's uniquely revealing impressions of the people, places, and events of his time, principally the Civil War era and its aftermath, offer a rare excursion into the mind and heart of one of America's greatest poets. His intimate observations and reflections...
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Mysterious Life and Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South CarolinaPreacher, teacher, and postmistress, Charlotte Levy Riley was born into slavery but became a popular evangelist after emancipation. Although several nineteenth-century accounts by black preaching women in the northern states are known, this is the first discovery of such a memoir in the South....
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John Hancock: Merchant King and American PatriotPRAISE FOR HARLOW Giles UNGER'S NOAH WEBSTER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN PATRIOT Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man; shrewd, passionate, learned and energetic, God-fearing and patriotic. Mr. Unger has done a fine job reintroducing him to a new generation of...
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When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and RedemptionOften overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the shadow of...
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Now That I'm Dead, Here's The Real Dirt: The Posthumous Memoirs of Johnny FrattoNow That I'm Dead, Here's the Real Dirt: The Posthumous Memoirs of Johnny Fratto is the death-defying literary event of the year. Fratto, a charismatic radio/TV personality and Hollywood entrepreneur who was born into "The First Family of the Chicago Mob", led a secret...
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Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American PatriotNoah Webster was a truly remarkable man, shrewd, passionate, learned and energetic, God-fearing and patriotic. Mr. Unger has done a fine job reintroducing him to a new generation of Americans. --Washington Times Noah Webster The Life and Times of an American Patriot More than...
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No One Makes It AloneNo One Makes It Alone, is a true story of how a fatherless, westside Latino paperboy -destined to be a respected judge -is plucked off a cold, wintery street corner by an Anglo businessman who mentors and fathers him. It was Jack Keller's love...
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Myself Among Others: A Life in MusicNo one has had a better seat in the house than George Wein. The legendary impresario has known the most celebrated figures of music in general and jazz in particular--from Duke Ellington to Ella Fitzgerald to Miles Davis to Frank Sinatra. As a founder...
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Memoirs of Giorgio de ChiricoNo Italian painter of this century has aroused so much comment, from eulogy to outright condemnation, as Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). One of the initiators of surrealism, he is a key figure in modern art; his influence on later painters, particularly during his metaphysical...
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Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic BookNelson Mandela's memoir, Long Road to Freedom, electrified the world in 1994 with the story of a solitary man who, despite unbelievable hardships, brought down one of the most-despised regimes in the world. Fifteen years after the publication of that classic work comes this...
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The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961-1972Ned Rorem is celebrated as one of America's greatest living composers. His diary of his early years, The Paris Diary and the New York Diary, was widely acclaimed. The Later Diaries continues one of the most sustained efforts in the intimate journal form ever...
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dust bunnies: a memoirNashville's Tommy Womack writes about his life as a road musician, childhood, alcoholism, Jesus, Dad, Fender Telecasters, high school, drugs and a slew of other things in a rollicking, hair-raising, and damned funny narrative. "A brilliant book by one of Nashville's finest singer-songwriters. For...
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So What: The Life of Miles DavisMusical genius, visionary artist, enigma -- more than ten years after his death, Miles Davis still looms large as a cultural icon. In this, the first new biography since Davis' death, John Szwed draws on various archives and never-before-published interviews with those who knew...
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Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullersMore than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation--the author of Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden...
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