Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Bouton Lib/E: The Life of a Baseball OriginalFrom the day he first stepped into the Yankee clubhouse, Jim Bouton (1939-2019) was the sports world's deceptive revolutionary. Underneath the crew cut and behind the all-American boy-next-door good looks lurked a maverick with a signature style. Whether it was his frank talk about...
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A Bound Man Lib/E: Why We Are Excited about Obama and Why He Can't WinAuthor: Shelby SteelePublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 01/22/2008Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200138302About the AuthorSteele, Shelby: - Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. He was appointed a...
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Boots on the Ground by Dusk Lib/E: My Tribute to Pat TillmanAuthor: Mary Tillman, Narda ZacchinoPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 05/13/2008Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200135578About the AuthorTillman, Mary: - Mary Tillman is a special education teacher in San Jose, California, where she lives.Zacchino, Narda: - Narda Zacchino is a former associate editor at the Los Angeles Times and...
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All God's Dangers Lib/E: The Life of Nate ShawAuthor: Theodore RosengartenPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 08/27/2014Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200035762About the AuthorRosengarten, Theodore: - Theodore Rosengarten is an American historian. He received his BA in American studies from Amherst College and a PhD in history from Harvard University. Along with All God's Dangers, which won...
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I'm Staying with My Boys Lib/E: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMCAuthor: Jim Proser, Jerry CutterPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 06/06/2017Binding Type: CDISBN: 9781665264266About the AuthorProser, Jim: - Award-winning author Jim Proser began his professional writing career at age fifteen as a city reporter for the Lambertville Beacon newspaper and as a regional photojournalist for the Bucks...
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Walking to Listen Lib/E: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a TimeAuthor: Andrew ForsthoefelPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 04/24/2018Binding Type: CDISBN: 9781665236904About the AuthorForsthoefel, Andrew: - Andrew Forsthoefel is a writer, radio producer, and public speaker. After graduating from Middlebury College in 2011, he spent nearly a year walking across the United States. It was the greatest...
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The Know-It-All Lib/E: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (Unabridged Edition)Author: A. J. JacobsPublisher: HighBridge AudioPublished: 09/27/2004Binding Type: CDISBN: 9781665169431About the AuthorJacobs, A. J.: - A. J. Jacobs is the editor of What It Feels Like and the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Year of Living Biblically and...
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An Eight Year Goodbye: A MemoirSamuel Valenti was an unpretentious, humble man who required very little in life to make him happy. He grew up during the Great Depression, working on the family farm in New Jersey, growing tomatoes to sell to Campbell Soup Company. Seeing the Hindenburg fly...
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The Last Bohemian: Brian Desmond Hurst, Irish Film, British CinemaThe Last Bohemian offers the first extended, critical evaluation of all of Brian Desmond Hurst's films, reappraising the reputation of a director who was born in 1895 in Belfast and died in Belgravia, London, in 1986. Pettitt skillfully weaves together film analyses, biography, and...
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Fifty Missions Over EuropeWhen John Shular died in 1996, his family found a diary detailing the fifty missions he had flown as a bombardier aboard a B-17 in the Second World War. He spoke to no one of the diary during his life.In Fifty Missions over Europe,...
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The Failure Book: How 22 Extraordinary People Persisted to Beat the Odds (and How You Can Too)When faced with failure these 22 accomplished artists athletes scientists advocates business and national leaders each found ways to persist. In learning about their struggles young readers can identify ways to harness failure to create the grit needed to succeed.Author: Karen LillyPublisher: Behrman House...
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'Charlie, Don't Be a Hero': A Mother's Story of the Extraordinary Life of Her Son, U.S. Navy SEAL Charles Keating IV'Charlie, Don't Be a Hero' is a moving story from a mother's heart about her son, Charles Keating IV, an All-American boy who grew up to become a heroic U.S. Navy SEAL. At age thirty-one, his death by ISIS in 2016 on the battlefields...
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Michael Gold: The People's WriterJewish American Communist writer and cultural figure Michael Gold (1893-1967) was a key progressive author of his generation, yet today his work is too often forgotten. A novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, journalist, and editor, Gold was the leading advocate of leftist, proletarian literature in...
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I'll Have The ChickenI'll Have the Chicken is a collection of engaging stories from former Navy and commercial pilot Captain Robert Kavula. The book gives readers an intimate look from the other side of the cockpit door and some of the decisions made before and during flight....
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Michael Haneke: InterviewsSpanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind his output. By the time Haneke (b. 1942) emerged into the international spotlight as...
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Twelve Years a SlaveTwelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C.,...
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The Last MosaicLiterary Nonfiction. Art. Poetry. Italian Studies. Haunted by three thousand years of artists who made pilgrimage to the Eternal City, collaborators Elizabeth Cooperman and Thomas Walton gather impressions from the ruinous streets in and around Rome. The result is a literary mosaic that aligns...
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Life on the Fringes: A Feminist Journey Toward Traditional Rabbinic OrdinationPart memoir, part commentary, Life on the Fringes charts a startling Jewish feminist journey both solitary and engaging. Haviva Ner-David draws us into the many facets of her life's story: a complex modern Orthodox childhood (including a battle with anorexia); adherence to a unique...
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Flesh and Stones: Field Notes from a Finite WorldIn this book of creative nonfiction set in Michigan, Jan Shoemaker shares her quest and her vision. The lovely writing is also poiinted in its questioning. Pieces treat Nature, relationships, teaching, age, love. Most of these essays have been previously published in fine literary...
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Dine Tah: My Reservation Days 1923?1939The bicultural story of a childhood on the Navajo Reservation. In this engaging memoir, Girdner tells the story of his childhood on the Navajo Reservation during the early 20th century. Girdner is the son of Plymouth Brethren missionaries who lived in the remote eastern...
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