Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Life of Singleton: From Boyz N the Hood to SnowfallThe Life of Singleton is the definitive account of film icon John Singleton's life and times. John Singleton became a living legend at just 24 years old when he earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Boyz N the...
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The Life of / La Vida de ValenzuelaIntroduce your little ones to the legendary life of baseball icon Fernando Valenzuela--on and off the field--in both English & Spanish!Introduce your little ones to one of baseball's greatest legends in English and Spanish! Fernando Valenzuela was born on November 1, 1960, in a...
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The Life of / La Vida de Ritchie: A Bilingual Picture Book BiographyA Lil' Libros Bilingual BiographyIntroduce little ones to the life of legendary Ritchie Valens in both English and Spanish!Born May 13, 1941, Richard Steven Valenzuela, better known as Ritchie Valens, was a Mexican-American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His musical journey began in Pacoima, California,...
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The Life of / La Vida de Celia: A Bilingual Picture Book BiographyA Lil' Libros Bilingual BiographyKnown for her powerful voice and eccentric style, Celia Cruz has become one of the most popular singers in the world. In this book you'll introduce little ones to her remarkable life. Known as the "Queen of Salsa", the incomparable...
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The Life of Anthony: With Contemplations by Pope Shenouda IIIBorn in Egypt, and author of some of the earliest examples of monastic literature, St Anthony has been influential across the world, from the East to the West. To this day his life stands as a testimony to the ascetical life, which was both...
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The Life and Times of Jim BridgerAuthor: Bill MarkleyPublisher: Farcountry PressPublished: 09/01/2025Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.55dISBN: 9781560378402
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The Life and Diary of David BrainerdIn our timidity and our shoddy opportunism, we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction. David Brainerd was such a man."Let every preacher read carefully over the Life of David Brainerd." - John...
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The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of DachauThe untold story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War--now a Netflix original series starring Jose Miguel Vasquez, Bryan Hibbard, and Bradley James "Exceptional . . . worthy addition to vibrant classics of small-unit history like Stephen...
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The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George IIIThe last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will completely change the way readers and historians view his...
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The Last Honest Man: The Cia, the Fbi, the Mafia, and the Kennedys--And One Senator's Fight to Save DemocracyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "Timely and long overdue... This book should be required reading."―Tom O'Neill, author of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties In this "gripping . . ....
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The Journal of John Woolman and a Plea for the PoorThe "journal" or spiritual autobiography of John Woolman was the characteristic literary expression of Quakerism in its first two centuries. Woolman's Journal was first published in 1774 (shortly after his death). His life, as recorded by himself, was the finest flower of a unique...
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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861Henry David Thoreau's Journal was his life's work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right--one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday...
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The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband*A New York Times Bestseller* A warm and hilarious memoir by a man diagnosed with Asperger syndrome who sets out to save his relationship. Five years after David Finch married Kristen, the love of his life, they learned that he has Asperger syndrome. The...
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The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End DeafnessFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize "Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail" (Steve Silberman), this "provocative, sensitive, beautifully written biography" (Sylvia Nasar) tells the true--and troubling--story of Alexander Graham Bell's...
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The Innocents Abroad: Or, the New Pilgrims' ProgressThe Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American "New Barbarians" and the European "Old World" provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain--and a remarkably...
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The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the AntarcticHeroic Explorer of the Antarctic. At the turn of the twentieth century, Antarctica is the last unexplored continent. The ice is unforgiving. It can break the human spirit. It takes many men willing to face hardship, danger, and years away from home to journey...
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The House of Beauty: Lessons from the Image IndustrySo begins Arabelle Sicardi's blazingly original collection of essays. A former beauty editor, Arabelle has devoted their entire adult life to the subject of beauty--they have analyzed it, criticized it, praised it, benefited from it, loathed it. Now, in The House of Beauty, they...
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The House by the SeaHere she found the peace and aloneness she sought--and partly feared. The journal records the renewing of her life and work in this place.Author: May SartonPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 290Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80dISBN: 9780393313901Review Citation(s): New...
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, RAM Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America"[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read." --Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of...
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The Happy Hooker: My Own StoryThe 30th anniversary edition of one of the modern classics of the sexual revolution--with a new Afterword by the author.An international phenomenon upon its initial publication in 1972, The Happy Hooker established Xaviera Hollander--previously the most powerful madam in New York City--as the world's...
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