Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Mark Twain & MeSamuel Langhorne Clemens and Dorothy Quick met aboard the S. S. Minnetonka in 1907. He was seventy-two years old, she almost eleven. The two began a great friendship that would endure until his death some years later. Dorothy became a frequent houseguest of Twain's,...
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Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and RecollectionsA Stanford University Press classic.Author: Alice Kimball SmithPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 01/01/1995Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.13w x 1.03dISBN: 9780804726207
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No Equal Justice: The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett Jr.Winner of a Michigan State History Award! Gold Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards!Gold Medal Winner in the Midwest Independent Publisher Awards!Silver Medal Winner in the Foreword Indie Awards!Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards! "There is no equal justice for...
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The River Nuts: Down the Nueces with One StrokeWriter and weekend outdoorsman Avrel Seale had always dreamed of boating down a river to the sea, but he had never found the right boat, the right river, or the right opportunity. Then, at age fifty, he suffered a massive brain hemorrhage, depriving him...
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Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American PoliticsFrom bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had...
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Abraham Lincoln: A LifeHailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is...
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A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among MountainsHonestly portrays the highs and lows of a life dedicated to the outdoors Shares the author's development as an outspoken conservation advocate Story is rooted in the peaks of the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Pakistan How do we reconcile our love of outdoor adventure...
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OpTic Gaming: The Making of eSports ChampionsOpTic Gaming, the four-time Call of Duty Major League Gaming Champions and one of the top eSports teams in the world, now takes fans behind the controller--into the game and the minds of the greatest gamers in the world--in this fascinating and unique memoir...
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The Woman in MeThe Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it...
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The Tunnel at the End of the Light: My Endoscopic Journey in Six DecadesThe author is a physician whose career has spanned six decades, coinciding with and contributing to the remarkable developments in his speciality of gastroenterology, especially the use of flexible endoscopes in diagnosis and treatment. The book describes these changes, but focusses more on his...
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Tomorrow We Get To Do It All AgainHave you ever heard of Jerome Grand Hotel?This wonderful old building that sits near the top of a mountain in the mining town of Jerome, Arizona. A beautiful, majestic building converted from a hospital to a hotel.Join Chris in this short novella, as he...
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Spilling My Guts: A Crohn's ChronicleCrohn's disease is an illness people don't often talk about. Its embarrassing symptoms leave those who suffer from it tethered to the bathroom, never knowing when the next flare-up will have their intestines in agony. This cruel condition slowly destroys the quality of life...
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Diagnosed: Inspirational Stories After an Alarming Medical DiagnosisCan a difficult diagnosis create a stronger faith? On November 3, 2022, Mark and Mary Kay Liston went to the ER to treat a nasty cough that Mark had picked up. After hours, the doctor entered the room and gave Mark the somber diagnosis...
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Diagnosed: Inspirational Stories After an Alarming Medical DiagnosisCan a difficult diagnosis create a stronger faith? On November 3, 2022, Mark and Mary Kay Liston went to the ER to treat a nasty cough that Mark had picked up. After hours, the doctor entered the room and gave Mark the somber diagnosis...
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Gracias, Fidel!: El viaje de un niño escapando de la Cuba de Castro y realizando el sueño americanoQué pasaría si tuvieras que dejar a todo los que amas y todo lo que conoces para comenzar una nueva vida, a los 13 años, solo?Esa es la historia de Nelson A. Díaz, un exitoso ingeniero e inversionista de bienes raíces que huyó solo...
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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola TeslaThe progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This...
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An Accidental AmericanAn Accidental American recalls life in Hitler's Germany, as seen through the eyes of a young girl who later escapes to the United States with her parents. The book tells of kind neighbors, an unforgettable ocean voyage, and bedbugs in Chicago, among other memories.Author:...
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Created in Christ for COVID-19: The story of God's Work through an Infectious Diseases Specialist at an Academic HospitalWhile most were in quarantine during COVID-19, healthcare workers increased their work during that time and infectious diseases doctors, in particular, thrived. Dr. Arnold's children were called home from college, but he left early in the morning and stayed out until late in the...
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EnoughCassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell...
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19 Years to Sunset: Surviving a NarcissistToday I begin to share my testimony, my truth, my story of how a season of my life I had to first love and live with a narcissist. Second, I had to know and understand the narcissist. Third, and more importantly, I had to...
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