Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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P.S. I Think of You Often: A Journey Into UnderstandingFrom time to time, we may all feel lost, alone, and terribly confused. For Rose, it started in childhood. As an overly sensitive child, unable to get a handle on where she was or why she was, the only way Rose could get to...
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Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in AmericaElizabeth Wurtzel's New York Times best-selling memoir, with a new afterword "Sparkling, luminescent prose . . . A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back." --New York Times "A book that became a cultural touchstone." --New Yorker Elizabeth...
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Prince: The Last Interview: And Other ConversationsA collection of the very first, the very last, and the very best interviews conducted with Prince over his nearly 40 year career. There is perhaps no musician who has had as much influence on the sound of contemporary American music than Prince. His...
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Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, DiplomatIn striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn Allen, the acknowledged founder of Native American literary studies, draws on sources often overlooked...
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Pinchback: America's First Black GovernorBorn to a formerly enslaved mother and a white planter father, P. B. S. Pinchback (1837-1921) became the first African American governor in the United States. His tenure as governor of Louisiana was brief--a mere thirty-five days--but he remains one of the most prominent...
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Piety and Personality: The Temperaments of the SaintsAre you grappling with traits that feel more flawed than saintly? Whether you're impulsive like St. Peter, assertive like St. Paul, or even unpredictable like St. Mary Magdalene, your unique personality is not just a path to heaven, but a canvas for holiness. God...
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Philip Roth: Stung by LifeA landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Philip Roth (1933-2018), one of America's most celebrated writers. Born in Newark, New Jersey--where his...
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Pearl Jam Live!: 35 Years of Legendary Music and Revolutionary ShowsA must-have for every Pearl Jam fan, this beautifully designed volume traces 35 years of the groundbreaking grunge group through photos, interviews, and all the fascinating facts. Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder, and Matt Cameron are Seattle's own alternative rock band...
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Patrimony: A True Story (National Book Critics Circle Award Winner)WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - "A tough-minded, beautifully written memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) about a son watching his elderly father battle with the brain tumor that will kill him--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral. Patrimony, a true story,...
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Party Crash Your Career & Life: Be Bold, Risk Safely, and Succeed Without an InvitationAt one point in our lives or another, we have all had the experience of wanting to try our hand at something we have no business trying. Whether it's striking out on a new career path or asking someone out who's out of our...
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Papillon [Movie Tie-In]"A modern classic of courage and excitement." --The New YorkerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHARLIE HUNNAM AND RAMI MALEKHenri Charrière, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced...
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Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution"The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran's Paid For fuses the memoirist's lived poignancy with the philosopher's conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides all anyone needs to know about the reality of...
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Padre Pio: Stories and Memories of My Mentor and FriendThis colorful memoir offers a rare, up-close glimpse of the life and personality of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, the beloved Italian monk who was blessed with extraordinary gifts.The late Fr. Amorth--well-known as an exorcist --enjoyed over two decades of a close friendship with the...
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Over to You: Letters Between a Father and SonCompelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art, memory, life, death, and beyond. Written between 2015-16, with 53 color images...
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Over EasyA fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the late 70s After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret takes a waitressing job at local Oakland fixture: the Imperial Café. Here an impressionable young woman transforms into...
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Out There: Dispatches from My Personal WildernessOut There recounts one man's search to lead an authentic life, an adventure that takes him all over the world and through some of the biggest societal changes of recent history. From a distance, this could be a typical American story: boy grows up...
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Other People's MothersA nostalgic and poignant coming-of-agestory told through one young woman's relationships with the mother figures inher life Relationshipsbetween mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fraught. Even in thebest of circumstances, many of us may have grown up curious about the mothersof our...
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Orphan Bachelors: A MemoirCALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR NONFICTIONFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a...
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On Thin Ice: An LAPD Veteran's Journey to Reimagine Policing"POLICING IS ON THIN ICE. It's up to us to reimagine what happens next." -Jeff WenningerOn Thin Ice delivers an unflinching look inside the American law enforcement from a voice who's lived it. With over 30 years in the LAPD and direct oversight of...
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On the Rocks: The Primadonna StoryOn the Rocks chronicles the real-life journey of restaurateur Joseph Costanzo Jr., from his rise to success in the 1990s as a owner of the highly acclaimed Primadonna Restaurant, radio host, columnist, and aspiring politician to his sharp fall in the early 2000s, ending...
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