Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword: Book 2Milo Manara's Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword Book 2, the second half of Manara's epic two-volume biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter, depicts the tragedy of his years on the run for killing a man in a duel in Rome. With a...
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Caged Lion: Joseph Pilates and His LegacyThe surprising story of Pilates--the man and the method.Part biography, part history, and part memoir, Caged Lion untangles for the first time Joseph Pilates's opaque life story and the perilous journey of his exercise program known the world over as Pilates.This is the story...
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Cactus Queen: Minerva Hoyt Establishes Joshua Tree National ParkA 2025 Bank Street College of Education Cook Prize Silver MedalistThe Nature Generation's 2025 Green Earth Book Award Short List How did the Joshua Tree National Park in California come to be? Meet Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, an artist, activist, and environmentalist, whose determination saved...
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By My Hands: A Potter's Apprenticeship (a Memoir)The internet's favorite potter opens up about his life and craft in this inspiring, stunningly photographed ode to the beauty of small things that brighten life's daily rituals. Florian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection--and...
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Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone AgeWhat happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But what he discovered by trial and error has revolutionized then...
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Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a WomanFrom generational icon Brooke Shields comes an intimate and empowering exploration of aging that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a...
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Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk SingerFirst published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all. Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over--not by jet or motorcycle, but by...
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Blossoming UpwardBlossoming Upward is a step-by-step account of one man following an extraordinary spiritual teacher, becoming a disciple and the miraculous ways this can transform a person. His story moves from the Bronx to India and on to Greece, Afghanistan, and Hawaii; from student activist...
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Bless Him: An Oral HistoryFor Detective Ali Perez and his team, the plan was supposed to be simple--arrest a live-in boyfriend for the documented molestation of his girlfriend's two young daughters and go home. But what happens if arrest is resisted? What happens if the suspect has a...
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Black BoyA special Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human sufferingWhen it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was...
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Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A MemoirFrom a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman's search for home, from Kashmir to England to Saudi Arabia to Michigan to Rome and, finally, to Los Angeles--standalone essays that together form a sweeping portrait of a peripatetic life. "I...
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Big Book of Who BasketballBig Book of WHO is a book your young sports fans will return to again and again! From the editors of Sports Illustrated Kids comes The Big Book of Who: Basketball, a collection of basketball's brightest stars, past and present. Profiles, facts, and stats...
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Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak OutA 2015 Stonewall Honor BookA groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens. Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent...
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Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian's LegacyThe incredible story of the first director of the Morgan Library: a visionary Black woman who walked confidently in an early 20th-century man's world of wealth and privilegePublished with Morgan Library & Museum. When J.P. Morgan's personal library opened as a public institution in...
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black CargoOne of the New York Times' Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years! - New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of...
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Barack Obama: A Little Golden Book BiographyHelp your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about President Barack Obama! The perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers--as well as fans of all ages! This Little Golden Book about Barack Obama--the 44th President of the United States and...
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Bad Boy: A Graphic MemoirA gripping graphic memoir adaptation of iconic, multi-award-winning author Walter Dean Myers's autobiography, telling the story of his coming-of-age in Harlem, adapted by Guy A. Sims and illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile.Legendary author Walter Dean Myers was once a troublemaker and a truant.Just how bad...
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Audrey Hepburn: A Little Golden Book BiographyHelp your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about film legend and humanitarian, Audrey Hepburn. Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers--as well as fans of all ages! This Little Golden Book about Audrey...
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Anything But Bland: Moxie, Murdaugh, and Making Life Happen on Your Own Terms"Anything But Bland is not only the behind-the-scenes of how Eric bravely helped expose and bring down one of South Carolina's most notorious criminals, it's a story about what happens when you make every moment, every action and every decision count toward building a...
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Antoine de Saint-ExupéryIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the talented pilot and writer. Little Antoine grew up in Lyon, France. He was a curious and creative child who enjoyed reading fairy...
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