Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Immemorial"Markham delivers a probing meditation on grief, memory, and memorialization... Plaintive and powerful, this is hard to forget."--Publishers WeeklyA speculative essay on language in the face of climate catastrophe: how we memorialize what has been lost and what soon will be, pushing public imagination...
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I'll Look So Hot in a Coffin: And Other Thoughts I Used to Have about My BodyA "raw, vulnerable, and utterly hilarious" (Harper's Bazaar) memoir about one woman's experience living with a deformity, and her quest to find freedom and joy in her body "Sosenko's experience with body shame and judgment, from herself and others, is universal. She shows us...
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If You Were My Daughter: A Memoir of Healing an Unmothered HeartFrom bestselling children's author Marianne Richmond comes a powerful memoir about overcoming a mother's emotional neglect and finding the courage to reclaim the story of your life."In her beautiful memoir, Richmond bravely finds her way through a legacy of emotional trauma, pulling us into...
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I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 SnapshotsIn this nationally bestselling "delightful compendium of everything you ever wanted to know about" (The Washington Post) Joni Mitchell, the eternal singer-songwriter is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, lyrics by Henry Alford, "the most graceful of humorists"...
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I Don't Want To Grow Up: Life, Liberty, and Happiness. Without a Career.America's bestselling author of Wilderness, The Gateway to the Soul and Nature's Silent Message offers a glimpse into his childhood of skateboarding, high school brawls, and early trials and tribulations with money and success. The scenery may be different, but the writing style is...
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I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living FreeNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"America's Mom" Tabitha Brown presents an inspirational guide for encouraging positive changes in your life--one day and one challenge at a time.I did a new thing today!Years ago, Tabitha Brown started a 30-day personal challenge that she called "I Did a...
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Icy Fruit: How My Grandfather Spread the Joy of Ice Pops Across TaiwanThis fun and fascinating biography of a Taiwanese ice pop entrepreneur--the author's beloved grandfather--is a terrific read-aloud about inventiveness and the treats of summer. Charlotte Cheng's grandfather always had a bag of coins rustling in his pocket. That bag carried with it "a story...
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How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never WillOne of the most distinctive and funny politicians, Senator John Kennedy (the one from Louisiana)--hailed by Politico as "America's most quotable Senator"--offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens.How...
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How to Be a (Young) AntiracistThe #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now in paperback for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide...
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How I Found Myself in the Midwest: A Memoir of ReinventionA passionate testimony to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Midwestern native shares hope in going local. Just after turning forty, Steve Grove left Silicon Valley as a Google executive to move to his home state of Minnesota with his...
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific"A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who--somehow--survived."--Tom HanksSee Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific Here is one of the most...
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 YearsWarm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living...
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Grown Woman Talk: Your Essential Companion for Healthy LivingNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A must-read for anyone who cares about their quality of life . . . Dr. Sharon Malone is the first person I turn to for a whole host of issues, especially my health."--MICHELLE OBAMA A practical guide to aging...
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Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of MosesSt. Gregory of Nyssa (335-394 CE), who came from an illustrious Christian family of Capadocia, became bishop of the small town of Nyssa in 371 and is known as one of the founders of mystical theology in the Church. In The Life of Moses,...
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Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America's Deadliest WaterwayA vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history--and present--of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific...
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Grace Lee Boggs: Gardens of HopeGrace Lee Boggs brought gardens to inner cities and planted seeds of hope and activism in the minds of young people. When Grace Lee Boggs was eight years old, her teacher gave her a copy of The Secret Garden. As a Chinese-American who had...
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Godstruck: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious ConversionA candid, thought-provoking exploration of contemporary women's experiences of religious conversion and the relationship between faith and fulfillment in our time Religious involvement has been declining in the West for decades--and, though men have historically outnumbered women among the disaffiliated in the U.S., a...
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G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American CenturyNow in paperback, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J Edgar Hoover deemed "Masterful...an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work"by The Washington Post (and everywhere else) "Revelatory...an acknowledgment of the complexities that made Hoover who...
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Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American FilmTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling...
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George Washington and the Creation of the American RepublicWashington's strategic genius extended beyond war, laying the foundation for a powerful American Republic. The twentieth-century publication of Washington's writings, and more recently the digital editions of his papers, have provided George Washington's biographers with increased access to the details of his life. Despite...
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