Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Rocket Boys: A Memoir#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "nostalgic and entertaining memoir" (People) about a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space--the inspiration for the film October Sky "A message of hope in an age of cynicism. . . ....
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild WestA New York Times Notable Book Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, The Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Sally Hacker Prize for the History of Technology "A panoramic vision of cultural change" --The New York Times Through the story...
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Ringo: With a Little HelpRingo: With a Little Help is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm. With a Little Help...
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir***Now an International Bestseller!***A Publisher's Weekly Pick of 2024!"Distinctively Japanese musings on meaning and connection."--ObserverI'm starting a service... available for any situation in which all you want is a person to be there. Maybe there's a restaurant you want to go to, but you...
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Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge: The Gripping Story That Inspired the Movie"When we go into combat, Doss, you're not comin' back alive. I'm gonna shoot you myself!"The men of the 77th Infantry Division couldn't fathom why Private Desmond T. Doss would venture into the horrors of World War II without a single weapon to defend...
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A MemoirShortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for BiographyLonglisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from...
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Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood PlayerNamed One of The Hollywood Reporter's "100 Greatest Film Books of All Time" Famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids, Machete) discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his...
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Queering Constellations: Mapping This Journey Called LifeQueering Constellations is an interactive memoir of a queer Hindu Buddhist immigrant told through letters, poetry, art, and stories. Spanning Raja's unique experiences that touch on universal themes of love, loss, pleasure, and self-acceptance, this book engages the reader to reflect on their own...
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Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints, and Queerness Through the AgesFeaturing 50 profiles and select B&W illustrated portraits, Heroes of Queer Myth & Legend is a celebration of gay gods and goddesses, sapphic sirens, misunderstood mermen, and lesbians of legend. Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of...
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North KoreaThe perennial graphic novel about a "hermit country," with a new cover and an introduction by Gore Verbinski Guy Delisle's Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea is the graphic novel that made his career, an international bestseller for more than ten years. Delisle became...
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PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. KennedyThe extraordinary World War II story of shipwreck and survival that paved John F. Kennedy's path to power - hailed as a "breathtaking account" by James Patterson, "masterfully written" by historian Douglas Brinkley, and "the finest book" ever written on the subject by Lt....
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Private Equity: A MemoirOne of TIME Magazine's Must-Read Books of the Year "The joys of Sun's memoir lie in the absurdity of her tasks: coaxing a famous athlete to a company party, sourcing Mitt Romney's phone number on a deadline, coordinating private-jet departures... It's [Sun's] personal revelations...
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Positively UncivilizedInaugural winner of Raven Chronicles Press's Keepers of the Fire Prize for Nonfiction in 2025, Positively Uncivilized examines, from an Indigenous perspective, the impact of human inhabitants on the planet Earth. Alongside personal accounts of the deterioration of salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest...
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Poems: Maya Angelou"Maya Angelou writes like a song, and like the truth."--The New York Times Book Review "Black, bitter and beautiful, she speaks of our survival."--JAMES BALDWIN Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only...
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Paul: A BiographyIn this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright offers a radical look at the apostle Paul, illuminating the humanity and remarkable achievements of this intellectual who invented Christian theology--transforming a faith and changing the world.For centuries, Paul,...
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Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That LastThe New York Times bestseller! "A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand the test of time." --Eric Asimov, The New York Times "Bourbon is for sharing, and so is Pappyland."--The Wall Street Journal The story of how Julian Van Winkle...
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Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious LivingParks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman--who better to deliver this tutelage than the always...
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Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock StoryWinner of the 2018 Green Earth Book Award. This picture book biography examines the life and career of naturalist and artist Anna Comstock (1854-1930), who defied social conventions and pursued the study of science. From the time she was a young girl, Anna Comstock...
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Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without ChildrenIn a world that expects all women to become mothers, what happens to those who circumvent motherhood? Now and throughout history, women without children have been misunderstood and even vilified for not conforming to the prescriptive path of daughter, wife, mother, whether by choice,...
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Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First CenturyGeorge Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own--rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies--make his...
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