Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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In Defense of All God's Children: The Life and Ministry of Bishop Christopher SenyonjoNothing in the background of Bishop Christopher Senyonjo would have predicted that, late in life, he would become an international spokesperson for the rights of LGBTQ people in his native Uganda and around the world. Raised traditionally, he was a failed medical student turned...
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Bay Boy: Stories of a Childhood in Point Clear, AlabamaA charming, humorous, and colorful coming-of-age memoir Bay Boy is a collection of essays by award-winning young adult author Watt Key, chronicling his boyhood in Point Clear, Alabama. During his childhood, Point Clear was not the tony enclave of today with its spas, art...
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Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen GinsbergWith the sweep of an epic novel, Michael Schumacher tells the story of Allen Ginsberg and his times, with fascinating portraits of Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, among others, along with many rarely seen photographs. Author: Michael SchumacherPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPublished:...
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Adorno in America"For those inclined to dismiss Adorno's take on America as the uncomprehending condescension of a mandarin elitist, David Jenemann's splendid new book will come as a rude awakening. Exploiting a wealth of new sources, he persuasively shows the depth of Adorno's engagement with the...
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Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark BasketsThe author relates his own life experiences to offer a view of contemporary Native American life.Author: Jim NorthrupPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPublished: 10/15/1999Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 7.47h x 5.03w x 0.55dISBN: 9780816634958This title is only available via back order
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One Family's Response to Terrorism: A Daughter's MemoirOn January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the back of the head as he stepped out of an elevator on his way to work. At the time,...
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The Dance of the Rose and the NightingaleThis is an extraordinary autobiography of a young girl growing up in Iran. The daughter of an English Christian mother and an Iranian Zoroastrian father, Nesta Ramazani sketches her personal life story against the backdrop of a society marked by the fusion of Iranian,...
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Joseph Brant, 1743-1807: Man of Two WorldsAuthor: Isabel Thompson KelsayPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublished: 03/01/1984Pages: 792Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.29lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.08w x 1.58dISBN: 9780815602088About the AuthorIsabel Thompson Kelsay was born in Appalachia. In a small local school she fell in love with history and has involved herself in it, in...
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Man of the WoodsHerbert F. Keith lives between two worlds and is at home in both. His is the last mown lawn at the edge of the village. South of the iron stakes that mark his property line are twenty-one air miles of unbroken Adirondack forest preserve,...
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Jackson Pollock: A BiographyDeborah Solomon's biography sets Jackson Pollock in his time and portrays him as a shy, often withdrawn person, full of insecurities and self-doubts, and frequently unable to express himself about his art or its meaning. Solomon interviewed two hundred people who knew Pollock and...
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Shahbaz Bhatti: Martyr of the Suffering ChurchWhen Shahbaz Bhatti, the lone Christian in Pakistan's cabinet and a determined campaigner for the rights of Christians and members of other faiths was killed, his Taliban-affiliated assassins probably hoped it would be the end of his influence. Instead, Bhatti's stature has only grown...
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Ceremonial of BishopsThe reform of liturgical rites ordered by the Second Vatican Council necessitated a revision of the Caeremoniale Episcoporum, published in 1886. The objective of this ceremonial is to provide a liturgy for bishops that will stand as a model for all other celebrations.The eight...
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Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for SerenityAlthough his best-known project was the World Trade Center in New York City, Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) worked to create moments of surprise, serenity, and delight in distinctive buildings around the world. In his adopted home of Detroit, where he lived and...
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Apocalypse, DarlingFrom award-winning author Barrie Jean Borich comes Apocalypse, Darling, a narrative, lyric exploration of the clash between old and new. Set in the steel mill regions of Chicago and in Northwest Indiana, the story centers on Borich's return to a decimated landscape for a...
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Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs, Revised EditionIn late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William Burroughs began a notebook of final reflections on his four years in Latin America. His first novel, Junkie, had just been...
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The Mind of a Patriot: Patrick Henry and the World of IdeasThe Mind of a Patriot presents an intellectual life of a major figure who has traditionally been seen as an anti-intellectual "child of nature." This was the view of Patrick Henry that William Wirt presented in his Life of Henry, and it has pervaded...
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Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two LivesThis book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of...
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The Beast in My HeadThe Beast in My Head is author Sonia Bitca's memoir about her harrowing battle with a brain tumor-which she dubs "the beast"-and her journey from diagnosis, to surgery, hospitalization, and recovery. But it is also much more than that! It is a stream of...
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A Thomas More SourcebookThis source book brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More--poet, scholar, statesman, family man, educational reformer, philosopher, historian, and saint. Thomas More is the first major figure of the English Renaissance, acclaimed in his own age but surprisingly unstudied in our own....
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Warren Oates: A Wild LifeThough he never reached the lead actor status he labored so relentlessly to achieve, Warren Oates (1928--1982) is one of the most memorable and skilled character actors of the 1970s. With his rugged looks and measured demeanor, Oates crafted complex characters who were at...
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