Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Jesse Owens: An American LifeBorn the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse Owens used his astonishing drive and athletic ability to win an unprecedented four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He became an international superstar overnight and...
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Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and ListeningBlind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of detail the surprise that comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is an art to eavesdropping. Like Annie Dillard's An American Childhood or Dorothy...
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Betsy Ross: Designer of Our FlagBetsy Ross is remembered as the maker of the first American flag, which was secretly presented to General George Washington in Philadelphia in 1776. But what was she like as a kid? In this narrative biography, you'll learn all about the childhood of Betsy...
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The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham: Selected Writings of the Wall Street LegendBenjamin Graham ist eine der legendären Gestalten der Wall Street. Mit der Zeit stieg sein Ruf, und heute ist seine Investment-Philosophie bemerkenswert populär und anerkannt. Janet Lowe förderte durch akribische Forschung Schriftstücke, Artikel, Briefe und Abhandlungen der illustren Persönlichkeit zutage, bisher selten oder nicht...
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The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939Beginning with Nin's arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the artist in the modern world. "Sensitive and frank...[Nin's] diary...
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The Black Prince and the Sea Devils: The Story of Valerio Borghese and the Elite Units of the Decima MASAt the beginning of World War II, Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, dashing Italian nobleman, assembled the famous Decima MAS naval unit-the first modern naval commando squad. Borghese's "frogmen" were trained to fight undercover and underwater with small submarines and assault boats armed with a...
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Thing of BeautyAt age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and...
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Thomas Harriot: A Life in ScienceAs Robyn Arianrhod shows in this new biography, the most complete to date, Thomas Harriot was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. Navigational adviser and loyal friend to Sir Walter Ralegh, Harriot--whose life was almost exactly contemporaneous to Shakespeare's--took part in...
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Traitors Among UsAs director of the elite Foreign Counterintelligence Activity, author Stuart Herrington was the U.S. Army's top counterintelligence officer. In this thrilling and informative account he details one of the most damaging and delicate cases of espionage ever committed against the United States. Between 1972...
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In Full Flight: One Woman's Quest for Atonement in AfricaAs a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years, earning herself the cherished nickname "Mama Daktari"--"Mother Doctor." Yet few knew that what drove her from post-World...
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Big Bankroll PBArnold Rothstein (1882-1928) was described in the newspapers of the 1920s as a sportsman, a gambler, and the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. But he was much more than that. A bootlegger and labor racketeer, he corrupted politicians, promoted crooked stock sales,...
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Autobiography of Andrew T. Still: With a History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy, Together with an Account of the SchoolAndrew T. Still, the founder of osteopathic medicine, reveals how he matured into a medical pioneer from humble beginnings in the rural frontier of the United States. Beginning with his upbringing in rural Missouri, we witness how Still became accustomed to practicality at a...
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Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American DreamAmerica was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society. He spent the rest of his life trying to return. Though he failed, he pointed the way for others, who...
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Carla Connor - Alison King! Queen of Coronation Street!Alison Rosamund King, born on 3rd March 1973, in Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicestershire, England, UK, is an actress and model. She's had TV roles as Lynda Block in the Sky One drama series Dream Team, followed by Coronation Street as Mrs Fanshaw for an...
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Washington: The Indispensable ManAfter more than two decades, this dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of James Thomas Flexner's definitive four-volume biography George Washington, which received a Pulitzer Prize citation and a National Book Award for the fourth volume, has itself become an American classic. Now in a...
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Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their CircleA uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married),...
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Mary Slessor of Calabar: Biography of a Christian Woman; A Scottish Presbyterian Missionary in AfricaA pioneering woman missionary hailing from Aberdeen in Scotland, Mary Slessor's journey to Nigeria set an example to all Christian missions; she gained the trust, respect and thanks of the local peoples, and introduced the gospel of Christ. Most notably from a social viewpoint,...
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When in French: Love in a Second LanguageA language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier--a surprising turn of events for someone who didn't have a passport until she was in...
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Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.A hugely popular bestseller when it first appeared in 1957, Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. is Robert Paul Smith's nostalgic and often wry look back on his 1920s childhood. Smith agitates against what he perceives as the over-scheduled and...
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Leap Into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime EuropeA harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" (Library Journal). Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Nazis (and others) not once, but seven times during his...
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