Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His TimesFrom the author of Unlikely Allies and Indivisible comes the remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States. No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on...
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Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and MeFrom Condoleezza Rice, former secretary of state and New York Times bestselling author of Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom, comes a captivating memoir of her remarkable childhood. Condoleezza Rice's life began in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1950s, a place and time...
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Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American IndependenceFrom New York Times bestselling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes the astonishing biography of the man whose pen set America ablaze, inspiring its revolution, and whose ideas about reason and religion continue to try men's souls. Thomas Paine's words were...
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The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last TycoonFascinating...A richly detailed portrait. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland shooting and a...
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Down Second AvenueEs'kia Mphahlele's seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa--available for the first time in Penguin Classics Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es'kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue...
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Yes We Did: Photos and Behind-The-Scenes Stories Celebrating Our First African American PresidentEight years in the White House went by so fast. That's why I'm so grateful that Lawrence was there to capture them. I hope you enjoy his work as much as I do.--From the foreword by Barack Obama When Lawrence Jackson took the job...
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On the Court With...Kevin DurantDiscover the amazing achievements of beloved basketball superstar Kevin Durant in this exciting and comprehensive new biography! From his days as the skinny kid on youth teams to his MVP season with the Oklahoma City Thunder to his first NBA Championship with the Golden...
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Trailblazers: Jane Goodall: A Life with ChimpsBring history home and meet some of the world's greatest game changers Get inspired by the true story of a famous researcher who studied chimpanzees. This biography series is for kids who loved Who Was? and are ready for the next level. In July...
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To the Stars: Autobiography of George TakeiBest known as Mr. Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise(TM) and captain of the Starship Excelsior, George Takei is beloved by millions as part of the command team that has taken audiences to new vistas of adventure in Star Trek(R)--the unprecedented television and feature...
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The Most Beautiful: My Life with PrinceAt the one-year anniversary of his death, legendary musician Prince's first wife shares a uniquely intimate, candid, and revelatory look inside the personal and professional life of one of the world's most beloved icons. In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired by the hit...
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In Unison: The Unfinished Story of Jeremy and Adrienne CampAnd the greatest of these is... Jeremy Camp became a GRAMMY(R)-nominated singer and songwriter, released four gold albums, and received two American Music Awards nominations. While on a three-month-long tour, Jeremy met and built a friendship with the lead singer of another band. In...
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Don't Put Me In, Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the BenchAn irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits ). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007...
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BecomingAn intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL...
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Che Guevara: A Manga BiographyAn extraordinary illustrated graphic novel about the legendary political figure Che Guevara. His name is equated with rebellion, revolution, and socialism. His face is on tee-shirts all over the world. Che Guevara's life has been explored and portrayed in numerous books and films, including...
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Betty & Friends: My Life at the ZooAmerica's sweetheart, impassioned lifelong animal welfare advocate, and New York Times bestselling author Betty White shares intimate, funny, and enlightening stories about her very best friends in the world... All her life, Betty White has had a menagerie of pets, many of them rescued,...
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Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for HomeAlready hailed as "brave, emotional, and gorgeously written" by Frances Mayes and "like a piece of dark chocolate--bittersweet, satisfying, and finished all too soon" by Laura Fraser, author of An Italian Affair, this is a unique memoir about the search for identity through love,...
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Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, DOS Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in WarAfter meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a lost generation shaken by war. Eager to find his way in...
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Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and MotherhoodA thoughtful and incisive meditation on literature, motherhood, and spiritual wellbeing from the author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick) After the birth of her first child, Elif Shafak experienced a profound personal crisis. Plagued by guilt, anxiety, and...
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Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope DancerA stunning picture book biography about the tightrope walker who dazzled Paris as she danced across the sky with impeccable balance and unparalleled skill during the French Revolution. In revolutionary France, a girl named Marguerite Lalanne longed to perform above large crowds on a...
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But Enough about Me: A MemoirA scandalous, sentimental, no-holds-barred, New York Times bestselling memoir from one of Hollywood's most legendary stars. Burt Reynolds was a Hollywood leading man known for his legendary performances, sex symbol status, and infamous Hollywood romances. In his decades of stardom, Reynolds saw it all....
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