Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Lullabies for the Insomniacs: A Memoir in VerseA teen with bipolar disorder fights for survival in Ella Grace Foutz's memoir in verse. Foutz weaves an intimate and gripping chronicle of her experience with mental illness. Amidst the turbulence of manic and depressive episodes, often accompanied by insomnia, Foutz relentlessly pursues stability...
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Lucy & Desi: The Love LettersA treasure trove of previously unseen love letters between Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, spanning their courtship through I Love Lucy fame and beyond, tells the couple's real-life love story in their own words, alongside rare photos from the family scrapbooks. After Lucille Ball's...
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left BehindAfter enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In...
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Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial MarriageA dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their time Like any set of star-crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Massachusetts Berkshires, traveled...
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Look at Me!: The Xxxtentacion StoryA compelling biography of SoundCloud sensation and rising star XXXTENTACION -- from his candid songwriting and connection with fans to his tragic death. At the age of twenty, rapper Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy-aka XXXTENTACION-was gunned down during an attempted robbery on the streets of Deerfield...
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Liftoff!: How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas's Art SoarThe Apollo astronauts gave people a new way of looking at the world--and so did modern artist Alma Thomas. In 1969, people around the world watched as the Apollo 10 astronauts sent the first-ever live color television broadcasts from space. Abstract painter Alma Thomas...
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Legends of Women's Figure SkatingWith their flying spins and graceful leaps over the ice, figure skaters exemplify what it means to be an athlete and an artist. Legends of Women's Figures Skating features short biographies of twenty-eight of the greatest women figure skaters of all time, from pioneers...
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Last Ship to FreedomAs the Russian Civil War reached its final, tumultuous stages, 11-year-old Lydia Komarkoff and her parents had already spent 11 months living aboard the steamship Kherson adrift in the Black Sea, seeking refuge from the chaos engulfing their homeland. But on November 14, 1920,...
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Jason Belongs: The Story of Jason Schachter McKinneyThe true story of Jason Schachter McKinney. Jason has a big voice. He sings everywhere--until a whisper runs through his Jewish day school: Jason is Black. Is he really Jewish? "Can I be both Black and Jewish?" wonders Jason. He stops caring about Jewish...
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Jackson Pollock Splashed Paint and Wasn't SorryA clever, charmingly quirky portrayal of painter Jackson Pollock - and the first in a series of picture-book biographies of contemporary artistsJackson Pollock was unlike any other painter. Instead of sitting in front of an easel with brushes, he poured paint over canvases rolled-out...
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I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical JourneyIn I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He...
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It Takes a Lifetime to Learn How to Live: An Italian American story of coming homeIt Takes a Lifetime to Learn How to Live is an intimate, multigenerational Italian American memoir immersed in the legacies of secrets, silence, and sacrifice of Southern Italy. In 1915, Carmela leaves the remote village of Rotondella. Her daughter, Laura, grows up determined to...
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Intimations: Six EssaysThe New York Times Bestseller "[Smith's] slim collection of essays captures this peculiar moment with startling clarity. . . . The personal and political intermingle for a powerful indictment of America's social systems." --TIME "While quarantined amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Smith penned six dazzling,...
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Inspiring OthersYoung Changemakers is an inspirational series all about real kids from around the globe doing extraordinary things to make a difference in their communities and the world!Inspiring Others is filled with stories of young people who saw a need for change and were inspired...
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Inspirational Football GOATS Stories, Amazing Facts, and Trivia Games: The Ultimate Football Gift Book for Kids and Teens!Looking for That Perfect Book for Football Lovers That Entertains and Educates Your Young Gridiron Star?Want your child or teen to take in mental toughness, perseverance, resilience, and teamwork from football's GOATs while having a blast? This is where it starts! This book delivers...
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Indignity: A Life ReimaginedThe author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination. When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling...
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I'm Eighteen and School's Out: How the Journey Between Two Rock Anthems Took the Alice Cooper Group from Obscurity to International InfamyThe Alice Cooper group are one of the most influential rock bands of all time. And yet, when the histories of popular music are written, they are often in the margins or even overlooked completely. This book redresses that and puts the spotlight on...
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If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a MissionVeteran reporter Jo Piazza profiles ten extraordinary nuns and the causes to which they have dedicated their lives--from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a sassy campaigner for equal wealth distribution Meet Sister Simone Campbell, who traversed the United States challenging a Republican budget that...
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IcebergMost people only ever see the surface of a story. Iceberg invites you to see what's underneath.On the surface, it's the account of a run across Canada and back-over 21,000 kilometres-to raise awareness for Alzheimer's and breast cancer. But at its heart, it's about...
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I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to reclaim Her HeritageIn 1969, Ann-Marie's parents did the unthinkable, leaving a Hutterite colony with their seven children to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and did not understand them in this powerful story of understanding how...
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