Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Who Was Michelangelo?Travel to Renaissance Italy and learn about the young apprentice who went on become a true master, and one of the most beloved sculptors and painters of all time in this addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series! Michelangelo created...
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Who Was Isaac Newton?Isaac Newton was always a loner, preferring to spend his time contemplating the mysteries of the universe. When the plague broke out in London in 1665 he was forced to return home from college. It was during this period of so much death, that...
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Who Was Ben Franklin?Ben Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is electricity. He was also a statesman, an inventor, a printer, and an author-a man of such amazingly varied talents that some people claimed he had magical powers! Full...
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Who Is Taylor Swift?: Deluxe EditionLearn how a young girl who once lived on a Christmas tree farm grew up to become one of the most celebrated musical artists of the twenty-first century in this deluxe addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series. This gorgeous deluxe edition...
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Who Is Malala Yousafzai?Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words...
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat TillmanNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "gripping book about this extraordinary man who lived passionately and died unnecessarily" (USA Today) in post-9/11 Afghanistan, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.In 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to...
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Where I Was from: A MemoirFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Notes to John: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline" (The Baltimore Sun), Didion--a native Californian--reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Didion applies her scalpel-like...
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What the Bears Know: How I Found Truth and Magic in America's Most Misunderstood Creatures--A Memoir by Animal Planet's the Bear WhispererThe incredible story of how one man went from a hired hunter to becoming one of America's top champions for this iconic animal. **A Los Angeles Times and USA Today Bestseller** In this wondrous and eye-opening exploration, Steve Searles, the renowned and respected "Bear...
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What Rich Clients Want: (But Won't Tell You)How to Attract and Serve the World's Wealthiest ClientsYou want to build a successful service business with high-end clientele. But you don't know what matters to the affluent and why. You're looking for a proven process to earn their business, build trust, offer more...
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk about: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence"You will devour these beautifully written--and very important--tales of honesty, pain, and resilience" (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don't talk about with our mothers affects...
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What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful BlessingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "This book is the inspirational story that we all need. No one makes me laugh harder than Leanne Morgan!"--Reese Witherspoon Look for Leanne Morgan's new sitcom, Leanne, and her hit standup special, I'm Every Woman, both available on Netflix....
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West with the Night: A MemoirA new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time Beryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen....
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We Loved It All: A Memory of LifeAcross more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet's distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines the precision of fact with the power of narrative to evoke our enmeshment with...
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Washington: A LifeFrom the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Truly magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written...
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the MovementThe award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of our most important records of the American civil rights movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a "national treasure," this is a gripping first-hand account of theAuthor: John Lewis,Michael D'OrsoPublisher: Simon...
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Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and JusticeThe "moving, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir" (Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy) by one of America's most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers--who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity. David Tatel...
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Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of DesireA "lively, wide-ranging" (TheTimes, UK)cultural history of the goddess of love Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an...
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Unshrinking: How to Face FatphobiaNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it--from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled "An elegant, fierce, and profound...
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Unbroken (the Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to CaptiveIn this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian's courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new...
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption. "Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic."--The Wall Street Journal Hailed as...
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