Biographies & Autobiographies books

Explores how generations of biographers shaped, reinvented, and fabricated the life of Geoffrey Chaucer Very little...  Read More >>

Grounded in her experience as a blackbelt, self-defense instructor, and globally recognized organizer, Rana Abdelhamid...  Read More >>

When Marian Rutt gave birth to her medically fragile son, Philip, her world shifted in a single hour. What followed...  Read More >>

Michael Calvey is a pioneering US-born financier, who made his fortune in post-Communist Russia. This is the story...  Read More >>

Drawing on the letters, photographs, drawings, maps and craftwork they exchanged with humanitiarian activists, this...  Read More >>

A gorgeously readable, insightful dual biography of British brother and sister artists Gwen and Augustus John, perfect...  Read More >>

For true crime readers obsessed with learning the full story, get the book that Publishers Weekly calls a ""stirring...  Read More >>

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A remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of the '90s alternative era by the bassist of Hole and The Smashing...  Read More >>

""Anyone that's a Robert Mitchum fan: Man! You've got to find this book by Mitchum's brother, John...a hilarious...  Read More >>

Contextualizes Pablo Neruda's opus by including 42 essays focusing on his journeys, the Cold War, and how literary...  Read More >>

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'Elsa Schiaparelli was more than a dressmaker; she was an image maker.' - Daniel Roseberry  Read More >>

In Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Patricia Dunlavy Valenti presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's spouse on her own terms,...  Read More >>

In Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Patricia Dunlavy Valenti presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's spouse on her own terms,...  Read More >>

Richard III is England's most controversial king. Forever associated with the murder of his nephews, the Princes...  Read More >>

This is the story of Joe Mac, a mysterious figure in the Boston underworld, founder of the Winter Hill Gang in the...  Read More >>

A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the...  Read More >>

Oliver James went viral on TikTok after he shared five simple words: “What's up? I can't read.” Thus began a journey...  Read More >>

A comprehensive resource on Cleopatra’s life and legacy.  Read More >>

A new study, for first time revealing the story of Greenvile Collins, hugely significant historical character, cartographer...  Read More >>

Colonel Richard E ""Butch"" Sheffield was a working-class boy from Ohio, who was determined to make his life, exceptional....  Read More >>

""Never discount an old man in a profession where people tend to die young.This book has more wisdom in it than...  Read More >>