Biographies & Autobiographies books

A sparkling memoir and portrait of trailblazing artist Liliane Lijn as a young woman In 1958, talented and fearless...  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 >>

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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 >>

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

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

""An observant, lyrical memoir exploring what owls can teach us about nature, chronic illness, and ourselves""--...  Read More >>

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""This book examines how America's imagined frontier history shaped the thinking of philosopher John Dewey. It explores...  Read More >>

Dans cette biographie finement ciselée du premier ministre acadien Louis J. Robichaud, du Nouveau-Brunswick, Donald...  Read More >>

From the rodeo arena to the silver screen--Ben Johnson's true Western tale  Read More >>

The first biography of the jazz legend and his journey from Texas to the cutting edge of bebop  Read More >>

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

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The Coast is Our Compass recalls a pilgrimage around England's coastline. More than a walking memoir, it explores...  Read More >>

For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States,...  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 >>