Biographies & Autobiographies books

The powerful NYT bestseller is now in paperback. “Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe...  Read More >>

Evil, Goodness, and Creating Active Bystandership shares the remarkable journey of Ervin Staub, a scholar and actor...  Read More >>

In the search for her truth, Sally Dukes takes the reader on a difficult yet compelling pursuit, the unfolding of...  Read More >>

Making movies is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. Forrest Gump is a beloved and...  Read More >>

Ranging across centuries and continents, this book explores the lives of eight remarkable people who introduced...  Read More >>

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The Coterel Gang, who flourished in the Midlands of England during the late 1320s and early 1330s, was led by James...  Read More >>

Follow Julian Lisiecki’s early 20th century life as he struggles for an education in Russian-controlled Poland....  Read More >>

From the beginning, America was a land of pioneers and outlaws, and lawlessness has always been a distinctively...  Read More >>

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Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and...  Read More >>

The so-called Golden Age of Athens, during and after the primacy of Pericles, was in fact a time of ruinous culture...  Read More >>

From the New York Times bestselling author of Provence, 1970, a lively and riveting account of the revolutionary...  Read More >>

England’s best-loved landscape painter John Constable’s letters, sharing his ideas and practices – selected, arranged...  Read More >>

A lavishly illustrated guide to the lives and achievements of some of the most influential fashion designers of...  Read More >>

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A young machine gunner's war with the Big Red One;from D-Day through the Hurtgen Forest;the Battle of the Bulge;Remagen...  Read More >>

The page-turning story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism.  Read More >>

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Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978) was known as a renowned ballerina, writer, and intellectual. Drawing from Karsavina's...  Read More >>