Biographies & Autobiographies books

This book makes available a rare eyewitness account of Florida's Spanish colonial period: the 1595 narrative of...  Read More >>

In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and...  Read More >>

Mountain Men were the principal figures of the fur trade era, one of the most interesting, dramatic, and truly significant...  Read More >>

This book explores Thomas Edison's activities and influence in Fort Myers, Florida, over 45 years, an important...  Read More >>

After George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1992, John Robert Greene’s verdict on the 41st...  Read More >>

Harwood's spirited biography of an audacious, persistent woman brings to the forefront the largely unheralded contributions...  Read More >>

In Karen Blixen's Search for Self, Patti M. Marxsen presents a twenty-first-century reconsideration of Blixen's...  Read More >>

Women have been shaping the conservation movement in Texas since the nineteenth century, though their stories are...  Read More >>

Kenneth W. Noe's Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend boldly questions the long-accepted notion that the sixteenth...  Read More >>

A biography of Renee-Pelagie de Montreuil, Marquise de Sade, revealing how for decades she endured not only the...  Read More >>

‘Fascinating… written with clarity and rooted in deep affection' Observer ‘A timely and balanced book that offers...  Read More >>

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story...  Read More >>

How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal,...  Read More >>

""Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James""--  Read More >>

An indispensable compendium of Hunter S Thompson's best of Gonzo.  Read More >>

The second volume of Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary 'Gonzo Papers'.  Read More >>

Chopsy is a memoir like no other - a gut-wrenchingly powerful, yet frequently funny account of a life spent defying...  Read More >>

Dans cet ouvrage poignant, l'auteur donne la parole à sa grand-mère, fidaïya engagée dans la lutte pour l'indépendance...  Read More >>

Loin des clichés d'une vie de privilèges et de confort, l'auteur expose sans fard les réalités souvent ignorées...  Read More >>

The full-career autobiography from one of Ireland's greatest ever jockeys  Read More >>

Based on the hit BBC 5Live podcast series, The Trillion Dollar Conman is an audacious tale of an international fraud...  Read More >>

A gripping, definitive account of one man's battle to reckon with the horror of the Holocaust, by Jack Fairweather,...  Read More >>

Offers a startling new vision of motherhood: wild, intimate, diverse; as contested and extraordinary as the world...  Read More >>

""Chuck Feeney is a remarkable role model, and the ultimate example of giving while living."" (Bill Gates)  Read More >>

Set in Paris, an audacious philosophical novel that brings Jean-Jacques Rousseau's investigations of human nature...  Read More >>