Biography New Releases

A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is a non-fictional account of a person's life. Biographies are written by an author who is not the subject/focus of the book.

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Autobiography
Memoir ...more

New Releases Tagged "Biography"

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up

Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life

Wat Kept Playing: The Inspiring Story of Wataru Misaka and His Rise to the NBA

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs

Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir

Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew

An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country

A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a group of women set out to change the world

Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown

Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller

Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough

Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA

Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan's Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants

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Quotes Tagged “Biography”

“ What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written. ...more ”
― Mark Twain

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“ Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts. ”
― Virginia Woolf , A Room of One’s Own

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