Biography

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
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One Way Back: A Memoir
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
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Thunder Song: Essays
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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
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
Waiting for the Monsoon
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
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