Biography & autobiography

Best Selling / Page 342

icon Subscribe to feed

Browse

Best Selling

New Releases

 

Category

Delete Biography & autobiography

 

In category

Personal Memoirs (2589)

Entertainment & Performing Arts (783)

Women (728)

Historical (663)

Literary (634)

Sports (633)

Political (424)

Composers & Musicians (406)

Religious (391)

Military (312)

Presidents & Heads of State (234)

Rich & Famous (211)

Adventurers & Explorers (137)

Royalty (135)

 

Origin

English (15)

Asian (1)

Hispanophone (1)

 

Price

All (9822)

Free (0)

Below $5 (598)

Below $10 (3376)

Below $15 (8150)

Delete Price range

From :
To :
OK

 

Protection

All (9822)

DRM Free (168)

DRM (9653)

 

Language

English (9822)

French (906)

German (553)

Spanish (74)

Italian (974)

More options

Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick

by Peter Collier

This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration, outside of the President...


The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love

by James L.W. Iii West

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a handsome, ambitious sophomore at Princeton when he fell in love for the first time. Ginevra King, though only sixteen, was beautiful, socially poised, and blessed with the confidence...


Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist

by Helene Aylon

Up from orthodoxy into the art world’s creative chaos—a feminist artist’s whimsical memoir of heady times.


The Japan Journals: 1947-2004

by Donald Richie & Leza Lowitz

"Wonderfully evocative and full of humor, but also honest, introspective, and often poignant."--The New York Times


Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist - One Woman's Spiritual Journey

by Jan Willis

Jan Willis is not Baptist or Buddhist. She is simply both. Dreaming Me is the story of her life, from growing up a Baptist in the segregated South, dealing with racism in an Ivy League college, and becoming...


The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin

by Margaret Rhodes

This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy,...


Poe: A Life Cut Short

by Peter Ackroyd

Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s greatest and most versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe wrote lyrical poetry...


The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen

by Peter J. Bailey

For three decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific -- or as paradoxical -- as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) through Celebrity (1998) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Allen has produced...


Lincoln on Lincoln

by Paul M. Zall

" Though Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of numerous biographies, his personality remains an enigma. During his lifetime, Lincoln prepared two sketches of his life for the 1860 presidential race. These...


Short of the Glory

by Tracy Campbell

" Arthur Schlesinger Jr. thought that he might one day become president. He was a protege of Felix Frankfurter and Fred Vinson--a political prodigy who held a series of important posts in the Roosevelt and Truman...


The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

by Frederica Sagor Maas

" Freddie Maas's revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio system....


Creeker

by Linda Scott DeRosier

Linda Sue Preston was born on a feather bed in the upper room of her Grandma Emmy's log house in the hills of eastern Kentucky. More than fifty years later, Linda Scott DeRosier has come to believe that you...


A Rose for Mrs. Miniver

by Michael Troyan

" In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her career struggles...


My Life in Prison: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident

by Jiang Qisheng

In 1999, the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, leading dissident Jiang Qisheng was given a four-year sentence for inviting the Chinese people to light candles to honor the victims. Drawn with...


Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy

by Ann Blackman

For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or South rivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spy for the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendary beauty and lover,...


Stroheim

by Arthur Lennig

Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957) was one of the giants in American film history. Stubborn, arrogant, and colorful, he saw himself as a cinema artist, which led to conflicts with producers and studio executives...


The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West

by Joyce Litz

Taken from the journals of a Victorian-era woman who followed her husband from New York to a small town in Montana, these reflections include birth control and child rearing, gambling and prostitution, education...


Another Day of Life

by Ryszard Kapuscinski

In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging...


Ayn Rand Cult

by Jeff Walker

Despised by the intellectual establishment, Ayn Rand continues to attract many thousands of devoted followers. Her "Objectivist" movement preaches an uncompromising hard line on politics, art, sex, and psychological...


Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake

by Cori Crooks

In Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake Cori Crooks records her search for identity among the things left behind by her delinquent family, her deceased, drug-addicted con-artist mother, and her missing biological...