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"

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union

The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn

Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World

Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story

The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy

Macho Man: The Untamed, Unbelievable Life of Randy Savage

Pedro's Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys

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

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

How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

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

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

Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions

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

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

The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman "Not Apt to be Intimidated"

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

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Memoir
Autobiography
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Quotes Tagged “Biography”

“ Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior. ...more ”
― John Newton, Amazing Grace

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“ The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. ”
― Rachel Carson

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