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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A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist's Guide to a Happy Life
The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
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Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress
The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945
Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews During World War II
Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen
The Architect of Espionage: The Man Who Built Israel’s Mossad Into the World’s Boldest Intelligence Force
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    Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

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    From Here to the Great Unknown
    Counting the Cost
    Finding Me
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    Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum
    When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between
    This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir
    The Look
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    All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
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