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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The Land and Its People
The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness
This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life
Mother Tongue
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln
Marilyn and Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe
American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington
Nolan: The Singular Life of an American Original
A Perfect Coincidence: The Extraordinary Friendship and Astonishing Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
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