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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Family of Spies
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
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
Don't Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History
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
The Architect of Espionage: The Man Who Built Israel’s Mossad Into the World’s Boldest Intelligence Force
Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen
Dick Schoof
Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror
Scipio Africanus: The First Imperator
Fanny's Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week Was Born
Galaxy Mapper: The Luminous Discoveries of Astrophysicist Hélène Courtois
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    Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

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  • I’m Glad My Mom Died
    A Promised Land
    From Here to the Great Unknown
    Finding Me
    Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum
    Counting the Cost
    This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir
    Family of Spies
    »Mama, bitte lern Deutsch«: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
    Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
    Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
    Last Rites
    The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
    When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between
    All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
    Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
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    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsNight by Elie WieselAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
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    Funny Women Memoirs
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    Steve Jobs
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    Becoming
    Educated
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    Einstein: His Life and Universe
    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
    John Adams
    Alexander Hamilton
    Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Leonardo da Vinci
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Into the Wild
    Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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