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
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 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
Vagabond: A Memoir
Joyride: A Memoir
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    A Promised Land
    From Here to the Great Unknown
    Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum
    Finding Me
    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
    Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
    The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
    The Look
    Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
    Last Rites
    When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between
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