Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Biography"

Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton

Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation

Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much

Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum

This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir

I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight

Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between

The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp

The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had

We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America

The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary

Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty

Roma soy yo: La verdadera historia de Julio César (Julio César, #1)

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

Unseen: How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice

To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower

Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West

Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America

Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis

The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg―and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema

The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison

Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King

Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Disney Adults: Exploring (and Falling in Love with) a Magical Subculture

Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore

Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

Broken Strings: Fragments of a Stolen Youth

On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War

Maldita Roma: La conquista del poder de Julio César (Julio César, #2)

The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life

The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family

This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light

Queens at War (England's Medieval Queens, #4)

Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen

Hope in Action: A Memoir About the Courage to Lead

Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell

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UFO of God: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe

The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path

Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)

The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship

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Quotes Tagged “Biography”

“ If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it. ”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

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“ The Earl of Lancaster loudly spoke, “Piers Gaveston, this court finds you guilty of treason, of sodomy and sedition as well as many other crimes against God! You shall be taken to Blacklow Hill, which shall by your place of execution, and you shall be put to death by two of my Welsh soldiers! May God have mercy upon your soul! ”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

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