Biography & Autobiography Books

#1 New Release in Art of Comics and Manga, Essays, and Women in Art ─ Cartoons About Feminism, Relationships, Self-Love and Adulthood by Planet Pr...

Follow the history of Air Force Missileers and missile programs. Including Snark, Bomarc, Matador, Mace, Thor, Jupiter, Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, Pe...

#1 New Release in Reference & Collections ─ Last Words of Famous and Infamous PeopleAn Insightful and humorous look into the stories behind the...

Sometimes we must look into the past in order to face the future. After growing up as a fully assimilated Jew, Paul Cowan embarked in his mid-thi...

The Making of a Female Serial Killer "In America's First Female Serial Killer, McBrayer offers us a complex―and terrifying―portrait of a killer wh...

Celebrating 25 years with a comprehensive history from World War II through the 21st Century. Biographical profiles of the members as well as a ros...

By the early nineties, singer-songwriter and former Blake Babies member Juliana Hatfield’s solo career was taking off: She was on the cover of Spin...

The life and film genius of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream director Wes Craven Wes Craven is one of the most successful and iconic horror mo...

"Fascinating and well researched.... Dr. Swift is the first to concentrate on this unusual subject with such a wealth of sympathetic detail."-Sarah...

Based on new sources—the definitive biography of Rasputin, with revelations about his life, death, and involvement with the Romanovs A century aft...

In the first major biography of Noah Webster in over sixty years, author Harlow Unger creates an intriguing portrait of the United States as an ene...

"Thomas Fleming gives us an unforgettable story about an immigrant family--his family--as it struggles to find a place in the American century. He ...

From the glittering social life of Virginia's wealthiest plantations to the rigors of winter camps during the American Revolution, Martha Washingto...

"Alan Weisman has come as close as anyone to unraveling one of the big mysteries of the television age: who is the real Dan Rather? Weisman has dev...

The Lincolns spent the summer of 1862 north of the White House at the Soldiers’ Home. The lush, cool hill overlooking the squalid capital promised ...

He was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood, a hard-charging actor whose intensity on the screen was mirrored in his personal life. As Kirk Doug...

Global climate change? We can stop it.Addiction to oil? We can replace it.Technological innovation? We can create it.But we can't wait twenty, thir...

Few have achieved more for the American worker than Lane Kirkland: fewer still have received less credit than Lane for their pivotal roles. In Lane...

Inside one of the world's most dangerous jobs with the star of History's top-rated reality show, Ice Road TruckersThe highest-rated reality show e...

Praise for Harlow Giles Unger's Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot"Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man; shrewd, passionate...

Critical Acclaim for Jacqueline Bouvier  "Readers longing for a dignified and elegant approach to Jackie's early years will enjoy this biographica...

"A compelling account of Jackson's Indian-fighting days . . . as well a grand sweep of the conquest of the trans-Appalachian West, a more complex, ...

This book traces the extraordinary life and career of Mel Brooks, who has ridden a wave of show business success perhaps unsurpassed by anyone of h...

NOW AN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY, Winter Journey Set amid the growing tyranny of Germany's Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of Gü...