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 River's Daughter
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
A Different Kind of Power
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir
The Möbius Book
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA
Every Weapon I Had: A Vietnam Vet's Long Road to the Medal of Honor
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp
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    A Promised Land
    Counting the Cost
    The Happiest Man on Earth
    Finding Me
    Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
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    Code Name: Pale Horse—How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis
    All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
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