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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I’m Glad My Mom Died
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
»Mama, bitte lern Deutsch«: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
Family of Spies
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
The Look
When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Bad Mormon: A Memoir
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    The Diary of a Young Girl
    Becoming
    Educated
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    Einstein: His Life and Universe
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    John Adams
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    Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Leonardo da Vinci
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