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
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
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
Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen
Fanny's Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week Was Born
Vagabond: A Memoir
Joyride: A Memoir
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
Lincoln's Ghost: Houdini's War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency
We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir
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    Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum
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    The Happiest Man on Earth
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    Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
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