Biography

A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is an account of a person's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film.

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
A Manual for Heartache
The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece
Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
The Revolution of Robert Kennedy
Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
How to Be a Muslim: An American Story
Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

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    Into the Wild
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
    Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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    Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
    Yes Please
    Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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    Mother Teresa
    “ A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness. ”
    ― Mother Teresa

    Mark Twain
    “ What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written. ”
    ― Mark Twain

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