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.

Educated: A Memoir
Heart Berries: A Memoir
The Line Becomes A River
Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust
The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card
Eat the Apple
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement
Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of a Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters
Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli
The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall: A Fairytale of Grimm Art

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    Paul Auster
    “ Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much. ”
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