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.

See also:
Autobiography
Memoir

Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation
The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch: How the Canceled Sitcom Became the Beloved Pop Culture Icon We Are Still Talking About Today
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Major Impossible
Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother
Once More To The Rodeo: A Memoir
One Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe
Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World
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Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life
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    Frances Mayes
    “ Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you do, where you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking. What is said, what is left to the imagination, what is denied, withheld, exaggerated-all these secretive, inverted things informed my childhood. Writing the stories that I found in the box, I remember being particularly fascinated by secrets kept in order ...more ”
    ― Frances Mayes, Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

    George Beahm
    “ Broad-Based Education: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.… I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.… It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. —Commencement address, Stanford ...more ”
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