Biography & Autobiography

The first work of its kind—Jaycee Dugard’s raw and powerful memoir, her own s...

Dave Pelzer's astonishing, disturbing account of his early years describes one of the mos...

Read the critically acclaimed New York Times best-seller with more than one million copie...

Actor Jimmy Hawkins, who played fouryearold Tommy Bailey, takes you behind the scenes of ...

Her life has seemed liek a fairy-tale come true. . .yet the shocking truth is that for Di...

Rush Limbaugh, America's #1 radio talk-show host, bounded to the top of the bestseller li...

Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write...

His books have sold millions and include classics like Mere Christianity, The Screwtape L...

The unforgettable life story of the fabulous drag queen from the bestselling Midnight in ...

What does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist and to coach a collegiate team to fiftee...

"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." —Helen Keller Before she was two...

Tesla's personal account is divided into six chapters covering different periods of his l...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A lively and spirited book' DOUGLAS MURRAY'A paean to the fr...

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and ...

Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his ...

Susan Richards went to rescue one horse and ended up bringing home an extraordinary repla...

At age thirtyfive, Cami Walker was burdened by a battle with multiple sclerosis, a chroni...

When World War II erupted, Philipp von Boeselager, son of an aristocratic Catholic family...

Ecce homo, behold the man, are the words Friedrich Nietzsche chose as the title for his l...

Nancy Cartwright is the ultimate Simpsons insider. Her raspy, childlike voice is immediat...

Pat Garrett was the sheriff of Lincoln County who killed Billy the Kid. When Garretts bo...

Get Rich or Die Tryin' That's what this book is about -- the good times and the bad time...

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept...

Even as a child, Davy Crockett "always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger." B...

Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup, an African Ameri...

He's been called the first modern general-the first military leader to understand that in...

Reigning CrossFit World Champion Rich Froning is "The Fittest Man on Earth." He's fast, h...

In Let's Take the Long Way Home, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Gail Caldwell offers...

Shakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That ...

Here is one of the most extraordinary and invaluable documents in the annals of Native Am...

When journalist Steve Lopez sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a twostring vio...

With color, irony, and sensitivity, Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard illuminates the d...

Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's jou...

Based on the results from Dave Barry's monumental reader survey, Dave Barry's Book of Bad...

The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, ...

Winner of the 2011 Audie Award for Best Audio DramaWinner of the AudioFile Earphones Awar...

Includes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of R...

Written just forty years after David Livingstones death, this admiring account of the fam...

On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 P.M., while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Ma...

Is Jesus relevant to us today? Few figures have had such an influence on history as Jesu...

In this collection of musical portraits, jazz pianist and radio host Marian McPartland pa...

From the New York Times bestselling and controversial author Shelby Steele comes an illum...

Letters of a Woman Homesteader presents an outstanding first-person account of life on th...

"We all need a hero or two to help us stand fast and think right," says William J. Bennet...

Lita™ -- see her just once in the ring and you can never forget it. The breathtaking...

In Character Building are 37 addresses that Booker T. Washington gave before students, fa...

Nat Turner was an enslaved African-American preacher who led a four-day rebellion of ensl...

The Rough Riders was a nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tried by War, James M. McPherson is acclaimed as the gre...

In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by f...