Biography & Autobiography

It is the genius of actor Carroll O'Connor that millions of fans will forever confuse him...

He's wrestled under many names, "Stunning" Steve Austin, The Ringmaster, he even wrestled...

From Chelsea House's Galaxy of Superstars series comes the story of Britney Spears, who b...

When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that...

The 38 letters written by Rockefeller to his son imparting his perspectives, ideology, an...

In the summer of 2013 David Suchet will film his final scenes as Hercule Poirot. After 2...

In The Feeling of Greatness, second edition, golf coach Tim O'Connor updates his previous...

Scientists often challenge conventional wisdom and spark debates that last for generation...

In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Nor...

Actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., eloquently writes his memories of family, his student days at...

Kirk Douglas is a born storyteller, and in this engrossing memoir, he offers wonderful ta...

Was he a spy, assassin, or just a gigolo? A man of international intrigue, Porfirio Rubir...

Pitching in a Pinch, originally published in 1912, is an insiders account of the world of...

One of the most enthralling true adventure stories ever written, We Die Alone, set in Naz...

Helga Schneider was four when her mother suddenly abandoned her family in Berlin in 1941....

In the manner of Rilkes Letters to a Young Poet, Anna Deavere Smith advises her young art...

At the height of the Battle of Iwo Jima, during a U.S. assault on a vital airfield on the...

In January 1906, a sensitive woman naturalist, nature lover, and accomplished artist bega...

In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Kar...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry follows up Books and L...

A finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award, Sue Macy&rsquo...

Former U.S. President Richard Nixon candidly reflects on his career and discusses such to...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in 1809. It looked like he would be a si...

Award-winning author Laurence Pringle gives an accurate account of York's life - before, ...

Words of Wisdom from America's shrewdest observer of mankind and its ways. Includes: Choi...

Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination, courage and determination ...

Before he won stunning acclaim as one of today's most gifted southern writers, Larry Brow...

When Andrew Offutt died, his son, Chris, inherited a desk, a rifle, and eighteen hundred ...

Good. Evil. Dangerous. Glamorous. Will the real Cleopatra please stand up? Almost everyth...

Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to mul...

Patrick Henry Hughes was born with a rare genetic disorder that left him without eyes and...

Betty White was a widely recognized, hugely popular, American celebrity - best known as a...

My name is Hazel Lamb…Lindsey, but my momma called me Fireball. I am 84 years old....

Do you want to learn about Elon Musk?El?n Reeve Musk i? ?n American entrepreneur, inv?nt?...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humori...

How does one transcend mankind to a heavenly being, the known to the eternal mystery? One...

In Weathering the Storms, Jon Sadler provides the perspective of the child, student,...

Author Matthew Fox has stated, "If Hildegard had been a man, she would be well known as o...

ELON MUSKVISIONARY BUSINESSMAN Learn his thoughts and insightsOn themes like: T...

"Dickens is the highest poetic expression of the English tradition between the heroic cen...

Thirty years after the Falklands War 'Secret Millionaire' Tony Banks is still haunted by...

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enem...

Studio recordings of the best monologues from Richard Henzel’s one man play Mark Tw...

Posing as a jewel thief Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone worked undercover for ...

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Si...

Comedienne Mo'Nique, the bold, classy, sitcom star, Queen of Comedy, and two-time NAACP I...

At twenty-eight, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young ma...

Do you want to listen to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave? ...

In Churchill, critically acclaimed historian Paul Johnson explores the complex and fascin...

At the age of seventeen in a last-minute twist of fate, Laura Bradbury is sent to Burgund...