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.

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Autobiography
Memoir
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Between Two Trailers
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
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A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
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    A Promised Land
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    The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
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    My Name is Barbra
    Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
    Here After
    Becoming Madam Secretary
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