Biography

A life reconstructed from the outside. Written from letters, archives and interviews by someone who was not there — a real person given the shape and attention of a novel.

On the Ideas & Lives shelf.

Books shelved as Biography

• El invencible verano de Liliana — Cristina Rivera Garza
• Monster, She Wrote — Lisa Kröger
• We Should Have Seen It Coming — Gerald F. Seib
• Angela's Ashes — Frank McCourt
• "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character — Richard P. Feynman
• My People the Sioux — Luther Standing Bear
• Agatha Christie: An Autobiography — Agatha Christie
• Things in Nature Merely Grow — Yiyun Li
• The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life — Alex Trebek
• Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare
• The Woman on the Mountain — Sharyn Munro
• Mémoire de fille — Annie Ernaux
• Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner
• El nudo materno — Jane Lazarre
• Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir — Rachel Louise Snyder
• Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
• The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor: My Years at the CDC — William H. Foege
• Dream Big, Little One — Vashti Harrison
• The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom — Shari Franke
• Half His Age — Jennette McCurdy
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• El Nervio Optico — María Gainza
• Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
• Iron Gold — Pierce Brown

Related genres

• Non-Fiction
• Literary Criticism
• Medical Narrative
• Philosophy
• Grief Memoir
• Memoir
• Theology
• Cultural Studies
• Political Theory
• Inspirational
• Feminist Theory
• Art History
• Anthropology
• Leadership
• Business

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