Biography & Autobiography
Bad Blood
Blood trickles down through every generation, steeps into every marriage. Lorna Sage's autobiography is a searing and funny anatomy of three marriages.
Thirteen Senses
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Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley had talent, position, and friends, but the contradictions between his ideals and his life landed him in one escapade after another; dodging creditors, eloping twice (the second time while already married), and ultimately losing much by refusing to back down f
Benjamin Franklin - His Autobiography
"If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Darwin's Autobiography gives us an explanation of what led him to his greatest achievement: the theory of evolution; It describes the obsession that drove him to great heights as a scientist, illustrates the convergence of factors that allowed him to see what others overlooked, a
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellii wrote, that the world might know after he was dead, what a fellow he had been; what great things he had attempted, and against what odds he had carried them through.
It's Been a Quiet Life
Born in Purau Bay in New Zealand in 1931, Peter Gardiner's earliest memories are of living in a village inhabited by folk who just couldn't get on. Forty-two of them however, shared the same surname.
Ed Wood: The Early Years
The truth about this eccentric Hollywood genius at last - Ed Wood as the Tim Burton movie didn't show him - and as he didn't want you to know him.
The Last Lone Inventor
In a story that is both of its time and timeless, Evan I. Schwartz tells a tale of genius and greed, innocence and deceit, and corporate arrogance versus independent brilliance. In other words, the very qualities that have made this country - for better or for worse - what it is.
A Life of Magic Chemistry
How did a young man who grew up in Hungary between the two World Wars go from cleaning rubble and moving pianos at the end of World War II in the Budapest Opera House to winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?