Biography & Memoir
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Lives That Changed the Conversation
Stories in focus, from artists and musicians to revolutionaries and truth-tellers.
“Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.” ― Kim Gordon, Girl in a BandExplore the collection
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Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print -
Bad Indians (Expanded Edition): A Tribal Memoir -
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan -
Travels with Charley: In Search of America -
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum -
Race to the South Pole: A Two--Sided Story -
Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre -
Horror Stories: A Memoir by Liz Phair -
Flush by Virginia Woolf -
Confessions by Saint Augustine -
Bread of Angels: A Memoir by Patti Smith -
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls -
Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth -
Selected Letters of John Updike -
Seabiscuit: An American Legend -
Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez -
Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback -
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby -
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey -
Children Like Us by Brittany Penner -
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn -
Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band -
Philosophy of Andy Warhol [50th Anniversary Edition] -
Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Revised)