The Life of Erasmus Darwin is the 1879 biography of Erasmus Darwin by his grandson Charles Darwin. Before publication however 16% of the work was cut out by Charles' daughter Etty Darwin...
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography, written by Humphrey Carpenter, was first published in 1977. It is called the "authorized biography" of J. R. R. Tolkien, creator of The Lord of the Rings and...
Mandela: The Authorised Biography is a biography of former South African President Nelson Mandela, by the late British journalist and writer Anthony Sampson. Mandela's autobiography,...
This is a biography on Jerome Howard written by his niece, Joan Howard Maurer, the daughter of his brother, Moe Howard. It recounts her own memories of her uncle, along with interviews with...
This book is a biography of Muhammad by author Karen Armstrong. The book gives a comparison between the three major monotheistic religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. It also derives...
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo is a book by Hayden Herrera about the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, her art, and her relationship with muralist Diego...
Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence is a book by Jeremy Wilson about the noted historic figure T. E. Lawrence , who helped lead the Arab Revolt against...
The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard is a 1975 biography of the writer Robert E. Howard by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published by Gerry de la...
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann was published in 1959. It is widely accepted as a masterpiece of literary biography. Anthony Burgess was so impressed with the biographer's work that he...
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a memoir by 2008 United States Presidential candidate Barack Obama of Illinois. It was first published in 1995 after Obama was...
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, Mark Twain’s Autobiography is a two-volume set published over ten years after Twain's death in order to protect the "guilty". It was well received...
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is is the title of the last original book written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche before his final years of insanity that...
The Conqueror is a novel written by Georgette Heyer. It chronicles the life of William of Normandy from his birth in 1028 to his conquest of England in 1066. Born the illegitimate son...
Camera Workers by David Mattison is a biographical directory of British Columbia photographers of the 19th and 20th century up to 1950. The first edition of the work, which comprised volume...
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a bestselling non-fiction book about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. It is an expansion of Krakauer's 9,000-word article, "Death of an Innocent...
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood is the autobiography of Mary McCarthy that was published in 1957. The book chronicles McCarthy's childhood including her being orphaned, having an abusive...
Biography of composer Edgard Varese.
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People is an autobiography by Lenny Bruce, the scathing social satirist and comedian, who died in 1966 at age 40 of a drug overdose. In it, he discusses the...
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. The book, released in 1985, details such material as...
H. P. Lovecraft: A Life is a biography of H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi, first published by Necronomicon Press in 1996. It was reissued in 2004, with a new afterword by Joshi. H. P....
The Big Fellow is a 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader, Michael Collins, by Frank O'Connor. The Big Fellow covers the period of Collins's life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his...
The Road to Wigan Pier was written by George Orwell and published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial...
Somebody Somewhere is a book written by the autistic author, songwriter, screenwriter and artist Donna Williams. It is the 1994 sequel to the bestseller Nobody Nowhere which spent 15 weeks...
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a partial autobiography published by C. S. Lewis in 1955. Specifically the book describes the author's conversion to Christianity. The book...