Biography and Memoir

Discover the stories of their lives, in recent biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs.
Updated November 15, 2024
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie
Paper Book
**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the...
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
Tia Levings
Audiobook
Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne
Paper Book
'A surprising, thoughtful and deeply personal exploration of what it means to be a sociopath.' - Pandora Sykes 'Addictively page-turning' - The Telegraph Sociopath: A Memoir is a true story of a life lived on the edge of the law and an account of one woman's battle to...
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Paper Book
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and...
Sonny Boy: A Memoir
Al Pacino
Paper Book
The Instant New York Times Bestseller "The book is a beautiful trip." (New York Times Magazine) * "Soulful . . .  Feels like hanging out within a history of American movies over the last 50 years." (Los Angeles Times) * "Startlingly...
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory. 'A fresh and feminist study of the pioneering Nobel laureate reveals her...
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
Orlando Whitfield
Paper Book
Waterstones and Independent Book of the Year picks for 2024A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe'A brilliant, devastating exposé' William Boyd'Explosive ......
My Name is Barbra
Barbra Streisand
Paper Book
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and THE TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023. The exhilarating and startlingly honest autobiography of the living legend. ''Over almost a thousand pages, the diva to end them all documents her rise to the top and the tears and joys that...
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell
Paper Book
"A thorough account of Harriman's rise which also manages to be a brisk, twisty read ... riveting and revelatory." --The New Yorker "a must-read book of Fall 2024" --People Magazine "Rigorous but rollicking." --The New York Times<...
Tiger, Tiger: The Untold Story of the G.O.A.T.
James Patterson
Paper Book
How did Tiger Woods become the greatest of all time? And how did he fall so spectacularly? Before the age of twenty-five, Tiger Woods had risen to phenomenon status: twice named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated, champion of more than...
Consent: A Memoir
Jill Ciment
Paper Book
A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR * From the acclaimed novelist ("A virtuoso"--Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today's moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man...
Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life
Nicholas D. Kristof
Paper Book
From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism Since 1984, Nicholas Kristof has worked almost continuously for The New York Times as a reporter, foreign...

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.