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Biography
A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is a non-fictional account of a person's life. Biographies are written by an author who is not the subject/focus of the book.
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Autobiography
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Autobiography
Memoir ...more
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Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult
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A landmark history of North Korea, told through the rise of the Kim Dynasty and its surprising ties to American Christianity—a spectacular, penetratin
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American Flygirl
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Hazel Ying Lee was the first Asian American woman to earn a pilot’s license, join the WASPs, and fly for the United States military.
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The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
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The first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, the Hungarian Jewish immigrant who became FDR’s closest advisor during World War II.
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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
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