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May 7, 2024 · 50 best autobiographies & biographies of all time. Enlightening and inspiring: these are the best autobiographies and biographies of 2024, and all time. Reading an autobiography can offer a unique insight into a world and experience very different from your own – and these real-life stories are even more entertaining, and stranger, than fiction.
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Sep 8, 2022 · New autobiographies from Jemele Hill, Matthew Perry and Hua Hsu are in the mix, along with books about Martha Graham, Agatha Christie and more.
- The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou (2004) Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is one of the most acclaimed and recommended memoirs and one of the best books for women.
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1909) Written by Franklin between 1771 to 1790 and published in the early 1900s, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin details the Founding Father‘s early life and unique adulthood.
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845) This historic work of nonfiction is widely considered to be one of the best autobiographies ever written.
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947) This autobiography, one of the most famous books about the Holocaust, takes the form of a collection of writings from the diary Anne Frank kept for the two years she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
- Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude (2020) In these tumultuous times, average citizens and leaders alike have been turning to the words of James Baldwin, one of the greatest writers on race in America.
- The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts (1982) You may have seen the 2008 film Milk starring Sean Penn, but this biography goes deeper into Harvey Milk’s personal life and career, and wider in applying Milk’s story as a parallel for so much of what was happening to the gay community across the United States at the time.
- The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel (2014) A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the California Book Award, this can easily be considered one of the best biographies of all time.
- Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White (2004) Alice Walker has given us some of the most celebrated and beloved books, including The Color Purple, which made her the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize.
- The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank.
- I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai.
- Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) Elie Wiesel.
- The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
Jun 22, 2018 · The best biographies and autobiographies ever written. Telegraph Reporters 22 June 2018 • 10:34am. 264. Culture hit lists banner. Our critics chose the greatest memoirs and biographies ever...
Paperback. $999 $18.00. 73,736. About 100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime. Honestly, it would take many lifetimes to read even a small fraction of the best biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs ever written. So when the Amazon Books editors set out to compile a list of the 100 Biographies and Memoirs to Read in a (Single ...
