Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
Arms Wide Open
A Midwife's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A midwife’s memoir of living free and naturally against all odds
In her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the stories patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife in medical practice with her husband, an OB/GYN,...
Maria Montessori
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
"Highly recommended for educators, parents, and moderate feminists who seek inspiration from one of the most accomplished women of this or any other age."—Publishers Weekly
The definitive biography of Maria Montessori—physician, feminist, social reformer, educator, and one of...
Capirotada
A Nogales Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Capirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon and cloves, Old World sugar--"all this," writes Alberto Rios, "and things people will not tell you."Like its Mexican namesake, this memoir is a rich...
Sex vs. Survival
The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
“An impressively researched, documented, and readable biography” of a woman who played a key role in the history of psychology (Library Journal, starred review).
Who was Sabina Spielrein? She is probably best known for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, which was dramatized in the film A...
by eBios
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2014
Sir Patrick Stewart is an English film, television and stage actor, who has had a distinguished career on stage and screen. He is most widely known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its successor films, as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film...
3,000 Pulses Later
A Memoir of Surviving Depression Without Medications
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
3,000 Pulses Later: A Memoir of Surviving Depression Without Medication describes how, as a successful advertising executive, wife, and mother with a seemingly ideal life, Martha Rhodes succumbed to depression and overdosed on Xanax and alcohol in an unsuccessful suicide attempt. The memoir describes...
by Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice. As a lawyer, he won the Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that integrated all public schools in the United States. But Marshall's contributions extend far beyond significantly advancing the civil rights...
Ink in Water
An Illustrated Memoir (Or, How I Kicked Anorexia's Ass and Embraced Body Positivity)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
“An incredibly important, extremely relatable memoir about learning to love the hardest person of all: yourself.”
—Liz Prince, author of Tomboy
"Compelling, funny, occasionally heartbreaking, and full of genuine hope in ways that most graphic memoirs never achieve artistically. ... Don’t...
by eBios
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Zac Efron is an American actor and singer. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s, and became known as a teen idol after his lead roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, the WB series Summerland, and the 2007 film version of the Broadway musical Hairspray....
Outside the Asylum
A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
'A profound memoir' Daily Telegraph
'As revealing as the writing of Oliver Sacks' Mark Cousins
Outside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal and highly acclaimed exploration of humanitarian psychiatry and the changing world of international relief. Her memoir graphically describes her experiences...
by eBios
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Al Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is well known for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, and often appeared on the other side of the law—as a police officer, a detective and lawyer.
Pacino won the...
Einstein's Greatest Mistake
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
“What Bodanis does brilliantly is to give us a feel for Einstein as a person. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that does this as well” (Popular Science).
In this “fascinating” biography, the acclaimed author of E=mc2 reveals that in spite of his indisputable brilliance, Albert...
by Vincent Sheean
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Marie Curie is a women who changed the face of science for all time, not just because of her discovery of the radioactive element Radium and her work with it, but because of her incredible strides forward in a such a male dominated world as laboratory science at the turn of the 19th century. This...
My Name Is Bill
Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking biography of Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, acclaimed author Susan Cheever creates a remarkably human portrait of a man whose life and work both influenced and saved the lives of millions of people. Drawn from personal letters and diaries,...