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By David Sedaris, 2001
ISBN 0316776963
A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant...
- Angela's Ashes
By Frank McCourt, 1999
ISBN 068484267X
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
- Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
By Steve Martin, 2008
ISBN 1416553657
In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away." Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the...
- Running with Scissors
By Augusten Burroughs, 2006
ISBN 0312938853
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the...
- Cash: The Autobiography
By Johnny Cash, 2003
ISBN 0060727535
He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the...
- Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
By Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi, 1993
ISBN 0807059099
Translated by Mahadev Desai and with a New PrefaceThe only authorized American editionMohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled...
- Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
By Michael J. Fox, 2009
ISBN 1401303382
There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities.
- Love, Lucy
By Lucille Ball, 1997
ISBN 0425177319
Although Lucille Ball died in 1989, this autobiography written prior to 1964 has only recently been discovered among her papers. She describes a childhood deeply affected by her father's death and her mother's withdrawal from her life. Raised by her grandparents, Ball craved attention and developed...
- The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
By Benjamin Franklin, 2009
ISBN 1595475729
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, but soon it was transformed into a work of history. This is a charming, self-portrait of one of America's greatest forefathers.
- The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
By Sidney Poitier, 2007
ISBN 0061357901
"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I’ve suddenly come up with the answers to all life’s questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and...
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
By Barack Obama, 2004
ISBN 1400082773
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a...
- Clapton: The Autobiography
By Eric Clapton, 2008
ISBN 076792536X
"I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way." With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and...
- Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith
By Aerosmith, 2003
ISBN 0060515805
Hang on, it's a hell of a ride! From the band that lived by the motto "Anything worth doing was worth overdoing" -- Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer -- comes a quarter century of rock godhood: the life, the music, the truth, the hell, the lost years, and the...
- Open: An Autobiography
By Andre Agassi, 2009
ISBN 0307268195
A stunning memoir by one of the world’s most beloved athletes—a nuanced self-portrait, an intensely candid account of a remarkable life, and a thrilling inside view of the pro tennis tour.
- Home
By Julie Andrews, 2008
ISBN 978-0786865659
Syphilis, alcoholism, infidelity, and indeterminate parentage may seem improbable touchstones in the back story of one who didn't so much portray as embody the blithe Maria in The Sound of Music. But as this memoir of her formative years makes clear, there is more gravitas to Andrews than meets the...
- True Compass
By Edward M. Kennedy, 2009
ISBN 0446539252
Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Kennedy speaks with unprecedented candor about his extraordinary life.
- Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
By Nelson Mandela, 1995
ISBN 0316548189
The best-selling memoirs, begun during the South African president's years in prison, traces the Nobel Prize-winner's historic life from his traditional tribal childhood to his triumphant rise to power. Reprint. NYT.
- Miles
By Miles Davis, 1990
ISBN 0330313827
For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life...
- The Heart of a Woman
By Maya Angelou, 1984
ISBN 9780553246896
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman , her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters...
- Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton
By Walter Payton, 2001
ISBN 0375758216
"Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best." His legacy is towering. Walter Payton—the man they called Sweetness, for the way he...
- Audition
By Barbara Walters, 2009
ISBN 0307279960
With a New Afterword by the AuthorIn her bestselling autobiography, Barbara Walters, arguably the most important woman in the history of television, describes her extraordinary public and private journey.Audition is the story of an amazingly full life, from her childhood, when Walters's glamorous...
- Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
By Quincy Jones, 2002
ISBN 0767905105
Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment -- including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith, and dozens of...
- Nobody Nowhere: The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl
By Donna Williams, 1998
ISBN 1853027189
This is the first of three volumes of autobiobraphy in which Donna Williams recounts her struggle with autism. She describes the desolation of the first 25 years of her life, before discovering the word "autism" - a label which brought withit some answers and the hope of a sense of belonging.
- Autobiography of a Face
By Lucy Grealy, 2003
ISBN 0060569662
"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life.
