Biography Books

"As I adjusted my eyes going from absolute darkness to the bright lighted street corner, I could see the silhouettes of several soldiers around me. As I was being dragged backwards, I could hear the gravel grind together underneath me and feel the pain of my skin being ripped off as the soldier...

Download this FREE e-Book that focuses on the life of Tony Lima--and on making dreams come true! Success and money-- That is what Tony Lima was striving to achieve! Those were his only motives! Long ago, after witnessing his parents' struggle with money, he decided that he would achieve success...

First published in 1913, John Barleycorn is an intensely moving work by one of America's finest writers, and is considered to be the first intelligent literary treatise on alcohol in American literature.

Author Amy Steed man presents 18 autobiographies of the world's most famous painters, with focus on their stories, and how they learned to put new life into Art by creating the most beautiful paintings that the world has ever known.

The life of Buffalo Bill as told by his sister, Helen Cody Wet more. Generously illustrated with full-page drawings and illustrations that cover his birth in Iowa, the Civil War, the Westward Expansion, and his later years as an entertainer.

By C.M. Yonge. The Life of John Coleridge Patteson (1827-1871) details the life of the Anglican bishop and martyr.

A genuine classic, the biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson, as written by his disciple, James Boswell has long been considered to be the greatest biography ever written in the English language.

By Austin Craig. The biography of Philippine Patriot, Jose Rizal. Details how Philippine and world history contributed to the development of Rizal's character.

Chronicles the personal life of Abraham Lincoln, to cite the profound effects that the Civil War had on the 16th President of the United States.

By Sarah Knowles Bolton. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Louisa M. Alcott, to name a few. Features biographies of 18 girls whose fame grew along with them.