Biography

A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is an account of a person's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film.

All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
Abandon Me
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic

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