Biography Books

Biography books describe the life of notable people: risk takers, scholars, entrepreneurs or adventurers.

'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794
Michael J. Franklin
Amazon
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life
Sarah Kaminsky
Amazon
Agricola
Tacitus
Amazon
Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Paula Findlen
Amazon
Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian
David Alan Parnell
Amazon
Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns
Owen Connelly
Amazon
Bonaparte: 1769–1802
Patrice Gueniffey
Amazon
Carl Friedrich Gauss: A Biography
Tord Hall
Amazon
Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell
Georgina Howell
Amazon
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon
Amazon
Jonas Salk: A Life
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
Amazon
Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Leonard Warren
Amazon
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
Peter Sarris
Amazon
Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
Greg Grandin
Amazon
Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult
Siren Celik
Amazon
Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life
Bruce T. Moran
Amazon
Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius: The Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Russia's Unknown da Vinci
Avril Pyman
Amazon
Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier
Raleigh Trevelyan
Amazon
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
Amazon
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
Maya Jasanoff
Amazon
The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union
Loren Graham
Amazon
The Lives of the Artists
Giorgo Vasari
Amazon
The Meaning of Hitler
Sebastian Haffner
Amazon
The Pillow Book
Sei Shonagon
Amazon
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert Caro
Amazon
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
Alan Brinkley
Amazon
The Seventh Letter: A Philosophical Mystery at Plato's Academy
Mihai Iuliu Spariosu
Amazon
The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God
Massimo Mazzotti
Amazon
Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
Hans-Ulrich Wiemer
Amazon
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
Natalie Zemon Davis
Amazon
Wallenstein, His Life Narrated
Golo Mann
Amazon

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Biography Books

'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794

Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life

Agricola

Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian

Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns

Bonaparte: 1769–1802

Carl Friedrich Gauss: A Biography

Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics

Jonas Salk: A Life

Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman

Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult

Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life

Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius: The Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Russia's Unknown da Vinci

Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union

The Lives of the Artists

The Meaning of Hitler

The Pillow Book

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

The Seventh Letter: A Philosophical Mystery at Plato's Academy

The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God

Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans

Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

Wallenstein, His Life Narrated

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