Biography Authors
There are many authors who have written their autobiography and others have written definitive biographies of notable individuals. Many comedians have written autobiographies and memoirs and those are listed separately in the Humor challenge. Below is a list of both autobiographies and biographies to help you complete this challenge. As always, your reading choices are not limited to just those on this page.
Biography Books to Explore
Check out these biography titles.
If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't) (Betty White)
Alexander Hamilton (Ron Chernow)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (Kate Clifford Larson)
Unbroken (Laura Hillenbrand)
Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
Becoming (MIchelle Obama)
John Adams (David McCollough)
The Wright Brothers (David McCollough)
Me (Katherine Hepburn)
Grant (Ron Chernow)
​Home (Julie Andrews)
Johnny Carson Biography: The Magnificent Life Of A Late-Night Legend (Emily Hager)
Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (Dick Cavett)
Diana: Her True Story (Andrew Morton)
Spare (Prince Harry)
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Matthew Perry)
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe)
Eleanor and Franklin (Joseph P. Lash)
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, Jim DeFelice)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Ernest J. Gaines)
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man (Paul Newman)
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)​​​​
Best Sellers in Biography Nonfiction
Have you read any of these best-sellers in the biography genre?
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