Biography Books

Fanny Hill

John Cleland

Often with banned books the publication story is as interesting as the book itself, and Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill as it became known, is no exception. It was penned by John Cleland..

Ulysses

James Joyce

James Joyce's Ulysses is a conundrum of a book: some say it's unreadable stream-of-conscious gobbledegook, while others claim it to be the best book ever written. The 900 page work details a single da..

Up From Slavery - An Autobiography

Booker T. Washington

Mr. Washington's message of self reliance and the true dignity of labor is not only true but needs much reinforcement today. We, as African-Americans, are our own solution to most of our difficulties ..

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

It sounds like a joke, but if you look up Autobiography in Wikipedia you get the front cover of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography-that's how famous it is. Considered one of the first real autobiograph..

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau's book Walden would become particularly popular during the forced austerity of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and then again during the 1960s when conservationism, transcendent..

Mark Twain, A Biography

Albert Bigelow Paine

Mark Twain certainly lived by the dictum that one should never let the truth get in the way of a good story, and his life, whatever truth can be told of it, is a great tale in itself. Born by the name..

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

Black beauty is an awesome book I can't put it down and it is sad but that doesn't make it a bad book I am half way into the book now and if you are maybe just starting this book well hen you get to t..

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

Mark Twain's 1869 book The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrims' Progress is a humorous travelogue of a voyage Twain undertook two years earlier. He'd sent letters to the newspapers about his steams..