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Biographies

Accounts of notable people from writers passionate about their subjects. Selected by Ben W.

Hennepin County Library

25 items

  • Shine Bright

    a Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

    Smith, Danyel
    BookNew York : Roc Lit 101, One World, [2022] — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Triumph

    the Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

    Schaap, Jeremy
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007. — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • BookNew York : Abrams Press, 2022. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • His Name Is George Floyd

    One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    Samuels, Robert, 1984-
    Book[New York] : Viking, [2022] — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • The Facemaker

    a Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

    Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982-
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Disability Visibility

    First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century

    Also available as an eBook.
    BookNew York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020. — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • The Escape Artist

    the Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

    Freedland, Jonathan, 1967-
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Susan, Linda, Nina, & Cokie

    the Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

    Napoli, Lisa, 1963-
    Also available as an eBook and on eAudio.
    BookNew York : Abrams Press, 2021. — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Radioactive

    Marie & Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love & Fallout

    Redniss, Lauren
    Also available on eAudio.
    BookNew York : !t Books, c2010. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Also available as an eBook.
    BookNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Also available as an eBook and on eAudio.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Co., c2010. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Imperfect Union

    How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War

    Inskeep, Steve
    Also available as an eBook and on eAudio.
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2020. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Also available as an eBook.
    BookNew York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014. — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Invisible

    the Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

    Carter, Stephen L., 1954-
    Also available on eAudio.
    BookNew York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Also available as an eBook.
    BookNew York : Random House, [2016] — Adult Nonfiction Book
  • Pipestone

    My Life in An Indian Boarding School

    Fortunate Eagle, Adam, 1929-
    BookNorman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2010. — Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
  • Why Fish Don't Exist

    a Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

    Miller, Lulu, 1983-
    Also available as an eBook and on eAudio.
    BookNew York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2020. — Adult Nonfiction Book