Biography Books

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time

Helen Campbell

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time is a biographical work by Helen Campbell, an American author, editor, social and industrial reformer, as well as a pioneer in the field of home economics. Her Househo..

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

John Muir

The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- scant space for three or four small sticks, around which in hard ze..

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll

S. D. Collingwood

Author's preface from the book.To write the life of Lewis Carroll as it should be written would tax the powers of a man of far greater experience and insight than I have any pretension to possess, and..

The Life of Kit Carson

Edward S. Ellis

Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was associated or who closely studied his character. He was more th..

Blood Brothers - A Medic's Sketch Book

Eugene C. Jacobs

The purpose of Blood Brothers is to acquaint the reader with a series of harrowing incidents experienced by the isolated U.S. Armed Forces in the Far East during World War II. We might well be voicing..

Some Reminiscences

Joseph Conrad

As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with..

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters - A Family Record

Richard Arthur

Since 1870-1, when J. E. Austen Leigh published his Memoir of Jane Austen, considerable additions have been made to the stock of information available for her biographers. Of these fresh sources of kn..

Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda

Autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (January 5, 1893–March 7, 1952) first published in 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into..