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Autobiography of a Face

by Lucy Grealy

Published: 2003-03-18

Paperback: 236 pages

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"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that ...

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Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

by Laurie Notaro

Published: 2003-07-08

Paperback: 272 pages

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The author of the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life.In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and bar-stool regular to mortgagee with plu...

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Autobiography of a Geisha

by Sayo Masuda

Published: 2005-05-11

Paperback: 216 pages

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Modern Library)

by Gertrude Stein

Published: 1993-09-07

Hardcover: 342 pages

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Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

by James Weldon Johnson

Published: 2008-07-04

Paperback: 124 pages

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This narrative of a mulatto man who is able to pass as while is an illuminating look into his journey across color lines. Johnson believed that the status of the American Negro would be improved by making their literature known to the general public. His journey takes him from a Negro college to a...

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The Autobiography of an Execution

by David R. Dow

Published: 2011-02-16

Paperback: 271 pages

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Near the beginning of The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow lays his cards on the table. "People think that because I am against the death penalty and don't think people should be executed, that I forgive those people for what they did. Well, it isn't my place to forgive people, and...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

Published: 2013-09-30

Paperback: 152 pages

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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882

by Charles Darwin

Published: 1993-09-17

Paperback: 224 pages

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The only complete edition. Charles Darwin's Autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. It was a bowdlerized edition: Darwin's family, attempting to protect his posthumous reputation, had deleted all the passages they considered too personal or controversial. Th...

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The Autobiography Of Eleanor Roosevelt (Quality Paperbacks Series)

by Eleanor Roosevelt

Published: 2000-02

Paperback: 504 pages

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To tie in with the paperback publication of volume II of Blanche Wiesen Cook's acclaimed biography of Eleanor Roosevelt "Mrs. Roosevelt's autobiography is above all the portrait of a person. The history it gives is history as she has seen it-not in the round but directly, with her clear a...

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The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers

by Margaret George

Published: 1998-09-15

Paperback: 960 pages

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Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas More; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and ...