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Biography & Memoir

195 titles on the shelves at The Painted Porch.

84, Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff
At the Porch · $16.00Amazon
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)
Bill Bryson
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
A World Apart: Growing Up Stockdale During Vietnam
Stockdale, Sidney B (Author)
At the Porch · $34.95Amazon
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
At the Porch · $40.00Amazon
All the Colors Came Out: A Father, a Daughter, and a Lifetime of Lessons
Kate Fagan
At the Porch · $19.99Amazon
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964
William Manchester (Author)
At the Porch · $24.99Amazon
American Canto *Signed by Olivia Nuzzi*
Olivia Nuzzi
At the Porch · $35.00Amazon
American Canto *Unsigned
Olivia Nuzzi
At the Porch · $30.00Amazon
American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback
Seth Wickersham
At the Porch · $29.99Amazon
Anne Frank: The Biography (Updated, Expanded)
Melissa Muller
At the Porch · $21.99Amazon
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Frank, Anne
At the Porch · $8.99Amazon
Asylum
William Seabrook
At the Porch · $16.95Amazon
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
Taylor Branch
At the Porch · $24.00Amazon
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
Anthony Everitt
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X (Author), Alex Haley (Author), Ossie Davis (Afterword by)
At the Porch · $22.00Amazon
Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Barack Obama: A Little Golden Book Biography
Frank Berrios
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
William Finnegan
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff
At the Porch · $20.99Amazon
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
Jan Swafford
At the Porch · $45.00Amazon
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
At the Porch · $35.00Amazon
Beyonce: A Little Golden Book Biography
Lavaille Lavette
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
Tom Reiss
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Black Like Me (Anniversary)
John Howard Griffen
At the Porch · $17.47Amazon
Blue Nights
Joan Didion
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
At the Porch · $20.99Amazon
Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas
Alexi Pappas, Maya Rudolph
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas
Alexi Pappas, Maya Rudolph
At the Porch · $20.00Amazonout of stock
Bridge of Souls (City of Ghosts #3)
Victoria Schwab, V. E. Schwab
At the Porch · $8.99Amazon
Bruce Springsteen A Little Golden Book Biography
Laurel Snyder
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
Sam Tanenhaus
At the Porch · $40.00Amazon
Burning the Days: Recollection (Ambassador Book Awards)
James Salter
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
Caitlin Clark: A Little Golden Book Biography (Little Golden Book Biographies)
Marisa DiNovis
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Catching Fire (Hunger Games, Book Two), 2
Suzanne Collins
At the Porch · $14.99Amazon
Chappell Roan: A Little Golden Book Biography
Cat Reynolds, Maria Lia Malandrino
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Choice: Embrace the Possible
Edith Eva Eger
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
City of Ghosts, 1
Victoria Schwab
At the Porch · $8.99Amazon
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
Sonia Purnell
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Walter Isaacson
At the Porch · $14.69Amazon
Composed: A Memoir
Rosanne Cash
At the Porch · $17.00Amazon
Conundrum
Author: Jan Morris
At the Porch · $16.95Amazon
Death Be Not Proud
John J Gunther
At the Porch · $18.99Amazon
Desert Solitaire
Abbey, Edward (Author)
At the Porch · $22.00Amazon
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1)
Ross, Rebecca
At the Porch · $18.99Amazon
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Edison
Edmund Morris
At the Porch · $22.00Amazon
Education of a Wandering Man
Louis L'Amour
At the Porch · $8.99Amazon
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
At the Porch · $22.99Amazon
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
Sally Bedell Smith
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Elon Musk
Isaacson, Walter (Author)
At the Porch · $35.00Amazon
Elton John: A Little Golden Book Biography (Little Golden Book Biographies)
Jennifer Dussling, Irene Chan
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Emerson: The Mind on Fire
Richardson, Robert D (Author) , Moser, Barry (Contribution by)
At the Porch · $33.95Amazon
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Bill Dedman
At the Porch · $22.00Amazon
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Kate Bowler
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved* Signed By Author
Kate Bowler
At the Porch · $23.00Amazonout of stock
Feynman's Rainbow
Leonard Mlodinow
At the Porch · $17.00Amazon
Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Rich Cohen
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King*Signed
Rich Cohen
At the Porch · $24.00Amazon
Fishing for fun--and to wash your soul
Hoover Presidential Library Museum Store
At the Porch · $12.99Amazon
From Under the Truck: A Memoir
Josh Brolin
At the Porch · $30.00Amazon
Gandhi Before India
Ramachandra Guha
At the Porch · $24.00Amazon
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
Ramachandra Guha
At the Porch · $22.00Amazon
Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
Neil Peart
At the Porch · $19.95Amazon
Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley SIGNED
Underwood, Brent (Author)
At the Porch · $33.00Amazon
Gift from the Sea: 70th Anniversary Edition
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
Goodbye to a River: A Narrative
John Graves
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
Grant
Ron Chernow
At the Porch · $41.00Amazon
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey
At the Porch · $30.00Amazon
Happy People Are Annoying
Peck, Josh
At the Porch · $26.99Amazon
Harriet Tubman: A Little Golden Book Biography
JaNay Brown-Wood
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Hunter S. Thompson
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
Here, Right Matters: An American Story – A New York Times Bestselling Memoir of One Officer's Duty-Bound Stand Against Presidential Corruption
Alexander Vindman
At the Porch · $19.99Amazonout of stock
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Duncan, Mike (Author)
At the Porch · $19.99Amazon
High School
Quin, Sara (Author) , Quin, Tegan (Author)
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
Hollywood Park: A Memoir
At the Porch · $17.99Amazon
Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
Donald Barlett
At the Porch · $22.95Amazon
Humdrum Paper - Dandelion Die Cut Bookmark
Humdrum Paper
At the Porch · $6.00Amazonout of stock
Humdrum Paper - Sagittarius Zodiac Matchbox Bookmark (it’s die cut!)
Humdrum Paper
At the Porch · $6.00Amazon
I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
Maria Shriver
At the Porch · $30.00Amazon
I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir
Chasten Buttigieg
At the Porch · $11.90Amazon
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
At the Porch · $9.99Amazon
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Sloane Crosley
At the Porch · $17.00Amazon
I'd Like to Play Alone Please
Tom Segura
At the Porch · $18.99Amazon
In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
Tom Junod
At the Porch · $32.00Amazon
In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir * Signed
Tom Junod
At the Porch · $37.00Amazon
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria Machado
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
At the Porch · $17.00Amazon
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
John Adams
McCullough, David (Author)
At the Porch · $22.00Amazon
Julie Andrews: A Little Golden Book Biography
Christy Webster
At the Porch · $5.99Amazonout of stock
Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider
Jessica Lanan
At the Porch · $19.99Amazon
Kid Stays in the Picture
Robert Evans
At the Porch · $21.99Amazon
Last Lion Box Set
Paul Reid (Author), William Manchester (Author)
At the Porch · $150.00Amazon
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo (Better Bundo Book, Lgbt Children's Book)
Marlon Bundo
At the Porch · $18.99Amazon
Leonardo Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
At the Porch · $22.00Amazon
Life of - La Vida de Pele
Patty Rodriguez (Author), Ariana Stein (Author), Citlali Reyes (Illustrator)
At the Porch · $9.99Amazon
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library)
Garry Wills
At the Porch · $18.99Amazon
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
Fred Kaplan
At the Porch · $19.99Amazon
Lionel Messi A Little Golden Book Biography
Roberta Ludlow, Nomar Perez
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers
Taisia Kitaiskaia, Katy Horan
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Little Letters of Thanks
Redmond, Lea (Author)
At the Porch · $9.95Amazonout of stock
Lucille Ball: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Magellan
Stefan Zweig
At the Porch · $19.95Amazon
Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
At the Porch · $45.00Amazon
Mark Twain *SIGNED BY AUTHOR*
Ron Chernow
At the Porch · $50.00Amazonout of stock
Me Talk Pretty One Day
At the Porch · $19.99Amazon
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Robert A Caro
At the Porch · $24.00Amazon
Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter
Steven Rinella
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
Molly's Game: The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World
Molly Bloom
At the Porch · $18.99Amazon
Montaigne
Zweig, Stefan
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
David McCullough
At the Porch · $21.00Amazon
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglas
At the Porch · $17.00Amazon
My Dog Skip
Willie Morris
At the Porch · $16.00Amazon
My Reading Life
Pat Conroy
At the Porch · $30.00Amazon
Necessary Trouble
Drew Gilpin Faust
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Night
Elie Wiesel (Author), Marion Wiesel (Translator)
At the Porch · $13.00Amazon
No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)* Signed By Author
Kate Bowler
At the Porch · $32.00Amazon
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
Onwuachi, Kwame (Author) , Stein, Joshua David (Author)
At the Porch · $17.00Amazon
Notes to John
Joan Didion
At the Porch · $32.00Amazon
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue)
Stephen King
At the Porch · $18.99Amazon
Open: An Autobiography
Agassi, Andre
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
Oprah Winfrey: A Little Golden Book Biography
Alliah L. Agostini
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Orlando: A Biography (Vintage Classics)
Virginia Woolf, Carmen Maria Machado
At the Porch · $12.00Amazon
OTOTO - NEW - Pinot
OTOTO
At the Porch · $29.95Amazon
Pageboy: A Memoir
Page, Elliot (Author)
At the Porch · $20.99Amazonout of stock
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
Taylor Branch
At the Porch · $28.00Amazon
Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A Caro
At the Porch · $26.00Amazon
Persian Expedition (Revised)
Xenophon (Author), Rex Warner (Translator), George Cawkwell (Introduction by)
At the Porch · $17.00Amazon
Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark
Julia Baird
At the Porch · $23.00Amazon
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
Taylor Branch
At the Porch · $22.00Amazon
Pontius Pilate
Wroe, Ann (Author)
At the Porch · $21.00Amazon
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman
William Lee Miller
At the Porch · $23.00Amazon
Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton
At the Porch · $27.00Amazon
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Susan Orlean
At the Porch · $18.99Amazon
Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
Goodman, Rob (Author) , Soni, Jimmy (Author)
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment #2)
Ross, Rebecca
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
B.H Liddell Hart
At the Porch · $24.99Amazon
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Simone Biles: A Little Golden Book Biography
JaNay Brown-Wood
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Taussig, Rebekah (Author)
At the Porch · $16.99Amazon
Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor (Author), Annette Gordon-Reed (Foreword by)
At the Porch · $22.00Amazon
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)
Joan Didion
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
Something in the Woods Loves You
Jarod K. Anderson
At the Porch · $30.00Amazon
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
At the Porch · $35.00Amazon
Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography
Rob Lowe
At the Porch · $18.99Amazon
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Feynman, Richard P (Author) , Gates, Bill (Introduction by) , Leighton, Ralph (Editor)
At the Porch · $16.99Amazon
Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
At the Porch · $24.99Amazon
Tenderheart: A Cookbook About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds
Hetty Lui McKinnon
At the Porch · $40.00Amazon
The Apricot Memoirs
Guinery, Tess (Author)
At the Porch · $16.99Amazon
The Beatles: A Little Golden Book Biography
Judy Katschke
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
Von Drehle, David (Author)
At the Porch · $26.00Amazon
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism
Doris Kearns Goodwin
At the Porch · $24.99Amazon
The Gift: 14 Lessons to Save Your Life
Edith Eger
At the Porch · $27.00Amazon
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
Schwab, V E (Author)
At the Porch · $26.99Amazon
The Kelce Brothers: A Little Golden Book Biography
Apple Jordan, Macky Pamintuan
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940
William Manchester
At the Porch · $24.00Amazon
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
William Manchester (Author), Paul Reid (Author)
At the Porch · $26.00Amazon
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
William Manchester
At the Porch · $25.00Amazon
The Life Of - La Vida de Selena
Patty Rodriguez (Author), Ariana Stein (Author), Citlali Reyes (Illustrator)
At the Porch · $9.99Amazon
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition
Grant, Ulysses S (Author) , Marszalek, John F (Editor) , Nolen, David S (With) , Gallo, Louie P (With) , Williams, Frank J (Preface by)
At the Porch · $23.00Amazon
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux, Dave Eggers
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
The Power Broker
Robert A Caro
At the Porch · $27.00Amazon
The Real Win: Pursuing God's Plan for Authentic Success
Colt McCoy, Matt Carter
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Author: Edmund Morris
At the Porch · $26.00Amazon
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella
Meyer, Stephenie (Author)
At the Porch · $11.99Amazon
The Wright Brothers
McCullough, David (Author)
At the Porch · $19.99Amazon
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
This Boy's Life (30th Anniversary Edition): A Memoir
Tobias Wolff
At the Porch · $17.00Amazon
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller
Ron Chernow
At the Porch · $28.00Amazon
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. *SIGNED BY AUTHOR*
Ron Chernow
At the Porch · $28.00Amazonout of stock
To Hell and Back
Audie Murphy
At the Porch · $18.99Amazon
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (Author), Chihiro Iwasaki (Illustrator), Dorothy Britton (Translator)
At the Porch · $11.00Amazon
Truman
David McCullough
At the Porch · $26.00Amazon
Tunnel of Bones (City of Ghosts #2), 2
Victoria Schwab
At the Porch · $8.99Amazon
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup (Author), Ira Berlin (Introduction by), Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
Up from Slavery
Booker T Washington
At the Porch · $12.00Amazon
Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird
At the Porch · $20.00Amazon
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
Abramovic, Marina
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
Walter Isaacson: The Genius Biographies: Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Leonardo Da Vinci (Boxed Set)
Walter Isaacson
At the Porch · $88.00Amazon
Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow
At the Porch · $41.00Amazon
Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry
David Streitfeld
At the Porch · $35.00Amazon
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir
Murakami, Haruki (Author)
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
At the Porch · $27.00Amazon
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
Weintraub, Jerry (Author) , Cohen, Rich (With)
At the Porch · $19.99Amazon
When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi
David Maraniss
At the Porch · $20.99Amazon
White Album (FSG Classics)
Joan Didion
At the Porch · $18.00Amazon
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough
Hayley Rocco, John Rocco
At the Porch · $19.99Amazon
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
At the Porch · $19.00Amazon
William Shatner: A Little Golden Book Biography
Bruce Hale
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon
Willie Nelson: A Little Golden Book Biography (Little Golden Book)
Smith, Geof (Author) , Ebbeler, Jeffrey (Illustrator)
At the Porch · $5.99Amazon