Genre: Biography (19 books)

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

On Friday, 12th June, I woke up at six o' clock and no wonder; it was my birthday

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.

Night

Elie Wiesel

They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China.

Notes from a small island

Bill Bryson

My first sight of England was on a foggy March night in 1973 when I arrived on the midnight ferry from Calais.

Confessions

Saint Augustine

You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised: great is your power and to your wisdom there is no limit.You are great, O Lord, and very worthy of praise; mighty is your power and your wisdom isimmeasurable.'Vast are you, Lord, and vast should be your praise' - 'vast what you do; what you know beyond assaying.'

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night.

The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer

Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.

The Color of Water

James McBride

As a boy, I never knew where my mother was from -- where she was born, who her parents were.

If This Is a Man and The Truce

Primo Levi