Biographies
Resource Information
The form Biographies represents a specific category or genre of resources found in McCracken County Public Library.
The Resource
Biographies
Resource Information
The form Biographies represents a specific category or genre of resources found in McCracken County Public Library.
- Label
- Biographies
A sample of Items that are about the Form Biographies See All
Context
Context of BiographiesGenre of
No resources found
No enriched resources found
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 13 artists children should know
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1917 : Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder
- 20 fun facts about Alexander Hamilton
- 20 fun facts about Benjamin Franklin
- 20 fun facts about George Washington
- 20 fun facts about James Madison
- 20 fun facts about Thomas Jefferson
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there
- A band called Death
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of the first all-black high school rowing team
- A perfect 10 : the truth about things I'm not and never will be
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A portrait in poems : the storied life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
- A promised land
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A super sticky mistake
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A very punchable face
- A view from abroad : the story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
- A voice named Aretha
- A wild idea
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- AC/DC 1973-1980 : the Bon Scott years
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- AOC: the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : Defender of the Union!
- Abraham Lincoln : President
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Across the river : life, death, and football in an American city
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adventures of a ballad hunter
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : traveler, archaeologist, and author
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Capone : icon
- Alan Turing
- Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life & inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the fighting founding father!
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred Nobel
- Ali : a life
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard -- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard--boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All creatures great and small
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All over but the shoutin'
- All that heaven allows: : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Always young and restless : my life on and off America's #1 daytime drama
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : pioneer of the sky!
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American animals : a memoir
- American daughter : a memoir
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- An invisible thread
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson : The Making of America
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson
- Andy Warhol
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : get to know the girl beyond her diary
- Anne Frank : witness to history!
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Apropos of nothing
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Aretha Franklin
- Ariana Grande : music superstar
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Audrey Hepburn
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents, and the books they wrote
- Autumn
- Babe Ruth : baseball's all-time best!
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Bach's musical universe : the composer and his work
- Bad girls throughout history : 100 remarkable women who changed the world
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Bamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Barney Dreyfuss : Pittsburgh's baseball titan
- Baseball superstar Aaron Judge
- Baseball's G.O.A.T. : Babe Ruth, Mike Trout, and more
- Basketball superstar Lebron James
- Basketball superstar Stephen Curry
- Basketball's G.O.A.T. : Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and more
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be brave, be brave, be brave
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli in his world
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Because he's Jeff Goldblum : the life and memes of the coolest actor in Hollywood
- Becoming
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Beeswing : losing my way and finding my voice, 1967-1975
- Before Andrew Jackson was president
- Before Barack Obama was President
- Before Donald Trump was president
- Before Franklin D. Roosevelt was president
- Before John Adams was president
- Before John F. Kennedy was president
- Before Ronald Reagan was president
- Before Teddy Roosevelt was president
- Before Thomas Jefferson was President
- Before Ulysses S. Grant was President
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Belushi
- Benjamin Banneker : self-educated scientist
- Benjamin Franklin : a nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #32 : To the future, Ben Franklin!
- Benjamin Franklin : inventor of the nation!
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Bessie Smith : a poet's biography
- Betsey. : a memoir
- Betty Ford : first lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Betty Ford : women's rights and health advocate
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Bevelations : lessons from a mutha, auntie, bestie
- Beyoncé : the queen of pop
- Beyond valor : a World War II story of extraordinary heroism, sacrificial love, and a race against time
- Big Apple diaries
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Gates : Microsoft founder and philanthropist
- Bill Traylor : chasing ghosts
- Billie
- Billie Eilish
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Blackbeard : a notorious pirate in the Caribbean
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Blood, bone, and marrow : a biography of Harry Crews
- Blue grass boy : the story of Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass music
- Bob Dylan
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Booker T. Washington
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to fly : a memoir
- Born to run
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins
- Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Breaking barriers : the story of Jackie Robinson
- Breaking vegan : one woman's journey from veganism, extreme dieting, and orthorexia to a more balanced life
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- Bring on the empty horses
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Brother Robert : growing up with Robert Johnson
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Call me American : the extraordinary true story of a young somali immigrant.
- Called out : why I traded two dream jobs for a life of true calling
- Calvin Coolidge
- Camille Claudel
- Captured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- Carrying the colors : the life and legacy of Medal of Honor recipient Andrew Jackson Smith
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Centered : trading your plans for a life that matters
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game
- Chester Arthur
- Choosing courage : inspiring stories of what it means to be a hero
- Chris Paul
- Christian Yelich
- Christopher Columbus : discovering the Americas
- Chuck Berry : the original king of rock 'n' roll
- Chunky
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Clarence Saunders & the founding of Piggly Wiggly : the rise & fall of a Memphis maverick
- Clarence's big secret
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Claude Monet
- Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson : environmental protector
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra
- Coco Chanel
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated woman
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Confessions of a bookseller
- Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Corazon Aquino
- Coretta Scott King
- Counting on Katherine
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Crave : a memoir of food and longing
- Crazy rich : power, scandal, and tragedy inside the Johnson & Johnson dynasty
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- Cubed : the puzzle of us all
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman keeper
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dad's maybe book
- Dadland
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dark midnight when I rise : the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Dark star : a biography of Vivien Leigh
- Dark was the night
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darkest hour [book on cd] : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Darwin's rival : Alfred Russel Wallace and the search for evolution
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Attenborough
- David Bowie : a life
- Dear Abigail : the intimate lives and revolutionary ideas of Abigail Adams and her two remarkable sisters
- Dear Mr. Beckett : the Samuel Beckett file
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diana : 7 days
- Diana : Her True Story - In Her Own Words
- Diana at sixty
- Diana, our mother : her life and legacy
- Dick Waterman : a life in blues
- Different strokes : Serena, Venus, and the unfinished Black tennis revolution
- Dirty sexy money : the unauthorized biography of Kris Jenner
- Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century
- Disloyal : a memoir : the true story of the former personal attorney to the president of the United States
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolly Parton, songteller : my life in lyrics
- Don't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo
- Don't go gentle : a film about idles
- Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
- Don't worry, he won't get far on foot
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Down the up staircase : three generations of a Harlem family
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Drew Brees
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Dying : a memoir
- Dylan & me : 50 years of adventures
- Easy crafts for the insane : a mostly funny memoir of mental illness and making things
- Eat like a fish : my adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer
- Edison
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- El Deafo
- El Deafo : superpowered edition
- Eleanor
- Eleanor Roosevelt : progressive reformer
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, Volume three, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ellen DeGeneres : television comedian and gay rights activist
- Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elvis : still taking care of business
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Enemies in love : a German POW, a Black nurse, and an unlikely romance
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life
- Escape : one day we had to run
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eureka! : 50 scientists who shaped human history
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Everything is under control : a memoir with recipes
- Everything's bigger in Texas : the life and times of Kinky Friedman
- Exquisite : the poetry and life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- FOR THAT ONE DAY : the Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida : Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Fallout
- Famous phonies : legends, fakes, and frauds who changed history
- Far out man : tales of life in the counterculture
- Faster : how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Field notes from an unintentional birder : a memoir
- Fierce poise : Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- Fighting for space : two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight
- Films of endearment : a mother, a son and the '80s films that defined us
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Finding Narnia : the story of C.S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding Vivian Maier
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding my father : his century-long journey from WWI Warsaw--and my quest to follow
- Finding my voice : my journey to the West Wing and the path forward
- Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
- Finish the fight! : the brave and revolutionary women who fought for the right to vote
- Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor, an American life
- First principles : what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country
- Five wars : a soldier's journey to peace
- Flamin' hot : the incredible true story of one man's rise from janitor to top executive
- Florence Nightingale : the courageous life of the legendary nurse
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Flying free : how Bessie Coleman's dreams took flight
- Football superstar Aaron Rodgers
- Football superstar Tom Brady
- Football's G.O.A.T. : Jim Brown, Tom Brady, and more
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
- Foxfire 11 : the old homeplace, wild plant uses, preserving and cooking food, hunting stories, fishing, and more affairs of plain living
- Foxfire 12 : war stories, Cherokee traditions, summer camps, square dancing, crafts, and more affairs of plain living
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Frank & Ava : in love and war
- Frankie liked to sing
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : the 32nd president
- Franklin Pierce
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Free lunch
- Free thinker : sex, suffrage, and the extraordinary life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography