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Walter Isaacson 2011

Walter Isaacson spent years talking with Steve Jobs, and with the people who worked alongside him and despaired of him. …

Ashlee Vance 2015

Ashlee Vance's original English biography of Elon Musk: his life from South Africa to the top of the technology world, f…

Dave Pelzer 1995

Dave Pelzer describes the years in which his mother starved him, scalded him and treated him as a thing while sparing hi…

Frank McCourt 1999

Frank McCourt recounts a childhood in Limerick shaped by hunger, damp and a drinking father, and does it with a humour t…

Alison Bechdel 2007

Alison Bechdel draws the story of her father, who ran a funeral home, loved literature and concealed his homosexuality, …

Edward Snowden 2020

Edward Snowden tells how a boy who loved computers became an intelligence contractor, and what he saw there that led him…