Biography
A Biography is the life history of an individual written by someone else.
An Autobiography is the story of a person's life, written by that person.
A Memoir is a collection of a person's memories, written by that person.
Find the books below on the New Books/Leisure Reading cart by the Library Help Desk or on the shelves in the Mainstacks area.
Pulitzer Prize Winners - Biography / Memoir / Autobiography
King: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner - Biography) by 
Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize Winner - Memoir/Autobiography) by 
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Pulitzer Prize Winner - Biography) by 
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by 
Stay True by Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by 
The Dead Are Arising : The Life of Malcolm X by 
Sontag by 
Prairie Fires by 
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by 
The Pope and Mussolini by 
Margaret Fuller by 
George F. Kennan by Additional Recommended Biographies
These titles and others may be found in Mainstacks on Montgomery Library's main floor. If you cannot find a book in the Mainstacks area, check the New Books/Leisure Reading cart.
| D 753 .P26 2024 | The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower |
| E 176.2 .C37 2010 | First ladies: from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama / Betty Boyd Caroli |
| E 184 .A7 T68 2014 |
There was and there was not: a journey through hate and possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and beyond / Meline Toumani |
| E 185.97 .K5 E44 2023 | King: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner - Biography) |
| E 450 .C8 W66 2023 | Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Pulitzer Prize Winner - Biography) |
| E 457.5 .A44 2015 | Fortune's fool: the life of John Wilkes Booth / Terry Alford |
| E 840.8 .W395 A3 2014 | I heard my country calling / James Webb |
| GV 1785 .B3 L48 2022 | Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy / Damien Lewis |
| HV 8746 .U6 W35 2022 | Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail |
| ML 395 .T94 2024 | The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America |
| PN 2287 .N557 A3 2016 |
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood / Trevor Noah |
| PQ 7298.28 .I8982 Z4613 2023 | Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize Winner - Memoir/Autobiography) |
| PS 1016 .R67 2023 | A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott |
| PS 1449 .C85 Z543 2021 | Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane |
| PS 3602 .R6458 Y45 2019 |
The yellow house / Sarah M. Broom. |
| PS 3618 .O5355 Z46 2022 | The Man Who Could Move Clouds / Ingrid Rojas Contreras |
| QH 31 .H9 B37 2022 | The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution |
| R 692 .N56 2021 | The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women - and Women to Medicine / Janice P Nimura |
| RC 523.2 .H47 2022 | Diary of an Alzheimer's Caregiver |
| UB 418.T72 W58 2022 | With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in their Own Words |
| Z 116 .A43 S9 2024 | The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives |
| Z 466 .E43 W37 2021 | Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller / Nadia Wassef |
