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A & B – Biography Books PDF

  • “Hank” Aaron Free Online Biography Book
  • Adams, Charles Francis
  • Adams, Henry Free Autobiography Online
  • Adams, John, U.S. President
  • Adams, Abigail Smith Free Biography
  • Adams, John Quincy, U.S. President
  • Adams, Samuel
  • Addams, Jane
  • Agassiz, Louis Free Correspondence
  • Ailes, Roger
  • Louisa May Alcott Free Online Biographies
  • Alexander the Great Biographies PDF Download
  • Alfred the Great, King of England Biography
  • Ambrose, Stephen Autobiography Free PDF
  • Andersen, Hans Christian Biographies Download PDF
  • Angelou, Maya Autobiography Free
  • Anthony, Susan B.
  • Antin, Mary Free Memoirs
  • Appleseed, Johnny Download Biographies
  • Audubon, John James Free Biographies
  • Jane Austen Free Biography
  • Barnum, Phineas Taylor “P.T.” Free Online Autobiography
  • Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
  • Barton, Clara Harlowe
  • Ludwig van Beethoven ebook Biography
  • Harry Belafonte Autobiographies PDF
  • Benny, Jack Free Biography
  • Benton, Thomas Hart
  • Sarah Bernhardt Autobiography Free PDF
  • Berra, Lawrence Peter “Yogi”
  • Bird, Larry
  • Otto von Bismarck, Biography Book
  • Black Elk Free Memoir
  • Black Hawk
  • Blake, William Free Biography Book
  • Bloch, Robert
  • Bly, Nellie (Seaman, Elizabeth) Free PDF Memoir
  • Bochkareva, Maria Leontievna (Frolkova) Autobiography eBook
  • Bolton, Sarah Knowles Autobiography eBook
  • Bombeck, Erma
    Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) PDF Biography
    Daniel Boone Free Online Biography
    Booth, Catherine Mumford
    Borgia, Lucrezia
    Bourdain, Anthony Free Autobiography PDF
    Brahms, Johannes
    Charlotte Bronte PDF Download Biography
    Bronte, Emily
    Bronte, Anne
    Brooke, James, Rajah of Sarawak
    Browning, Robert
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning Letters Free
    Bryan, William Jennings
    Buffalo Bill (Cody, William Frederick) Free Biographies Online
    Barbara Pierce Bush Free Autobiographies
    George Herbert Walker Bush U.S. President Free Correspondence
    Bush, Laura Lane Free PDF Autobiography

C – Autobiographies and Biographies PDF

  • Gaius Julius Caesar Biography in English
    Calhoun, John Caldwell
    Calvin, John
    Cantacuzène, Julia Dent Grant (Princess Cantacuzène) Autobiography eBook Free Download
    Carlyle, Thomas
    Hoagy Carmichael Free Memoirs
    Andrew Carnegie Autobiography Free PDF
    Carroll, Lewis
    Carson, Christopher
    Cartier, Jacques
    Cary, Alice
    Cary, Phoebe
    Cass, Lewis
    Caterina da Siena, Saint
    Cavour, Camillo Benso, Conte di

  • Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
    Champlain, Samuel de
    Chapman, John (Johnny Appleseed)
    Charlemagne Biographies PDF Download
    Salmon Portland Chase Biography Download
    Chaucer, Geoffrey
    Chopin, Fryderyk
    Clark, George Rogers
    Clarke, Mrs. Caroline Cowles
    Henry Clay Biographies Download
    Clemenceau, Georges
    Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens Free Correspondence
    Hilary Rodham Clinton Free Online Biography
    Cobb, Ty
  • Cobden, Richard
    Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill)
    Coffin, Levi
    Cohen, Rose Gollup
    Columbus, Christopher
    Cook, James
    Cooper, James Fenimore
    Coughlin, Father Charles
    Crane Gartz, Kate
    Cromwell, Oliver
    Cumming, Kate
    Curie, Marie Sklodowska
    Curie, Pierre
    Custer, George Armstrong

D, E & F

  • Daly, Augustin
  • Dante (Alighieri, Dante)
  • Darwin, Charles Robert
  • Davies, William Henry
  • Davis, Jefferson
  • Davis, Miles
  • Dean, James
  • Debs, Eugene
  • Deutsch, Leo
  • Dewey, George
  • Dewey, Thomas E.
  • Dickens, Charles
  • Diderot, Denis
  • Disraeli, Benjamin
  • Dostoevsky, Fedor
  • Douglas, Stephen A.
  • Douglass, Frederick
  • Du Bois, W.E.B.
  • Edison, Thomas Alva
  • Edwards, Jonathan
  • Eggleston, Edward
  • Elizabeth, Queen of England
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  • Isabella d’Este, Consort of Giovanni Francesco II
  • Evans, Robley Dunglison
  • Farragut, David Glasgow
  • Ferber, Edna
  • Fink, Mike
  • Ford, Betty
  • Ford, Gerald R., U.S. President
  • Ford, Henry
  • Francis of Assisi, Saint
  • Franklin, Aretha
  • Franklin, Benjamin
  • Franklin, John
  • Fraser, Mary Crawford
  • Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
  • Friedan, Betty
  • Fulton, Robert

G, H

  • Gale, Zona
    Galileo
    Gallatin, Albert
    Gambetta, Leon Michel
    Garfield, James A., U.S. President
    Garrison, William Lloyd
    Garvey, Marcus
    Gauguin, Paul
    George, Henry
    Geronimo, Apache Chief
    Gladstone, William Ewart
    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
    Goldsmith, Oliver
    Goodman, Benny
    Gordon, Charles George
    Grant, Ulysses Simpson, U. S. President
    Grey, Zane
    Grissom, Virgil “Gus”
    Guevara, Ernesto “Che”
  • Hale, Edward Everett
    Hamilton, Alexander
    Hannibal
    Hardie, James Keir
    Harding, Warren G., U.S. President
    Hardy, Thomas
    Harris, Townsend
    Harrison, Benjamin, U.S. President
    Harrison, William Henry, U.S. President
    Harte, Bret
    Haviland, Laura
    Hawthorne, Nathaniel
    Hayes, Rutherford B., U.S. President
    Hefner, Hugh
    Hegermann-Lindencrone, Lillie de
    Hemingway, Ernest
    Henry the Navigator
    Henry, Patrick
  • Herman, Woody
    Hickok, “Wild Bill”
    Hill, Lucy Ann
    Hoffa, James
    Holmes, Oliver Wendell
    Homer, Winslow
    Houdini, Harry
    House, Edward Mandell
    Houston, Samuel
    Howe, Julia (Ward)
    Hugo, Victor
    Hurston, Zora Neale
    Hyndman, Henry Mayers

I, J, K, L – Biography and Autobiography Books PDF

  • Iacocca, Lee
  • Ibsen, Henrik
  • Irving, Washington
  • Isabella d’Este
  • Iswolsky, Alexander Petrovich
  • Jackson, Andrew, U.S. President
  • Jackson, Thomas Jonathan
  • James, William
  • Jaures, Jean
  • Jay, John
  • Jeanne d’Arc, Saint (Joan of Arc)
  • Jefferson, Thomas, U. S. President
  • Johnson, James Weldon
  • Johnson, William
  • Jones, John Paul
  • Kartini, Raden Adjeng
  • Keats, John
  • Keller, Helen Adams
  • Kellogg, Clara Louise
  • Kennan, George
  • Kenton, Simon
  • Kevorkian, Jack
  • King, Martin Luther
  • Kropotkin, Pyotr, Prince
  • Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul, Marquise de
  • Lardner, Ring
  • Laurier, Wilfrid
  • Lee, Robert Edward
  • LeMay, Curtis
  • Leopold, Aldo
  • Letterman, David
  • Liberace
  • Lincoln, Abraham, U. S. President
  • Lincoln, Mary Ann Todd
  • Liszt, Franz
  • Livermore, Mary Ashton
  • Livingstone, David
  • Lloyd George, David
  • Lombardi, Vince
  • London, Jack
  • Louis, Joe
  • Loyola, Ignacio de, St
  • Luther, Martin

M, N, O

  • MacDonald, John Alexander
  • Machiavelli, Niccolo
  • Madison, Dolley Payne
  • Madison, James Jr., U.S. President
  • Madonna
  • Magellan, Ferdinand
  • Mann, Horace
  • Marquette, Jacques
  • Marshall, John
  • Martin, Dean
  • Marx, Karl
  • Mather, Cotton
  • McCarthy, Joseph
  • McKinley, William, U. S. President
  • McQueen, Steve
  • Catherine de Medicis, Queen of Henry II, King of France
  • Meir, Golda
  • Melville, Herman
  • Milton, John
  • Monroe, James, U. S. President
  • Moody, Anne
  • Morgan, James Morris
  • Morris, Gouverneur
  • Morris, William
  • Morrison, Toni
  • Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
  • Mozart, Johann Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Muir, John
  • Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
  • Napoleon III, Emperor of the French
  • Nehru, Jawaharlal
  • Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount
  • Ness, Eliot
  • Newman, John Henry, Cardinal
  • Nicklaus, Jack
  • Nightingale, Florence
  • Nixon, Richard Milhous, U.S. President
  • Oakley, Annie
  • O’Connell, Daniel
  • O’Keeffe, Georgia
  • Owen, Robert
  • Owens, Jesse

P, Q, R – Biography PDF

  • Page, Larry
    Paine, Ralph Delahaye
    Paine, Thomas Biography Free Online
    Parkman, Francis
    Pasteur, Louis
    Patrick, Saint
    St. Vincent de Paul
    Pauley, Jane
    Penn, William
    Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
    Pepys, Samuel Biography PDF
    Perry, Oliver Hazard
    Peter I, the Great, Emperor of Russia Biography Book PDF
    Petrarca, Francesco
    Pitt, William,
    Pizarro, Francisco
    Poe, Edgar Allan
    Pontiac, Odawa Indian Chief
    Porter, Cole
    Post, Marjorie Merriweather
    Prince, Erik
    Pryor, Sara Agnes (Rice)
    Pumpelly, Raphael
    Pyle, Ernest “Ernie” Free Online Biography
  • Raleigh, Sir Walter
    Randolph, John
    Ravage, Marcus Eli
    Reagan, Ronald, U.S. President Biography Free Online
    Redmond, John Edward
    Reed, Anna Stevens
    Rehnquist, William H.
    Reid, Whitelaw
    Resnik, Judith
    Reuther, Walter
    Rhodes, Cecil John Biography Book PDF
    Richards, Caroline Cowles
    Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal
    Rickenbacker, Eddie
    Riel, Louis
    Riis, Jacob August
    Ringling Brothers
    Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore de
    Rogers, Roy
    Romney, George
    Roosevelt, Theodore, U.S. President Biography PDF
    Ross, Diana
    Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Biography PDF
    Rossetti, Christina Georgina
    Rousseau, Jean Jacques Biography Book PDF
    Ruskin, John Biography PDF

S – Best Biography Books PDF

  • Samuels, Captain Samuel
    Savonarola, Girolamo Biography PDF
    Schubert, Franz Peter Biography Book PDF
    Schurz, Carl
    Schuyler, Catherine (Van Rensselaer)
    Sedgwick, Catharine M.
    Sevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de
    Seward, William H.
    Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry Biography PDF

  • Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper
    Shaw, Anna Howard
    Shaw, George Bernard Biography PDF
    Sherman, William Tecumseh
    Skinner, Burrhus Frederic
    Slessor, Mary Mitchell
    Smith, Adam
    Smith, John
    Smith, Joseph Jr.
    Spencer, Herbert Biography PDF
    Stanley, Henry Morton
    Steinbrenner, George
  • Steinem, Gloria
    Steiner, Edward Alfred
    Stevens, Thaddeus
    Stillman, William James
    Stowe, Harriet Beecher
    Straus, Oscar Solomon
    Strindberg, August
    Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots
    Sullivan, Louis Henry
    Sumner, Charles
    Swedenborg, Emanuel

T, U, V

  • Taft, William Howard, U.S. President
    Talon, Jean
    Taylor, Marshall “Major”
    Biography of Tecumseh PDF
    Thomas, Augustus
    Thoreau, Henry David Biography PDF
    Thurston, Lucy G.
    Titian, Vecelli
    Tolstoy, Leo Biography PDF

  • Torquemada, Tomas de
    Tracy, Spencer
    Trudeau, Edward Livingston
    Truth, Sojourner Biography PDF
    Tubman, Harriet Biography PDF
    Twain, Mark Biography PDF (Clemens, Samuel Langhorne)
  • Vaka, Demetra (Mrs. Kenneth Brown)
    Van Buren, Martin, U.S. President
    Venizelos, Eleftherios
    Verlaine, Paul Marie
    Victoria, Queen of Great Britain
    Villiers, Frederic
    St. Vincent de Paul
    Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
    Vonnegut, Kurt Biography Book PDF

W, X, Y, Z – Autobiographies and Biographies Free Online

  • Waddington, Mary Alsop King
    Wagner, Richard
    Walker, Madam C. J. Free Online Biography
    Wallace, Lew Online Biographies
    Ward, Mary Augusta
    Warner, Jack
    Warwick, Richard Neville, Earl of
    Washington, Booker T. Free Online Biographies
    Washington, George, U.S. President Free Online Biography
    Washington, Martha Dandridge
    Waterbury, Maria
    Watson, Jeannette Grace

  • Webster, Daniel
    Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington
    Wells, Ida B. Free Online Biographies
    Wesley, John
    Westinghouse, George
    Whitman, Walt Biography Books in English
    Willard, Frances
    William, the Conqueror, King of England
    Williams, Roger
  • Wilson, Woodrow, U.S. President Free Online Biography
    Winslow, Anna Green
    Winthrop, John
    Wister, Sarah
    Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal
    Woolf, Virginia PDF Download Biography
    Wright Brothers
    Wright, Frank Lloyd Free Biography Download
    Wycliffe, John
    X, Malcolm
    Yeats, William Butler PDF Download Biography
    Younghusband, Sir George John

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