Biography
Every biography author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Biography traces a whole life from the outside — its shape, and the moments that turned it. Find each author's works in sequence.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Before Taylor Jenkins Reid became a novelist known for contemporary fiction that explores love, ambition, and the versions of ourselves...
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Delia Owens
Delia Owens is an American author and wildlife scientist who won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing before turning...
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Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman is a Swedish author who writes contemporary fiction, novellas, and nonfiction. His work has been published in more...
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Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown is an American author who writes young adult fantasy novels, best known for the Red Rising series that...
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Tara Westover
Tara Westover is a historian and memoirist who writes about the tension between self-invention and family loyalty. She grew up...
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Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell, an Irish author, writes fiction and historical fiction novels. Her novel Hamnet won the 2020 Women’s Prize for...
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Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American author and physician who turned personal displacement into universal stories. He practiced medicine for ten...
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Adam Kay
Adam Kay is a British author and screenwriter, formerly a doctor. He is best known for This Is Going to...
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James McBride
James McBride is an American author and musician who writes historical fiction and nonfiction. He grew up in Brooklyn, New...
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Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is an Australian author who writes young adult novels and children's books. Growing up in Sydney, Zusak became...
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Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist. She grew up in the American Southwest and Welch, West Virginia, experiencing...
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Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer is an American writer, journalist, and mountaineer known for his non-fiction books about outdoor adventures and investigative journalism....
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Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb is an American novelist whose fiction draws on the small-town Connecticut landscape where he grew up. Born and...
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Stella Rimington
Stella Rimington is a British author who writes spy thrillers and is known for her Liz Carlyle series. She is...
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Scott McEwen
Scott McEwen is an American author who writes military fiction and non-fiction, drawing on a background that includes law, military...
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Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson is an American author and blogger known for her candid explorations of mental illness through dark humor and...
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Jennifer Worth
Jennifer Worth was an English nurse and author who turned her experiences delivering babies in postwar London into a cultural...
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Anne Glenconner
Anne Glenconner is an English author known for her memoirs about her life at the heart of British aristocracy and...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015. That's the year Viet Thanh Nguyen published The Sympathizer and changed the conversation about war, memory, and who gets...
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Sonia Purnell
Sonia Purnell is a British author of non-fiction books, known for her lively style and extensive research. She made her...
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Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger is a writer whose work spans narrative nonfiction, journalism, and documentary filmmaking, often focusing on people confronting extreme...
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Han Kang
Han Kang is a South Korean novelist, short story writer, and poet whose fiction explores the violence inscribed on bodies...
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Luke Jennings
Luke Jennings is a British author and journalist known for his Killing Eve series of books. Before becoming a writer,...
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Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold is an American author who writes literary fiction novels and non-fiction books. She is known for her raw...
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Jordan Belfort
Jordan Belfort is an American author who writes nonfiction memoirs about his years as a stockbroker, a life that began...
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Chanel Miller
Chanel Miller is an American writer and artist who brought her story to the world with Know My Name, a...
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Sarah Perry
Sarah Perry is an English author whose writing style is deeply influenced by the classic novels and poetry she read...
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Celia Imrie
Celia Imrie is an English author of novels and an Olivier Award-winning actress. She has appeared in films such as...
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Iain Reid
Iain Reid is a Canadian author who writes psychological thrillers. Before turning to novels, he published articles and columns in...
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Jack Coughlin
Jack Coughlin is an American author of military fiction and a retired Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. After...
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Frank Gardner
Frank Gardner is the BBC's full-time Security Correspondent. He's also a novelist. His dual life gives his fiction an edge...
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Lady Colin Campbell
Lady Colin Campbell is a British author who writes about the Royal Family and aristocratic life, bringing an insider's perspective...
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Rachel Harrison
Rachel Harrison is an American author who writes horror novels. She holds a degree in Writing for Film & Television...
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Kimi Cunningham Grant
Kimi Cunningham Grant is an American author who writes both fiction and memoir. She made her debut in 2012 with...
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Aimee Molloy
Aimee Molloy is an American author who has written both nonfiction and psychological thrillers, bringing her skill for exploring hidden...
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Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez is an American author who received the 2018 National Book Award for The Friend, a novel that also...
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Karl Marlantes
Karl Marlantes is an American author who writes fiction and non-fiction. A graduate of Yale University and a Rhodes Scholar...
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Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist and author who writes about climate change, mass extinction, and the human reshaping of...
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Jenna Blum
Some writers find their voice early and never let go. Jenna Blum started writing at four, turned professional at sixteen,...
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Samantha Irby
Samantha Irby is an American author, comedian, and blogger who writes essay collections and has contributed to television shows. She...
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Nicola Upson
Nicola Upson is an English author of historical mystery novels who writes the Josephine Tey Mysteries series. Before turning to...
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Iceberg Slim
Robert Beck, who wrote under the name Iceberg Slim, was a crime fiction and non-fiction author whose work drew directly...
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Caroline Corcoran
Caroline Corcoran is a British author and journalist who writes domestic thrillers. Her debut novel, Through the Wall, published in...
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Ann Leary
Ann Leary is an American novelist who writes women's literary and historical fiction. Her work has been translated into eighteen...
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Drew Magary
Drew Magary is an American author and columnist who writes both speculative fiction and nonfiction, moving between dystopian novels and...
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Monica Hesse
Monica Hesse is an American author who writes historical fiction and science fiction for young adults, and made her debut...
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David Chang
David Chang is a Korean-American restaurateur, television host, and author. He is best known for founding the Momofuku restaurant group,...
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Dalton Fury
Dalton Fury was an American author of military thrillers and non-fiction. He served more than twenty years in the military,...
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Signe Pike
Signe Pike is a historical fiction author known for The Lost Queen series. Her debut novel, The Lost Queen, was...
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Anders De La Motte
Anders de la Motte is a Swedish author of crime thrillers. His debut novel, Game, was published in 2013. Before...
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