Autobiography Books

Dancing in the Water of Life

Dancing in the Water of Life

by Thomas Merton

The sixties were a time of restlessness, inner turmoil, and exuberance for Merton during which he closely followed the careening development of political and...

tags: religion, biography, spirituality, christianity, theology, autobiography, nonfiction

A Writer's Diary, Volume Two, 1877-1881

A Writer's Diary, Volume Two, 1877-1881

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a...

tags: nonfiction, history, autobiography, cultural, biography, classics, literature, essays, writing, 19th century, russia, russian literature

Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies

Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies

Grace AboundingGrace Abounding (1666) is a classic work of spiritual autobiography--a genre which flourished in Calvinist England as anxiety over the state or...

tags: theology, literature, christianity, religion, biography, nonfiction, autobiography

My Religion

by Helen Keller

Helen Keller had absolutely no hearing or eyesight from the age of two, but became one of the most inspiring and well known people to have ever lived. For a...

tags: memoir, religion, biography, nonfiction, autobiography

My Journey - Crystal Cathedral Edition

My Journey - Crystal Cathedral Edition

by Robert H. Schuller

"In 1955, I accepted a call from the Classis of California of the Reformed Church in America to establish a church in central Orange County. Certainly the...

tags: spirituality, biography, inspirational, nonfiction, autobiography

Selected Writings

Selected Writings

by Thomas Carlyle

As a prophet and preacher, Carlyle was an important and controversial figure in nineteenth-century thought. Carlyle is best known for his impressionistic...

tags: philosophy, essays, history, victorian, literature, politics, writing, 19th century, classics, memoir, autobiography, nonfiction, historical

The Price of Success

The Price of Success

by J.B. Phillips

tags: autobiography, biography

Turning Toward The World: The Pivotal Years

Turning Toward The World: The Pivotal Years

by Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton's literary legacy finds him working in a new hermitage at the Abbey of Gethsemani, conducting interfaith dialogue with Protestant and Jewish...

tags: religion, spirituality, biography, christianity, theology, autobiography, nonfiction

Confessions of a Happy Christian

Confessions of a Happy Christian

Ziglar's autobiography exclaims those born-again need not wander through life with long faces and short funds.

tags: christian, biography, autobiography, self help

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Including Poor Richard's Almanac, and Familiar Letters

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Including Poor Richard's Almanac, and Familiar Letters

by Benjamin Franklin

Printer, author, philanthropist, abolitionist, scientist, librarian, diplomat, inventor, philosopher, self-aggrandizer, and social wag, Benjamin Franklin is...

tags: nonfiction, autobiography, biography, history

Thomas Merton in Alaska

Thomas Merton in Alaska

by Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton spent two weeks in Alaska in 1968 just prior to his fateful trip to the East. He had no thought of publication either of his journal or his...

tags: religion, spirituality, theology, memoir, autobiography, nonfiction

William Barclay: A Spiritual Autobiography

William Barclay: A Spiritual Autobiography

by William Barclay

This hardback book "William Barclay" is preowned but is in very good condition. It is 1975. The dust cover has shelf wear. I do not see markings in the book...

tags: religion, biography, autobiography

Diaries 1821-1848: The Monroe Doctrine / Henry Clay and the Election of 1824 / Presidency / Father’s Death and Son’s Suicide / The Age of Jackson / House of Representatives / Amistad Case / Triumph over the Gag Rule

Diaries 1821-1848: The Monroe Doctrine / Henry Clay and the Election of 1824 / Presidency / Father’s Death and Son’s Suicide / The Age of Jackson / House of Representatives / Amistad Case / Triumph over the Gag Rule

by John Quincy Adams

For the 250th anniversary of Adams’s birth, Library of AmericaLibrary of America and historian David Waldstreicher have prepared a two-volume reader’s edition...

tags: biography, nonfiction, autobiography, history, war

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