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Biography
A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is an account of a person's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film.
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Memoirs of a Mongol without a Pony
by R.G. Stern (Goodreads Author)
by R.G. Stern (Goodreads Author)
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date: Mar 09, 2016
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Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
by Michael Sims
by Michael Sims
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date: Jan 24, 2017
In ARTHUR AND SHERLOCK, Michael Sims traces the circuitous development of Conan Doyle as the father of the modern mystery, from his early days in
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A House of Sticks (Memoirs of a Bigamist's Daughter)
by Belinda Vasquez Garcia (Goodreads Author)
by Belinda Vasquez Garcia (Goodreads Author)
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date: Jul 21, 2016
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Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.
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― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
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Because I always feel like running
Not away, because there is no such place
Because if there was, I would have found it by now
Because it's easier to run,
Easier than staying and finding out you're the only one who didn't run
Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described,
As in "the long run"
Or as in having "given someone a run for his money"
Or as in "running out of time"
Because running makes me look like everyone else, though I hope there will never be cause for
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― Gil Scott-Heron, Now and Then...
― Gil Scott-Heron, Now and Then...
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