People/Biographies - Audio Books

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Frank Brady

From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the bestselling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded. I have known what it...

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Anonymous

The truth only fiction can tell. This is a novel about aspiration and delusion, set during the presidenti...

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Ron Reagan

February 6, 2011, is the one hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth. To mark the occasion, Ron Reag...

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Annie Dillard

A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer ...

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Ariel Sabar

The handsome Texas sailor who offers dinner to a runaway in Central Park. The Midwestern college girl who s...

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Philip Carlo

In researching his acclaimed true-crime books, Philip Carlo interviewed some of the most infamous criminals...

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Patton Oswalt

“Further proof that Patton Oswalt is way funnier than I am, which is either high praise or an insult. Your ...

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Annie Proulx

"Bird Cloud" is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-fo...

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Glenn Beck

Radio and television host Glenn Beck has experienced the rollercoaster of life like few others.  From ...

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Roseanne Barr

BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND TELEVISION STAR ROSEANNE BARR IS BACK—WITH A VENGEANCE—AND THE RESULT IS ROSEANNEARC...

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David McCullough

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMS Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biog...

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Stephen E. Ambrose

Citizen Soldiers opens on June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends on May 7, 1945. From the high com...

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Kathleen Krull

Which president barked like a dog—and why did another bark like a seal? Who threw lavish dinner parties wit...

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Richard Henry Dana

In 1834, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., went from Harvard student to common seaman, sailing from California to Ca...

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Allen Shawn

A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism When Allen Shawn and h...

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Heather Havrilesky

This is a stunningly perceptive, hilarious memoir of the transformative humiliation of childhood—and adulth...

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Mark Twain

In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious...

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Mark Twain

Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ...

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James Weldon Johnson

In James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping and poignant look into race relations, a half-white half-bla...

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Mark Twain

The Mississippi River, known as “America’s River” and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American cul...

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Terry Gould

Worldwide, nearly 75% of journalists who die on assignment are murdered for their pursuit of stories of inj...

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Edited by Charles Neider

Mark Twain’s daughter Susy wrote: “Papa…doesn’t like to go to church at all, why I never understood, until ...

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John Lukacs

On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as Prime M...