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Biography and Autobiography: Home

What are biographies and autobiographies?

A biography is the story of a person's life, written by someone else. An autobiography is the writer's own life story. A memoir focuses on a particular incident or time in someone's life, rather than recounting their entire story.

Autobiographies in our Library

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 9780141182759
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X.; Alex Haley (As told to); M. S. Handler (Introduction by)
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 0345350685
Bronte's Story by Bronte Cullis
Call Number: 616.8526
ISBN: 174051307X
Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daugher by Adeline Yen Mah
Call Number: 920
Dear Fatty by Dawn French
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 9781846053450
Desert Flower and Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 1844081052
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Call Number: 920
Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye by Allison Dubois
Call Number: 133.91
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Call Number: 920
Grief Girl: my true story by Erin Vincent
Call Number: 920
I, Safiya by Safiya Hussaini
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 9780330422000
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Call Number: 920
My Forbidden Face by Latifa
Call Number: 920
My Story: A Boy Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer
Call Number: 920
Salvation Creek: An Unexpected Life by Susan Duncan
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 1863254749
Ugly by Robert Hoge
Call Number: 920 HOG
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
ISBN: 9780349106533

Autobiographies in our Library

Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 9781741757750
The Bone Woman by Clea Koff
Call Number: 920
Eat, Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything by Elizabeth gilbert
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 9780747585664
Eli's Wings by Elizabeth Best
Call Number: 920
Finding Nevo by Nevo Zisin
Call Number: 920 ZIS
The Hospital by the River by Dr Catherine Hamlin
Call Number: 362.1
ISBN: 9780732910822
How to be Happy by David Burton
Call Number: 920 BUR
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 9780385608268
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
Call Number: 920
On Two Feet and Wings: One Boy's Amazing Story of Survival by Abbas Kazerooni
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 9781743311059
Red Dog in Bandit Country by Bill Reading
Call Number: 920
Running Like China by Sophie Hardcastle
Call Number: 920 HAR
Stick Figure: A diary of my Former Self by Lori Gottlieb
Call Number: 616.8526
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Call Number: 920
Ugly by Constance Briscoe
Call Number: 362.76092
When I was a Soldier by Valerie Zenatti
Call Number: 920.00956
This Star Won't Go Out by Esther Earl
ISBN: 9780141354033

Sports and Adventure Biographies

AKA by Jason Akermanis; Gary Smart; Phil Jauncey (Foreword by)
Call Number: 796.336
ISBN: 0975225510
The Ballad of les Darcy by Peter FitzSimons
Call Number: 796.83
ISBN: 9780732286361
Born to Run by Cathy Freeman
Call Number: 796.42092
The Boy from Bowral: the story of Sir Donald Bradman by Robert Ingpen
Call Number: 796.358
Don't Look Behind You, But ... by Peter Allison
Call Number: 916.804
The Life of Riley by Lin Riley
Call Number: 920
Lionheart by Jesse Martin; Ed Gannon
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 9781865083476
Mud, Sweat and Tears by Bear Grylls
Call Number: 910.92
Occy: the rise and fall and rise of Mark Occhilupo by Mark Occhilupo and Tim Baker
Call Number: 920
Tony Hawk by Tony Hawk; Sean Mortimer
Call Number: 796.2
ISBN: 9780060096892
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Call Number: 796.522092
Cristiano Ronaldo : the biography by Balague, Guillem
ISBN: 9781409155058
Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
ISBN: 1416507728

Biographies in our Library

Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep by Siba Shakib
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 0712623396
In the Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
Call Number: 920
Joan of Arc: The story of Jehanne Darc by Lili Wilkinson
Call Number: 920
Kilroy Was Here by Kristin Olsson; Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by)
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 1863254471
Let's Roll! by Lisa Beamer; Ken Abraham (As told to)
Call Number: 920
ISBN: 0842373195
A Man Called Possum by Max Jones
Call Number: 923
Tree Shaker: the story of Nelson Mandela by Bill Keller
Call Number: 920

For Teachers

EQ One by Ann Schofield, Theresa Saunders, et al.
Call Number: 808
ISBN: 9780701634087
English at Eleven: VCE English Units 1 & 2 by Toni Glasson
Call Number: 808
ISBN: 9780701634391
Contexts & Conventions: TEE English by Rod Quin and Hugh Rayner
Call Number: 808.042
ISBN: 9780733908132
English 1 by Toni Glasson
Call Number: 808.042
ISBN: 9780858597723
English Courseways by Rod Quin, Hugh Rayner, et al.
Call Number: 808.042
ISBN: 9780733973031
Queensland Senior English: Theory-practice connections by Margaret Miller and Robyn Colwill
Call Number: 428.0076
ISBN: 9780732988777

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