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Alexander Hamilton, Frida Kahlo, Steve Jobs and more — check out the 30 best biographies you absolutely have to read in a lifetime.

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Oct 17, 2025 · Meet the music legends, cultural icons and inspiring rebels whose stories made the list of the best biographies and memoirs we’ve read this year.

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From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive, New York Times bestselling biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Sep 10, 2025 · We compiled a list of all the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies since the year 2000, as recommended by our editors and expert interviewees.

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May 13, 2025 · Ron Chernow’s latest, and widely-anticipated, biography of “ Mark Twain ” has just been released. Among his seven previous books are biographies of Alexander Hamilton, …