Biography Audio

  • "Lucky Man"

    Michael J. Fox reads from his new memoir, revisiting the night he attended the premiere of "Back to the Future" with Princess Diana, and the day he learned he had Parkinson's disease.
  • "War Letters"

    Andrew Carroll, co-founder of the Legacy Project, presents correspondence from American soldiers that encompasses every major conflict from the Civil War to Desert Storm.
  • Don't touch the Channel Master

    In his memoir "Somehow Form a Family," Tony Earley recounts the arrival of color television in his family home and with it the invasion of "The Brady Bunch."
  • Cherry

    Mary Karr recalls an age when children seek out the very trouble their parents hope they will avoid.
  • Twenty-five words or less

    In "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," Terry Ryan's mother, Evelyn, keeps poverty at bay with wit, luck and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and '60s.
  • "The Oldest Rookie"

    In 1998, at age 35, Jim Morris, a high school teacher and baseball coach, made a bet with his young players that would catapult him from a tryout with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays all the way to the major leagues.
  • An Apple III a day keeps the fun away

    Before there was even a Web to surf, "Sunnyvale" author Jeff Goodell quit his job at Apple Computer to go sky diving.
  • Deborah Weisgall

    A Joyful Noise
  • "Hell's Angel"

    Biker legend Sonny Barger recounts the formation of the Oakland Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club and the four wild decades that followed.
  • Anaos Nin

    Anaos Nin Reads
  • Malachy McCourt

    A Monk Swimming
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

    The Autobiography of MLK
  • Molly Ivins & Lou Dubose

    Shrub
  • Maya Angelou

    The Heart of a Woman
  • John McCain

    Faith of my Fathers
  • Nelson Mandela

    Long Walk to Freedom
  • Jackie Lyden

    Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
  • Elizabeth Kim

    Ten Thousand Sorrows
  • Kenn Harper

    Give Me My Father's Body
  • Jane Goodall

    Reason for Hope
  • John Glenn

    A Memoir
  • Keith Fleming

    The Boy with the Thorn in his Side
  • Edmund Morris

    Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
  • Walter Cronkite

    A Reporter's Life
  • Jack Brehm

    Jack Brehm: That Others May Live
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