Free Biography Books

46 public-domain Biography titles, free to read online in the BingeReaders reader. Browse all genres or the whole library.

• A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations — J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler
• A dictionary of American authors — Oscar Fay Adams
• A Pickle for the Knowing Ones — Timothy Dexter
• American Indian Stories — Zitkala-Sa
• Autobiography — John Stuart Mill
• Autobiography of a Yogi — Paramahansa Yogananda
• Boswell's Life of Johnson: Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood — James Boswell
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater — Thomas De Quincey
• Ecce Homo: Complete Works, Volume Seventeen — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
• Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners — John Bunyan
• Herman Melville — Lewis Mumford
• Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic — Raymond M. (Raymond Melbourne) Weaver
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself — Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs
• Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy; Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern — James E. (James Edward) Talmage
• Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe — Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals — Louisa May Alcott
• Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete — Albert Bigelow Paine
• Mata Hari : $b Courtesan and spy — Thomas Coulson
• Memoirs of My Life and Writings — Edward Gibbon
• Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman — William Godwin
• Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H — Frederic Boase
• Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q — Frederic Boase
• My Life and Loves, Vol. 1 (of 4) — Frank Harris
• My Life — Volume 1 — Richard Wagner
• My Recollections of Lord Byron — Teresa, contessa di Guiccioli
• My Reminiscences — Rabindranath Tagore
• Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 2 (of 2) — Frank Harris
• Pen-portraits of literary women : $b by themselves and others, Volume 2 (of 2) — Unknown
• Robert Frost: A study in sensibility and good sense — Gorham Bert Munson
• Selections from Viri Romae — C. F. L'Homond
• Strength and How to Obtain It — Eugen Sandow
• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin — Charles Darwin
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Confessions of St. Augustine — of Hippo, Saint Augustine
• The Education of Henry Adams — Henry Adams
• The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete — John Forster
• The Life of Sir Richard Burton — Thomas Wright
• The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers — Diogenes Laertius
• The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20) — Henry David Thoreau
• The Memorabilia — Xenophon
• The Romantic Composers — Daniel Gregory Mason
• The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux: With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse — de Lisieux, Saint Thérèse
• The Story of My Life: With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy — Helen Keller
• The story of Nelson — Edmund Francis Sellar
• Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Wagner as Man & Artist — Ernest Newman