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* ''Literature/IsaacAsimovPresentsGreatScienceFictionStoriesOf1940'': Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the sixteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Creator/IsaacAsimov's perspective.

* ''Literature/IsaacAsimovPresentsGreatSFStories1940'': Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the sixteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Creator/IsaacAsimov's perspective.

!!Notable Biographies:

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-> ''I am not writing history but biography, and the most outstanding exploits do not always have the property of revealing the goodness or badness of the agent; often, in fact, a casual action, the odd phrase, or a jest reveals character better than the battles...I must be allowed to devote more time to those aspects which indicate a person's mind and to use these to portray the life of each of my subjects, while leaving their major exploits and battles to others.''

* [[ImperialGermany Imperial German]] soldier Creator/ErnstJunger's seminal UsefulNotes/WorldWarI memoir ''[[Literature/StormOfSteel Storm of Steel]]'', which details what life in the trenches was like for the average grunt.

* The ''ParallelLives'' of {{Plutarch}} is generally considered to be the UrExample of the biography as we understand it, as it focuses not on grand historical events but on the smaller ones that cast light on the subjects' personalities.

* [[ImperialGermany Imperial German]] soldier Ernst Jünger's seminal UsefulNotes/WorldWarI memoir ''[[Literature/StormOfSteel Storm of Steel]]'', which details what life in the trenches was like for the average grunt.

** ''Saint Joan'', also by George Bernard Shaw, about [[JeanneDArchetype Joan of Arc]]

* [[ImperialGermany Imperial German]] soldier Ernst Jünger's seminal WorldWarI memoir ''[[Literature/StormOfSteel Storm of Steel]]'', which details what life in the trenches was like for the average grunt.

** ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}'', about the relationship between composers Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart and Antonio Salieri

* ''My Feuds and Actions'', the autobiography of 16th century German knight and mercenary GotzVonBerlichingen.

** ''[[MButterfly M. Butterfly]]'', about a French diplomat stationed in communist China who carries on a long-term affair with an opera singer -- whom (he claimed) he didn't know was really a man and not a woman

** ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}'', about the relationship between composers WolfgangAmadeusMozart and Antonio Salieri

* Literature/TheGame Is a self help book and the story of Neil Strauss' accent to Pickup Artist all in one package.

* "Literature/IKnowWhyTheCagedBirdSings" is one of the most famous autobiographical books, telling about Maya Angelou's childhood.

* AChineseGirlInTheGhetto.

** ''[[TheSoundOfMusic The Sound of Music]]'', about the Trapp Family
** ''Fiorello!'', about New York City's Depression era mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama)

* Parson Weems' biography of GeorgeWashington is infamous for having just plain made up certain incidents to make Washington look even more morally upright.

* ''Literature/{{Night}}'' is the autobiography of sixteen-year-old Elie Wiesel going through concentration camps in the [[WorldWarII Holocaust]].

* The ''Series/JohnAdams'' miniseries on HBO is a biography of [[JohnAdams the title character]].

* ''The Little House on the Prairie'' by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a fictionalized autobiography.

* Literature/{{Night}} is the autobiography of sixteen-year-old Elie Wiesel going through concentration camps in the [[WorldWarII Holocaust]].

** ''[[TheLionInWinter The Lion in Winter]]'', about England's King Henry II, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, and their scheming sons Richard the Lionheart, Prince John and Prince Geoffrey