Complete Catalog: Biography, Autobiography
Titles from the Penn Press catalog, grouped by subject.
Alter, Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism (hc 2000, eb 2011)
Auerbach, Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress (hc 1999, pb 2002)
Barroll, Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography (hc 2000)
Becker/Betancourt, Richard Berry Seager: Archaeologist and Proper Gentleman (hc 1997)
BeDuhn, Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 1: Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 C.E. (hc 2009, eb 2012)
BeDuhn, Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2: Making a "Catholic" Self, 388-401 C.E. (hc Mar 2013)
Blakely, My Storm: Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (hc 2011, eb 2012)
Blum, W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet (hc 2007, pb 2009)
Body/Simon, Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years (hc 2005, pb 2009)
Boyer Lewis, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic (hc 2012, eb 2012)
Brown, The Education of Jane Addams (hc 2003, pb 2007)
Chon/Thet, Behind the Killing Fields: A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims (hc 2010, eb 2011)
Contosta, A Philadelphia Family: The Houstons and Woodwards of Chestnut Hill (hc 1988, pb 1992)
Crane, The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman, Abridged Edition (pb 2010, eb 2011)
David, Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life (hc 2007)
Davies, China Hand: An Autobiography (hc 2012, eb 2012)
Dellamora, Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing (hc 2011, eb 2011)
Diaz, Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time (hc Oct 2012, eb 2012)
Dreiser, Dreiser's Russian Diary (hc 1996)
Emerson, Mark Twain, A Literary Life (hc 1999)
Fairbank, Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past (hc 1994, pb 2009)
Foster, Captain Watson's Travels in America: The Sketchbooks and Diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1772-1818 (hc 1997)
Franklin/Conn, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition (pb 2005, eb 2011)
Galperin, The Historical Austen (hc 2002, pb 2005)
Goodman, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin (hc 1956, pb 1974, eb 2011)
Halprin, A Life Spent Changing Places (hc 2011)
Hardwick, Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream (hc 2003, pb 2010)
Heller, Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia (hc Mar 2013)
Jackson, From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice (hc 2006, pb 2009)
Jackson, Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism (hc 2009, pb 2010, eb 2011)
Jefferson/Ford, The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790 (pb 2005, eb 2011)
Kafer, Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic (hc 2004)
Kaldellis, Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity (hc 2004, eb 2011)
Kuklick, Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine (hc 2008, eb 2011)
Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1: Journalist, 1706-1730 (hc 2005)
Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747 (hc 2005)
Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748-1757 (hc 2008)
Liss, Isabel the Queen: Life and Times, 2/e (pb 2004)
Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh (hc 1992, pb 1994, eb 2012)
Marshall/Smith, Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings (hc 2002)
McHugh, Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming To Know Another Culture (hc 2001, pb 2001, eb 2011)
McNeil, Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights (hc 1983, pb 1984, eb 2011)
Merwick, Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time (hc Apr 2013)
Miller, Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South (hc 2009, pb 2011, eb 2011)
Montgomery, Brothers, Sing On!: My Half-Century Around the World with the Penn Glee Club (hc 2005)
Neighbour, The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman's Extraordinary Journey into Jihad (pb 2010)
Plank, John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire (hc 2012, eb 2012)
Poirier/Balinski, Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economist (hc 1996, pb 1998)
Pryor, Clara Barton, Professional Angel (hc 1987, pb 1988, eb 2011)
Ragionieri, Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth (hc 2008, pb 2008)
Rainey, Reflections of a Digger: Fifty Years of World Archaeology (hc 1992)
Rosner, The Most Beautiful Man in Existence: The Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier (hc 1999)
Rottenberg, The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance (hc 2001, pb 2006)
Schoolcraft, Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow (hc 2002, eb 2011)
Schroeder, Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe (hc 2007)
Shapira/Abel, Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography (hc 2007)
Skemp, First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence (hc 2009, pb May 2013, eb 2011)
Slaughter, The Natures of John and William Bartram (pb 2005)
Spencer, In the Crossfire: Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform (hc 2012, eb 2012)
Stone, Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions of American Identity From Henry Adams to Nate Shaw (hc 1982, pb 1982)
Stroud, The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World (hc 2000)
Stroud, The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph (hc 2005)
Symonds, The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti (hc 2002, pb 2002)
Thomas, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock (pb 1998)
Timoney, Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities (hc 2010, eb 2011)
Trix, The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb (hc 2009, eb 2011)
Westheimer, Musically Speaking: A Life Through Song (hc 2003)