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Biography Book Summaries
Learn from extraordinary lives with ReadWize's biography book summaries. Innovators, leaders, artists, and thinkers — the stories and lessons of remarkable people, distilled for inspiration.
Biography books on ReadWize tell the stories of remarkable people — innovators, leaders, artists, scientists, and thinkers who changed the world. Our summaries distill the key lessons, decisions, and turning points that defined their lives into insights you can learn from.
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8 books

Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
60m 4.9BiographyAdvanced

Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
55m 4.7BiographyAdvanced

Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
50m 4.7BiographyAdvanced

Open
Andre Agassi
40m 4.7BiographyAdvanced

Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
38m 4.6BiographyAdvanced

Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
25m 4.6BiographyAdvanced

The Diary of a CEO
Steven Bartlett
35m 4.4BiographyAdvanced

Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
28m 4.4BiographyAdvanced
Biography — Frequently Asked Questions
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance, and Born a Crime by Trevor Noah are among our most-read biographies.