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Books :: Biography

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Note: The name that begins the line is the subject of the biography
* – my favorites on this list
(____) – author, if not an autobiography

 

 

Gladys Aylward – The Little Woman*

Brother Andrew – God’s Smuggler

Samuel Brengle – Portrait of a Prophet (Clarence Hall)**

Amy Carmichael – A Chance to Die (Elizabeth Elliot)*

Oswald Chambers – Abandoned to God (David McCasland)**

CLC International – Leap of Faith (Norman Grubb)*

Jim Elliot – Shadow of the Almighty (Elizabeth Elliot)

Keith Green – No Compromise (Melody Green)*

Rees Howells – Rees Howells Intercessor (Norman Grubb)**

John Hyde – Praying Hyde (EG Carre)

DL Moody – Passion for Souls (Lyle Dorsett)*

Samuel Morris – any bio you can find on him (hard to find)

George Müller – Autobiography (Müller)*

Andrew Murray – Authorized Bio (Leona Choy)*

Jackie Pullinger – Chasing the Dragon (Pullinger)

CT Studd – Cricketer and Pioneer (Norman Grubb)**

Hudson Taylor – Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret (Howard Taylor)**

Corrie Ten Boom – The Hiding Place (Ten Boom)

AW Tozer – Passion for God (Lyle Dorsett)

David Wilkerson – Cross and the Switchblade (Wilkerson)

Richard Wurmbrand – Tortured for Christ (Wurmbrand)**

Brother Yun – Heavenly Man (Yun)

Fair Sunshine (Jock Purves) – about Scottish Covenanters

They Found the Secret (V. Raymond Edman)**

Heroes of the Holy Life (Wesley Duewel)*

They Knew Their God Volumes 1-6 (Harvey/Hey)*

Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians (James Lawson)*

Bible Characters (Alexander Whyte)

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Foxe)