I forget how many games are in the recent edition of Lawson's biography of Paul Morphy, but it certainly is not very many.
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/17/archives/paul-morphy.html
I think that there was a mostly gameless biography of Kasparov.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8021-1103-6
I do not think that there is much game content in Botvinnik's Achieving the Aim.
Same for Pachman's Checkmate in Prague.
That's a start! I'll look into these... thank you!
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708084438/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review275.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110941/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review401.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233723/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review541.pdf
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/World-Champions-I-Knew-The-80p3749.htm
Are there any books that would be out there, too?
I am looking for biographies of chess players, but without games within. I want the story of their life.
I recently read Endgame (the Bobby Fischer book) and that was basically what I was interested in knowing. I can find the games anywhere, I really want to know the stories.
So, knowing this, is there anyone who can point me to chess player biographies that don't contain games (or at least not more than a couple games)?