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Any good non celebrity biographies?

Any good non celebrity biographies??

Jodi #recommend #biography

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Mia

I’m not sure if it counts as biography but A Piece of Cake by cupcake brown was an amazing book. It’s her memoirs and she isn’t a celebrity

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Leandra

I read that years ago! It was so good but heartbreaking ?

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JodiQuestion author

I just checked it out online.

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Emily

Townie by Andres Dubus III is a good one

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Debra

Spitfire Girl by Jackie Moggridge

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Mikah

Mountains Beyond Mountains. It’s about Dr. Paul Farmer who started Partners in Health to provide healthcare to people in Haiti.

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Shannon

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

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JodiQuestion author

I read that and loved it. He’s a skilled writer.

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Shannon

I’m liking it so far! I’m about halfway done ?

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Steven

Richard Ellmann on Wilde, Joyce and Yeats. Peter Ackroyd on More, Dickens, and Eliot.

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Tim

I’m reading The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester right now. Really good. It’s about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Tim

What I should have said: It’s about William Chester Minor, the largest contributor of quotes in the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Lori

I enjoyed this book.

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Maggie

Hands of my Father Myron Uhlberg

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Ashley

A memoir I liked is riding with dead people by monica holloway

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Sharron

Wedlock by Wendy Moore. The Biography of the first woman to obtain a divorce in eighteenth century Britain. It will make you cry but ultimately make you cheer for this heroic woman.

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Crystal

It’s What I Do by Lynsey Addario

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Paula

Runs with scissors and Dry by Augusten Burroughs, Walking with the wind by John Lewis (about civil rights) is fantastic ❤️❤️. Yeah that’s all I got right now!

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Susie

Katherine Graham’s autobiography, fascinating!

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Susan

Barbarian Days:a Surfing Life

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Ariannah

You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day. I read the book and the Audio book. The family enjoyed the Audio version together.

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Jen

Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall. Its about her life growing up and then escaping a polygamist sect.

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Nidhi

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis. Rosa Parks is famous but her full bio isn’t well known.

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Dijah

John Adams!

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