Any recomendation for a biography of a writer dead or alive?
Any recomendation for a biography of a writer dead or alive?
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Any recomendation for a biography of a writer dead or alive?
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Yes, very good memoir
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Prairie Fires
Isaac Asimov.
An interesting book about writers is called, Final Chapters. Mini biographies that include their final words.
Truman Capote
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The audio book is a must. He reads it himself and it contributes greatly to the book. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1531865046/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_EQbRBb5QMQXXF
@Michaelann I was so keen on his book but something came up and I lost interest in him! Talk about bad publicity
Educated, Angela’s Ashes. Wild
What Is It All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man, autobiography by Art Garfunkel. Unconventional and fascinating. Not My Father’s Son, by Alan Cummings.
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C. S. Lewis: A Life
Agatha Christie’s memoirs are a fantastic insight into the age.
Memoirs. Pat Conroy Stephen King. How I Write.
Wild Mary by Patrick Marnham. Mary Wesley started writing in her ‘70s drawing on her very colourful life. Love her books?
Janet Frame’s autobiography An Angel at my Table is sooo good. I didn’t know who she was when I read it but it’s really good.
Richard Ellman on Yeats, Wilde, Or Joyce, Peter Ackroyd on Blake or Dickens, Bernard Crick on George Orwell
Savage Beauty. By Nancy Mitford. It’s about the wonderful (though many people don’t even know about her!) 20th century poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Just realised we both cited writers writing about other writers. Is there a theme here?
Logical Family by Armistead Maupin
If you are a Bronte fan there are several choices. The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte Emily And Anne by Catherine Reef. More in-depth is The Brontes by Juliet Barker. Or the lesser known, The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte, by Daphne du Maurier was a treat. If The Brontes are not your cup of tea, perhaps The Mitford Sisters: Letters Between Six Sisters by Charlotte Mosley. Though not all were writers, this collection of letters was very good and vividly connected the women to their extraordinary time in history.
Thank you all
Check out Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9219901
Tibetan peach pie by Tom Robbins was an interesting listen
Anything about the Brontes