Favorite biography? Mine is Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography.
Favorite biography? Mine is Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. After all, the man invented the public library! How could he not be fascinating? 😉
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Huey P Long by T Harry Williams is a longstanding fav! Also, Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie.
Truman by David Mccollough
Highly recommend
I don’t have one, but I’m following for the recommendations!
McCullough’s John Adams or Chernow’s Washington. So much of the Adamses’ personal corespondence survives, that his is much more detailed than most early presidents.
I enjoyed Walter Isaacson’s Benjamin Franklin. You’re right, hard to not be fascinated with him, and I’d be curious to read his autobio.
West with the Night by Beryl Markham as an audiobook, also listening to Tina Fey read her autobiography.
I find Gore Vidal a fascinating subject. Biographies by Fred Kaplan and Jay Parini as well as Vidal’s memoir “Palimpsest” are worthy reads.
Autobiographies! Also LOVE West With the Night, and Agatha Christie’s: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16301.An_Autobiography
A woman of Egypt by Jehan Sadat and The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
These are great recommends, thank you! Keep ’em coming!
NOT an autobiography, but Loving Frank is a fascinating read about Frank Lloyd Wright.
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman,” by Richard Feynman. He is a super important scientist, but he is also funny as heck. He once turned down a very high paying job at a prestigious college because it would give him enough money to have a mistress. ?
I agree, he is hilarious – I actually listened to this book on tape.
I am increasingly seeing it being used in academia as well. I saw an intermediate creative expository writing class that used this as their textbook.
I took the wrong section of that class. I saw too late!
Eric by Eric Clapton. Fab book and insight into the 60’s onward history of blues/rock music.
Currently enjoying Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run.”
Jack’s Book : An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
Harpo Speaks. Autobiography plus wonderful insight into variety halls and the relationship between the Marx brothers.
Had heard it was good. The Marx brothers had far more going for them than the gag jokes & vaudeville acts!
I loved several, but Neil White’s In the Sanctuary of Outcasts is the first to come to mind.
Katharine Graham, A Personal History. Fantastic!!