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I really enjoy autobiographies – do you have a favorite one?

I really enjoy autobiographies – do you have a favorite one?

Luis #review #biography

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Georgie

These are my two favourites, Eric Clapton, and Peter Ustinov ?

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Samir

Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau..
The Words (Les mots) by Jean Paul Sartre..
I read them both in French..

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Amy

I loved the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. He’s such a great writer.

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Amy

I think it was called The Life and Narrative of Frederick Douglass. Is it all in that book?

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Amy

Ooh, wonderful! I’m so glad you replied-it’s going on my Christmas list. Thanks for the info Kevin!

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Marc

An easy, but fulfilling, read is “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.”

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Lily

Angela’s Ashes, ‘Tis, and Teacher Man by Frank McCourt.

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Marc

All are from the heart, and are beautiful and wonderful. McCourt was special!

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Marichelle

Coco Chanel

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Sheri

…i really like Melissa Etheridge’s. … But I also really liked her.

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Chris

Kruschev remembers

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Chris

The New York times said it best “First things first. This is Nikita S. Khrushchev speaking—speaking in voice that often is his familiar earthy self, flailing at Stalin (and paying off old party scores), again justifying his brashest, most dangerous maneuvers, preening himself over Eisenhower, Dulles, “that son‐of‐a‐bitch Nixon,” Mao (“not a madman”) and Malen kov, warm but a mite condescending on J.F.K. and R.F.K., tendentiously revising history to burnish his image and, finally, like a great Russian patriarch, calling upon his country men to create a new and better society, a freer more pleasant com munity of men under, of course, what he calls the banner of Marxism Leninism.” Sums it up pretty well. Very much get his peasant to politician rise feel in it

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Heather

This was the best autobiography I’ve ever read! I followed the case since the news broke of the crime. I still think about this story

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Maxwell

Rick Bragg’s bio of Jerry Lee Lewis. One of my favorite writers. Received Pulizer writing for the NYTimes.

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Mindy

To Hell and Back

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Mindy

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LuisQuestion author

Very well written. Read this one a few years ago. Thank you!

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Karen

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah and Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming

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Karen

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29780253-born-a-crime?ac=1&from_search=true

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Karen

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22934446-not-my-father-s-son?ac=1&from_search=true

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Anindita

Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson. It is a biography, but i think it’s great.

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LuisQuestion author

Agreed! I have not finished that one but I enjoyed the style… thank you!

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Tammy

Keith Richard’s lol

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