Not classics per se, but what bio/autobiography have you enjoyed most?
Not classics per se, but what bio/autobiography have you enjoyed most?
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Not classics per se, but what bio/autobiography have you enjoyed most?
Carrie Brownstein’s memoir
Long Walk to Freedom.
I was a 10 year little girl, who loved libraries and books. One afternoon after school, I was at a neighborhood library in Chicago and I spied a brand new book with a bright orange cover. I took it off the shelf, checked it out and took it home.
The book I found was a biography of Joseph Pulitzer.
I loved it and have never forgotten the thrill of taking my treasure home and reading it from beginning to end.
This book was my first and only biography. From there I moved on to spies, crimes and mysteries?
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain. Heartbreaking!
I read that many years ago after watching the film on Masterpiece Theater.
I just started one on Marie Antoinette and I’m surprised at how much I’m enjoying it!
Which book is it?☺️
Marie Antoinette- the last queen of France by Evelyne Lever
I’ve always been afraid to read biographies, assuming I’d get bored by them. But this book has been great!
@Crystal ah that’s wonderful! eager to read it now as well
RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
ANGELA’S ASHES, THE GLASS CASTLE, A SENSE OF WHERE YOU ARE, SILENT SPRING, WALDEN, IN COLD BLOOD, A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN, THE RIGHT STUFF, OUTLIERS, THE PRINCE, THE REPUBLIC, THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS, DIARY OF ANN FRANK, MEDITATIONS, COLLECTED ESSAYS OF GEORGE ORWELL, THE SECRET LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, THE ART OF WAR, BLACK BOY, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM, THE WOMAN WARRIOR: MEMOIRS OF A GIRLHOOD AMONG GHOSTS, APOLOGY, RIGHTS OF MAN, THE EGO AND THE ID, SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM, ON WRITING, ESSAYS OF E. B. WHITE, A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE, THE TIPPING POINT, NIGHT, PILGRIM AT PINKER CREEK, THREE CUPS OF TEA, NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, and KAFFIR BOY. It’s too hard to pick.
Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. It’s more of a “don’t try this at home, folks” cautionary tale than an inspirational one; still, it did inspire me to want to try the Pacific Crest Trail or some other, similar long hike someday. Although with a bit more planning and a couple of companions.
The Diary of Anne Frank, The Story of My Life (Helen Keller), An Interrupted Life (Etty Hillesum), The Journal of Hélène Berr, Richard III by Paul Murray Kendall, The Sisters who would be Queen by Leanda de Lisle – that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
Jim Henson by Brian Jay Jones.
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‘Dear Me’ by Peter Ustinov
I’ve not read many. The memoir the glass castle is an excellent read though ?
Mutant King by David Dalton
Eleanor Roosevelt biographies and autobiographies.
Angela’s ashes by frank mccourt / black milk by elif shafak / lipsticks and bullets fairouz abdalla
Definitely Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt. Also this somewhat obscure one: Sister Aimee by Daniel Epstein.
Leonardo DaVinci
The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. A great book !
Am reading the Autobiography of Malcolm X right now. ???
Mark twain’s autobiography was the best book I’ve ever read. Also, walter Cronkite, Stephen king, malcolm x and van Gogh.
Joan Didion year of magical thinking
I read Blue Nights
Biography of Ingmar Bergman
Mark Twain, Malcolm X, Bob Schieffer, Walter Cronkite, Helen Thomas, Stephen King.
Don’t let me be misunderstood by Eric Burdon