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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel (2014) Read More. Shop Now. 4. Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White (2004) Read More. Shop Now. 5. In Love and Struggle: The ...

12. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. Another mysterious explorer takes center stage in this gripping 2009 biography. Grann tells the story of Percy Fawcett, the archaeologist who vanished in the Amazon along with his son in 1925, supposedly in search of an ancient lost city.

This book is best for anyone who ever read a Dr. Seuss book, which is everyone. Brian Jay Jones ' Becoming Dr. Seuss is available from Penguin Random House. 23. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson ...

At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England by Walter Dean Myers. "One terrifying night in 1848, a young African princess's village is raided by warriors. The invaders kill her mother and father, the King and Queen, and take her captive. Two years later, a British naval captain rescues her and takes her to England ...

Now 16% Off. $17 at Amazon. Hermione Lee's biographies of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton could easily have made this list. But her book about a less famous person—Penelope Fitzgerald, the ...

The 21 most captivating biographies of all time. Written by Katherine Fiorillo. Aug 3, 2021, 2:48 PM PDT. The bets biographies include books about Malcolm X, Frida Kahlo, Steve Jobs, Alexander ...

These are the best biographies ever written. By Mark Stock March 23, 2023. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro. Jump to details. $18 Amazon. $24 Bookshop.org ...

Interesting. What is biography? I think of biography as being about a person, so the fact that Seabiscuit: An American Legend is in the top 20 (beating out a lot of really famous people I should add) is a bit astonishing to me. The Biography of A Grizzly also makes an appearance later in the list, a book I read and enjoyed. I supposed that ...

The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts. King by Jonathan Eig. A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell. Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick. Discover the lives of remarkable individuals through the best biographies, chosen from a wide array of reputable literary sources and biography enthusiasts.

Talented biographers examine the interplay between individual qualities and greater social forces, explains Elizabeth Taylor—chair of the judges for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle award for biography.Here, she offers us an overview of their five-book shortlist, including a garlanded account of the life of J. Edgar Hoover and a group biography of post-war female philosophers.

avg rating 3.91 — 10,207 ratings — published 2019. Books shelved as best-biographies: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbr...

Jump to category: Naked Portrait: A Memoir of Lucian Freud by Rose Boyt. The Diaries of Franz Kafka. Me and Mr Jones by Suzi Ronson. Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers by Anne Somerset. Byron ...

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John Adams by David McCullough. Master historian David McCullough was probably the best person to write this riveting biography of America's founding father. John Adams, who also became the second president of the United States, is a great inspiration to many young Americans. McCullough reveals the man of brilliance through his powerful ...

The Best New Biographies and Memoirs to Read in 2024. This year sees some riveting and remarkable lives—from artist Ai Weiwei to singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell—captured on the page. By Nathan ...

Friends, Lovers and the Terrible Thing: A Memoir, by Matthew Perry. Perry, who played Chandler Bing on "Friends," has been candid about his substance abuse and sobriety. In this memoir, he ...

To read Donne is to grapple with a vision of the eternal that is startlingly reinvented in the here and now, and Rundell captures this vision alive in all its power, eloquence and strangeness". -Laura Feigel ( The Guardian) 2. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland.

Reading an autobiography can offer a unique insight into a world and experience very different from your own - and these real-life stories are even more entertaining, and stranger, than fiction.Take a glimpse into the lives of some of the world's most inspiring and successful celebrities, politicians and sports people and more in our edit of the best autobiographies and biographies to read ...

Here are 10 of the most inspiring biographies worth reading right now: 1. A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston. Before Bryan Cranston rose to superstardom as Walter White in Breaking Bad, he played countless offhand roles including Malcolm's father Hal in Malcolm in the Middle. A Life in Parts details Cranston's unlikely rise to stardom and ...

Biography. A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is a non-fictional account of a person's life. Biographies are written by an author who is not the subject/focus of the book. See also: Autobiography. Memoir.

1. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman. Heiligman chronicles the amazing and eccentric lives of the Van Gogh brothers, their relationship with each other, and their work. 2. Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original Girl Reporter by Deborah Noyes.

Here are five things to know about the newly elected president of Mexico that help inform whether she will stray from Mr. López Obrador's policies or dedicate herself to cementing his legacy. 1 ...

WINNER 19,969 votes. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. by. Patrick Radden Keefe. This year's winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for History/Biography, Empire of Pain is an exhaustively researched profile of the Sackler family, the aristocratic American clan that made its fortune making and marketing the painkiller ...

Claudia Sheinbaum, the former head of the government of Mexico City and candidate for the ruling Morena party, is projected to be the country's first female president.