Question of the Week
Question of the Week #24: Lives in Writing
You've created some great mini-memoirs in response to our newest Reader Challenge. Tell us: which "regular size" biographies and autobiographies are your favorites, and why?
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_Same Kind of Different As Me_ by Ron Hall was a powerful account of two very different men who were brought together by one woman.
Apr 27, 2009 1:48 pm
by leann0330 -
Savage Beauty- Edna St Vincent Milay
Apr 27, 2009 3:12 pm
by EDITHJWHARTON -
The Last Lecture, inspiring words from a dying man. The more i read, the more i saw of myself. Very inspiational. I spent hours reflecting on his words.
Apr 27, 2009 9:40 pm
by auistinblan -
The Color of Water-- James McBride
Apr 27, 2009 10:34 pm
by Lorelai53 -
Oh the Glory of it All - Sean Wilsey. A hysterical, heart-wrenching tale about the author growing up in San Francisco to wealthy, self-obsessed parents, full of modest parables about life, comfort and excess.
Apr 28, 2009 1:55 pm
by McGlaven -
I can't remember the title of it, but I read an illuminating book about Marie Curie once.
Apr 29, 2009 9:17 am
by books -
Lance Armstrong's "It's Not About the Bike" was great because, while it was revolved around two things in Lance's life (Cycling and Cancer), it made me think about so many other things.
Apr 29, 2009 11:02 am
by jrainis -
Delmore Schwartz : the life of an American poet / by James Atlas. I enjoy almost all bios of poets from this time period.
Apr 30, 2009 12:51 pm
by meebra -
Amelie Nothomb's 'Character of the Rain' and Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando' (if fictional biographies count too). Both of them are hilarious, caustic and unique in perspective.
May 1, 2009 11:56 am
by kafkanian -
Lee Iococa. He created the Ford mustang and save Chrysler from bankruptcy.
by misterm -
I joined this site because I have always wanted to read the biography of President Grant (supposed to be the best president's book). And the autobiography Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington which I'm in the process of reading.
May 26, 2009 9:27 am
by dreamdust -
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. The prose was incredibly lucid for a work written in the 1840s. It also shows you how ambition can carry you far, despite unjust or impoverished circumstances or backgrounds.
May 26, 2009 9:14 pm
by wellreadscholar -
Of all the biographies of Winston Churchill I have read, the two of a three part by the American author William Manchester are the ones that captured the essence of the man. (The Last Lion & The Lion at Bay). It was a tragedy he died before he had completed the third.
by MANICHAEAN -
"The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller. It's beautiful. You almost forget that she's blind by the way she describes so vividly the scenes.
Jun 16, 2009 9:58 pm
by saturntv