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Favorite Biographies and Autobiographies

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Angelou, Maya: A Song Flung up to Heaven

(2002)

B-A584sf 2002
Bahr, Diana Meyers: Viola Martinez, California Paiute: Living in Two Worlds

(2003)

B-Ma366b 2003
Bourdain, Anthony: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

(2000)

B-Bo666k 2000
Burroughs, Augusten: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

(2002)

B-Bu944r 2002
Chen, Da: Sounds of the River: A Memoir

(2002)

B-Ch4205s 2002
Conroy, Pat: My Losing Season

(2002)

B-Co764m 2002
Conway, Jill K.: The Road From Coorain

(1989)

B-Co769r
Feynman, Richard Phillips: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Adventures of a Curious Character

(1984)

B-Fe438s
Fisher, Antwone Quenton: Finding Fish: A Memoir

(2001)

B-Fi5312f 2001
Fuller, Alexandra: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

(2001)

B-Fu9577d 2001
Graham, Billy: Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham

(1997)

B-G7415j
Graham, Katharine: Personal History

(1997)

B-Gr76p
Karr, Mary: The Liars' Club: A Memoir

(1995)

B-Ka148L
Kessler, Lauren: Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family

(1993)

B-Ya26k
Kingston, Maxine Hong: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

(1976)

B-K553w
Lauck, Jennifer: Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

(2000)

B-La362b 2000
Massie, Robert: Nicholas and Alexandra

(2000)

B-N597m 2000
McCourt, Frank: Angela's Ashes : A Memoir

(1996)

B-Ma137a
Montefiore, Sebag: Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

(2004)

B-S782mo 2004
Norris, Kathleen: The Virgin of Bennington

(2001)

B-No794v 2001
O'Faolain, Nuala: Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

(1998)

B-Of1aa
Pirsig, Robert M.: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

(1999)

B-P672z 1999
Shames, Laurence: Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived

(2003)

B-Ba285s 2003
Sojourner, Mary: Solace: Rituals of Loss and Desire

(2004)

B-So38s 2004
Steinbach, Alice: Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

(2000)

B-St34w 2000
Taylor, D. J.: Orwell: The Life

(2003)

B-O795t 2003
Wolff, Tobias: This Boy's Life: A Memoir

(1989)

B-Wo8325t
X, Malcolm: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

(1999)

B-X12a 1999

Historical Biographies and Autobiographies

The subjects of these books are historical persons who lived and died before 1900.

Foreman, Amanda: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

(1998)

B-De498f 1998
Franklin, Benjamin: Autobiography

(1967)

B-F831-3
Fraser, Antonia: Marie Antoinette: The Journey

(2001)

B-M334fj 2001
Honan, Park: Shakespeare: A Life

(1998)

822.33 Bhs 1998
Isaacson, Walter: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

(2003)

B-F831ib 2003
McCullough, David G.: John Adams

(2001)

B-A2136m 2001
McMurtry, Larry: Crazy Horse

(1999)

B-Cr859m 1999
Suetonius: Suetonius

(1970)

878 S94 [2 volumes]
Weir, Alison: Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

(2000)

B-E38we 2000

Arts, Sports and Entertainment Biographies and Autobiographies

Aaron, Hank: I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story

(1991)

796.357 A12i
Adams, Ansel: Ansel Adams, an Autobiography

(1985)

770.92 A211a
Bean, Billy: Going the Other Way: Lessons From a Life in and out of Major-League Baseball

(2003)

796.357 B367g 2003
Berg, A. Scott: Kate Remembered

(2003)

791.43028 H529be 2003
Bull, George Anthony: Michelangelo: A Biography

(1996)

700.92 M623b
Cellini, Benvenuto: The Life of Benvenuto Cellini

(1924)

759.5 C393
Chamberlain, Richard: Shattered Love: A Memoir

(2003)

792.028 C443sL 2003
De Mille, Agnes: Martha, the Life and Work of Martha Graham

(1991)

792.8092 G741d
Delbee, Anne: Camille Claudel: Une Femme

(1992)

730.92 C615d
Ferrer, Sean Hepburn: Audrey Hepburn: An Elegant Spirit

(2003)

791.43028 H528f 2003
Fifield, William: Modigliani

(1976)

759.5 M69f
Gogh, Vincent van: Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh

(1937)

759.9492 G613dt
Halberstam, David: The Teammates

(2003)

796.357 H157t 2003
Langdon, Helen: Caravaggio: A Life

(1999)

759.5 C26L 1999
Maraniss, David: When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi

(1999)

796.332 L842m 1999
McEnroe, John: You Cannot Be Serious

(2002)

796.342 M141y 2002
Peters, Margot: Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne: A Biography

(2003)

792.028 L964p 2003
Rathbone, Belinda: Walker Evans: A Biography

(1995)

770.92 E92r
Renoir, Jean: Renoir, My Father

(1962)

759.4 R41rr
Robinson, Roxana: Georgia O'Keeffe: a life

(1999)

759.13 O41r 1999
Sikov, Ed: Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers

(2002)

791.43028 S467si 2002