Biographies worth reading?

Question

Can anyone recommend a good biography that is worth reading?

Answer 1

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah

"In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty."
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ean=9780374105235&z=y


The Reagan Diaries
by Ronald Reagan, Douglas Brinkley (Editor)

Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson

Cultural Amnesia
by Clive James

A Woman in Charge (Hillary Clinton)
by Carl Bernstein

The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama

Answer 2

Paula by Isabel Allende is a fantastic memoir. As her daughter lies in a coma, Allende recounts her family history in hopes that some day she will be able to share the stories with her daughter again. Not only does it depict an interesting history of Chile, it also shows the raw emotion of a mother faced with losing her child.

FYI: Memoirs of a Geisha is a novel, not a biography

Answer 3

Stevie Ray Vaughn, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings

Answer 4

A Child Called "It", The Lost Boy and a Man Named Dave byDave Pelzer

Answer 5

Memoirs of a Geisha

Diary of Anne Frank

Answer 6

Princess and Princess Sultana's Circle. true account of Suadi Arabia's traetment of women and te muslim lifestyle, by a Saudi Arabian princess. she changes her name to protect herself. both hideous and fascinating at the same time.

Answer 7

I would recommend The Autobiography of Malcolm X any day.

http://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Malcolm-X-Told-Haley/dp/0345350685