2007-08-15 07:47:14 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Mia Farrow's autobiography was really good, but very detailed.
Bette Davis has a good biography.
Read about people who you are interested in the most and you'll probably find it the most interesting.
2007-08-15 07:52:12 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Celebrity Hotline♥ (Thumbs up!) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So Far From the Bamboo Grove is an excellent book by Yoko Kawashima Watkins. Her life is so interesting that her autobiography seems like it's fiction. I was surprised to hear it really happened after I had read it. There is also a sequal titled My Brother, My Sister and I.
My late grandfather, Charles Kikuchi wrote The Kikuchi Diary which is amazing. It's about his life in the Japanese relocation centers during WWII.
My opinions might be biased because I'm Japanese so I feel a deeper connection to the people in the biographies. I hope this helps!
2007-08-15 08:12:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a lover of biographies and I highly recommend the Marilyn Monroe bio called Norma Jean. I also recommend anything by Spoto. He wrote about Barbra Streisand and many other actors, and they are really pretty good.
I also recommend these:
The Pusuit of Happyness (the book is actually better than the movie, which focuses only on one part of his life.)
Black Like Me (A white man actually dyes his skin darker to see how the Southern blacks and whites will treat him in the 50's.)
The Freedom Writers Club (A series of diary entries from students who are misrepresented and misunderstood in life. Very good read.)
The Love You Make (The story of the Beatles. It covers the early history of the group and the start of Yoko's reign over John, usually believed to be the beginning of the end of the group.)
Read about someone you are interested in, and read the cover description. If that sounds good, then open the book to the front, read the first to third page. Good, then check a page in the middle to read. Like that? Read a page in the back ten pages. YOu should have a good idea about the book then. Enjoy!
2007-08-15 08:07:08 · answer #3 · answered by just help ducky 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Holy Terror - about Andy Warhol was pretty interesting
Diane Vreeland (sp?) - don't remember the title but it was about her life
Such Devoted Sisters: Those Fabulous Gabors - was a pretty good read
I also read Mia Farrows auto and Bette Davis by her daughter I think. Both were really good.
There is a couple of books out there about a princess from Saudi Arabia. I can't remember her name or the title but she did a series of books with the help of an American (maybe English) writer. They were excellent and really helped me understand more about the mentality of people from the Middle East.
Joan Crawford was another very intersting read. Mommy Dearest and I think there was another one wrote about her by an outside party.
I like to go to the library and just randomly pick out autobiographys/biographies. Also if I am reading about one person I like to get a book about someone that was in their life and then go get a book about them.
2007-08-15 07:57:25 · answer #4 · answered by tmtkjr911@sbcglobal.net 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera; biography of Vincent Van Gogh by Julius Meier-Graefe.
2007-08-15 08:11:48 · answer #5 · answered by melisa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-10 07:12:05 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diary of Anne Frank
The Upstairs Room (Corrie ten Boom)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
2007-08-15 09:16:08 · answer #7 · answered by hiccup_snickup 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
T’S ALL ABOUT HIM, by Denise Jackson with Ellen Vaughn. (Thomas Nelson, $24.99.) The wife of the country music star Alan Jackson describes how religious faith re-stored her marriage.
LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) The only survivor of a Navy Seal operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle, his comrades and his courageous escape.
A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.
THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS, by Robert D. Novak. (Crown Forum, $29.95.) Reflections on 50 years as a Washington journalist.
THE DIANA CHRONICLES, by Tina Brown. (Doubleday, $27.50.) The Princess of Wales’s relationship with the royal family and her romance with the media.
PROMISES TO KEEP, by Joe Biden. (Random House, $25.95.) The Delaware senator and 2008 presidential candidate reflects on his personal background and political career.
Also:
EINSTEIN, by Walter Isaacson
THE REAGAN DIARIES, by Ronald Reagan, Edited by Douglas Brinkley (HarperCollins)
A MIGHTY HEART
by Mariane Pearl and Sarah Crichton
Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America by Philip Dray
2007-08-15 08:08:24 · answer #8 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Memory Babe about Jack Kerouac
City Poet about Frank O'Hara
2007-08-23 07:23:15 · answer #9 · answered by lew 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A child called it by David Pelzer and Papillon by Henri Charriere are both books i found hard to put down;)
2007-08-15 09:54:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋