Do You Read Biographies And Which Ones Are Your Favorites?

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I read the biography of Wyatt Earp recently and enjoyed it because of the time he lived in and the various life styles and careers he pursued as well as his family. Patton was good but not tops.
 

Yes I do, many of them, so I find it hard to pick favourites.

I like biographies from the sporting world, so John McEnroe's biography sticks in my mind, then popular culture, and a biography about Bob Marley, and another about Sidney Poitier.

However, by far the majority of the biographies I've read have been about political figures from Abraham Lincoln to Churchill and beyond.
 
A MAN OF HONOUR Joseph Bonnano The autobiography of a God Father, my favourite book of all time. written from the mouth of the authentic man of God Father status. All stones overturned no hold barred, its a new life, raucous factual (O so factual) brings that life right up to date)
 
My favourite was "Bermondsey Boy" , Tommy Steele's autobiography. My son gave me Sir Jackie Stewart's autobiography "Winning is not enough" at Christmas. It started off well, but became a bit "preachy" towards the end when seemed to lose sights of his beginnings and he started moving in super-rich circles.
 
Yes, I've read many historical books as well as those about movie stars. I'm finding less and less of them that interest me or ones I haven't read so I've switched over to some fiction which I find enjoyable. The books I won't read are about politics or sports figures. I also don't like books that mix fact and fiction. I don't see the point of that.
I'm always asking myself what part of this that I'm reading is really true?
 
As a kid, one of my favorite biographies was the life of "Chesty Puller", and "Crow Killer" (not sure if a biography but a great read), also the life of Albert Schweitzer, Alan Turing, Audie Murphy's "To Hell And Back",

Not a biography but a autobiography I have reread over the years is "With The Old Breed", "Blood Red Snow", "Two Years Before The Mast", Forgotten Soldier, Storm of Steel, Black Edelweiss, A Texas Cowboy or 15 Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
Loads more......

As a kid, I could not read good and got put in a special remedial class for reading in 2nd grade. The class worked as I learned to read better than most other kids and have been reading voraciously ever since.....Nothing like a good book to read.
 
Phil Specter. Music producer type. He had a string of hits in the 60s. "Be My Baby". "You Lost That Loving Feeling". Then he murdered a woman. The guy was a perfect slime ball. If you saw him on the street, you had to stop and check that you still had all your teeth.
 
Bennett Cerf, Judy Garland, Coco Chanel, and many more. Most, I read some time ago. Of course, the autobiography - The Diary of Anne Frank.

I read so much non-fiction, that I switched to more fiction.
 
I loved the autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, The Prime of Life, Force of Circumstance, in fact everything she wrote.
 
I read mostly nonfiction in many genres. Biographies would be my hero, Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and am STRANGELY attracted to Ulysses Grant! It started with a photo of him after the war. His EYES held more pain than I could bear! Imagine what this man saw and felt!
I have many books of the old West so Lawmen and outlaws are an interest. Biographies tell what happened in their lives but each man holds secrets he dare not share with anyone. The most important feelings are never told.
 
I've always loved them and can't say I have a favorite. The last book I read was on John Candy, Laughing Inside Out. The last audio book, which was about a week ago, was Inside Out by Demi Moore.
 
Charles Bukowski
His biographies and all his other stuff

'We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us'

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