Good Biographies

Thread: Good Biographies

  1.  Jabberwock said: December 31, 2009 03:32 AM

    Default Good Biographies

    I'm looking for some good biographies to read. Biographies that are fairly fun and insightful. Not a college course text book. It could be on anybody or someone you feel others should read up on.

    I just finished reading Thomas Jefferson: Author of America by Christopher Hitchens
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    Maximinus Thrax said: December 31, 2009 04:25 AM

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    Heinrich Mann's two novels about the life of Henri IV, king of France: The Youth of Henri IV and Henri, king of France - among my favourite historical novels

    Golo Mann (Heinrich's nephew) - Wallenstein. A little hard to read though.

    Stefan Zweig - Fouche, Marie Antoinette, Erasmus of Rotterdam

    Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography - a great artist of the Renaissance in his own words
    Last edited by Maximinus Thrax; December 31, 2009 at 04:27 AM.