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What is your favorite autobiography or biography books?

>> No.20603980
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>>20603970
Autobiography of a Yogi

Influenced my life in numerous ways. I no longer am wandering aimlessly in my spiritual life.

>> No.20603983

Favorite Autobiography: The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali
Favorite Biography: The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson
Reading them in the order of Secret > Shameful is quite the trip. Dali's concept of "nonfiction" is not like most people's.

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>>20603970
memoirs of casanova

>> No.20604019

>>20603970
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (Lenny Bruce)
The Real Rearl (Pearl Bailey)
Valentino (Shulman)
Eleanor Marx
De Kooning: an American Master
Sleeping with the Enemy and The Allure of Chanel (about Coco Chanel by various people, the latter by Paul Morand)
Lady Sings the Blues (Holiday and some jew)
The Mint (TE Lawrence)
Hollywood Babylon (Anger)
The Pure and the Impure (Colette)

I've read biographies of more significant or historically impactful people but I prefer borderline gossip, esp. in the art/entertainment world from the 20s-50s

>> No.20604157

>>20603970
Butterflys in the typewriter- biography of john k toole jr

John adams by david McCullough

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

>> No.20605087

>>20603970
Stupid frogposter.

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>>20603970
Autocrat of the desert