Biography Archives

Bob Dylan [1] - Two hundred and twenty reviews into this venture, and not one about Bob Dylan. What does that tell you? It might suggest that the proprietor of

Branch Rickey, Jimmy Breslin [2] - On the morning before John F.

Broken: A Love Story, Lisa Jones [3] - It's two for one in "Broken: A Love Story" --- biography and autobiography merge in the dusty horse corrals of Wyoming's Wind River Reservat

Bunker Spreckels: Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence, C.R. Stecyk III [4] - Bunker Spreckels: Surfing's Divine Prince of Decade

Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin, Myra Friedman [5] - Everybody knows about Janis Joplin.

Camus, A Romance, Elizabeth Hawes [6] - On January 4, 1960 --- exactly fifty years ago --- Albert Camus had a train ticket to Paris in his pocket.

Charlatan, Pope Brock [7] - Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the M

Churchill, Paul Johnson [8] - Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, both good and evil, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity, and also the most likab

Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake, Trevor Dann [9] - Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake Trevor Dann Friends said that Nick Drake's music “brushes the ear.

Diane Arbus, Patricia Bosworth [10] - We reeled out of the Diana Arbus show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art into the blissful order of the Renaissance art rooms. You would have too.

Dora Lives: The Authorized Story of Miki Dora, C.R Stecyk III and Drew Campion [11] - There must be something in the water. I’ve just praised the “bad” boys who made great movies at Paramount Pictures in the late &lsqu

Everybody Was So Young, Amanda Vaill [12] - Zelda Fitzgerald, after a painful life, suffered a terrible death --- she was a patient at the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carol

Forty Ways to Look at JFK, Gretchen Rubin [13] - Who does this sound like? He was an indifferent student.

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation, Sheila Weller [14] - 525 pages about Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon --- and this is the beach book for smart boomer women? I'm not kidding.

How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living, Karen Karbo [15] - Anybody feel the need to know one thing more about Georgia O’Keefe? How about Coco Chanel? And, while we’re at it, let&rsquo

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: An Autobiography in Books [16] - In 1986, I wrote a cover story for New York magazine called “The Working Rich: The Real Slaves of New York." My focus was on Carolyne Roehm

Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman, Patricia Bosworth [17] - Google “Jane Fonda +hate site” and you get 10 million results. In contrast, "Sarah Palin +hate site" gets 109 million.

Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas, Tom Callahan [18] - His father died when he was five, leaving behind a hard-pressed family and a coal-delivery business.

Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice, Elias Canetti [19] - “Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K.

Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life And Times of Doc Pomus, Alex Halberstadt [20] - He was short and stubby. He’d had polio at 9; he couldn’t walk without braces and crutches.

Links:
[1] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/bob-dylan
[2] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/brach-rickey
[3] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/broken-love-story
[4] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/bunker-spreckels-surfings-divine-prince-decadence
[5] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/buried-alive-biography-janis-joplin
[6] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/camus-romance
[7] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/charlatan
[8] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/churchill
[9] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/darker-deepest-sea-search-nick-drake
[10] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/patricia-bosworth
[11] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/dora-lives-authorized-story-miki-dora
[12] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/everybody-was-so-young
[13] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/forty-ways-look-jfk
[14] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/girls-us
[15] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/how-georgia-became-okeeffe-lessons-art-living
[16] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-autobiography-books
[17] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/jane-fonda-private-life-public-woman
[18] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/johnny-u-life-and-times-john-unitas
[19] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/kafkas-other-trial
[20] http://www.headbutler.com/books/biography/lonely-avenue-unlikely-life-and-times-doc-pomus
[21] http://www.headbutler.com/archives/books/biography?page=1