/lit/, what biographies are worth a read?
The Education of Henry Adams
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Really good one
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casanova
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my diary, desu
Speak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov
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This desu.
The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler
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Hamilton, Chernow
The Wright Brothers (can't remember, but it was published recently)
The mega biography of Melville by Herschel is good and makes people think you're smart when they see it on the shelf.
Thomas Bernhard
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Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman, Oscar Wilde (Ellmann), Papillon, Gods Graves & Scholars, Miles, Leo Africanus, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Rimbaud, Memories of Silk and Straw