What are your favorite nonfiction books or stories of real life people?
>Craig Vincent Smith (April 25, 1945 – March 16, 2012) was an American musician, songwriter and actor. He began his career in the 1960s playing pop and folk music and appearing on The Andy Williams Show. After experimenting with drugs while travelling on the hippie trail, he suffered mental health problems which worsened over time. He released two solo albums, Apache and Inca, in the early 1970s under the names Maitreya Kali and Satya Sai Maitreya Kali. After spending nearly three years in prison for assaulting his mother, he spent the majority of the next 35 years homeless.
Craig Smith is like if Brian Wilson went too hard on the drugs, disappeared to India and died homeless and alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Smith_(musician)
https://www.amazon.com/Swim-Through-Darkness-Mystery-Maitreya/dp/1934170658
David Sedaris is one of my favorite essayists in recent memory.