ITT: post top tier biographies and auto-biographies

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>>9899564

>>9899564
my dairy, desu

>>9899569
A man's spoiled milk tells much about his spoiled life.

A Beautiful Mind

I think I'm going to make a general introduction to biography chart in the next few days. After that maybe specialize it into things like political, athletic and literary biographies, among others.

The Confessions of St. Augustine

>>9899564
The universe is the autobiography of God.

>>9899727
woah..

>>9899564
Morrissey's autobiography
Luis Buñuel's autobiography
Jean Renoir's biography about his daddy

>>9899692
nice ill keep an eye out for it.

>>9899692
Please do, been wishing for one for a while.

Miles Davis' autobiography and Akira Kurosawa's Something Like An Autobiography genuinely deserve a place on there.

I know it wouldn't be popular on /lit/ with the /pol/tards, but Malcolm X's Autobiography is pretty important too.

A sub-category for biographical novels like Knausgaard's My Struggle or Spiegelman's Maus could be interesting too but I'm getting ahead of myself really.

>>9900114
Eh Malcolm X's autobiography is important from a historical and learning perspective regardless of what you think of him personally.
You should really stop with the whole le /pol/ boogeyman though, it really reflects poorly on you.

>>9899564

This >>9899698


Also I liked Ron Chernow's Titan (about John D Rockefeller).

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inb4 speak memory
cozy but not top tier

pic related is great

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contains rare stalins

>>9899568
My Ex wanted to read that book for some reason. Probably because she heard it was good from some professor she was pineing for. Wonder if it actually has merit. What did you think anon?

I think Rousseau's Confessions are amazing if you can get into his style of writing.

There's one I can't remember about a parasite, which you'd probably enjoy if I can find it somewhere on the web.

>>9901338
Sorry anon but everytime I discuss or reccommend it, people tell me to stop reading nigger books, no exaggeration. It may reflect poorly on me to generalise a board for the actions of few but it reflects badly on this board when people disregard literature based on colour.

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>>9899564

>>9899564
because you posted chef pepe, im saying the apprentice by jacques pepin. pepin is god along with child.

>>9899692
you do that, reddit

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>>9899564
Both are objectively some of the finest works of literature of all time.

>>9902675
Not anon addressed, but Boswell's great. Read his comparitively short London Journal to get a feel for him and to determine whether or not (you) want to commit to the Johnson bio.
Regardless, it's the first modern style biography in English, and truly a work apart.

>>9899564
Leon Edel's Henry James is fantastic, almost a book of wisdom, and worth the effort whether youre able to appreciate his subject, or not.

>>9899564
Theoretically Cellini's autobiography is about the life and times of a well known Renaissance artist. In fact, however, it concerns the mischiefs perpetrated by what today we term a serial killer. Totally bats, far more interesting than I thought it could be..

>>9903133
I know youre memeing but why would a youtuber need a biography? Isn't there entire life found online

>>9901398
based Benjamin Franklin

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Say what you will about Lincoln but the man in his time had incredibly rare leadership skills

Despite being the underdog repub candidate he got elected then went on to fill his cabinet with members from both parties, especially the other republican candidates he just beat

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I read this in about a week. It was very fascinating. I didn't pay too much attention to her when she was alive, so I didn't know all of the drama.