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GREAT AND SIGNIFICANT BOOKS IN BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
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GREAT AND SIGNIFICANT BOOKS IN BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
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| RICHARD HENRY DANA |
ANNE FRANK
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Good Reading began puplication in 1947 and in 1990 issued the 23rd edition of the work. The purpose of Good Reading: is "to lead an increasing number of people to savor the great or significant books, both those that strive to light the dark places in our understanding of our complex world and our equally complex selves, and those that aim simply to delight." The following list of books in biography and autobiography is from Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers (22nd ed., 1985) and was compiled by Philip Roddman of Pratt Institute.
| James Ackerman | Palladio. 1966 |
| Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams. 1905 |
| Gay Wilson Allen | The Solitary Singer. 1955 (Walt Whitman) |
| Gay Wilson Allen | Waldo Emerson. 1981 |
| Angus Armitage | TheWorld of Copernicus. 1947 |
| John James Audubon | The Eighteen Twenty-Six Journal. 1967 |
| Carlos Baker | Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. 1969 |
| Imamu Amiri Baraka | The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones. 1984 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | All Said and Done. 1974 (Beauvoir) |
| Quentin Bell | Virginia Woolf. 1972 |
| Isaiah Berlin | Karl Marx. 4th ed. 1978 |
| Hector Berlioz | Memoirs of Hector Berlioz. 1969 |
| Robert Blake | Disraeli. 1966 |
| Joseph Leo Blotner | Faulkner. 1974 |
| Catherine Drinker Bowen | Yankee from Olympus. 1944 (Oliver Wendell Holmes) |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton | Saint Thomas Aquinas. 1933 |
| Eve Curie | Madame Curie. 1937 |
| David Daiches | Moses. 1975 |
| Richard Henry Dana | Two Years Before the Mast. 1840 (Dana) |
| Charles Darwin | The Voyage of the Beagle. 1840 |
| Eugene Delacroix | Journals. Repr. 1969 |
| Thomas De Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater. 1822 |
| William Edward B. Du Bois | Autobiography. 1968 |
| Leon Edel | Henry James. 5 vols. 1953-72 |
| Anne Frank | Diary of a Young Girl. 1952 |
| Philipp Frank | Einstein. 1947 |
| Douglas Southall Freeman | R.E. Lee. 1935 |
| Richard henry Goldstone | Thornton Wilder. 1975 |
| Shirley Graham & George Lipscomb | Dr. George Washington Carver. 1944 |
| Robert Gutman | Richard Wagner. 1968 |
| Dag Hammarskjold | Markings. 1964 (Hammarskjold) |
| Charles Hession | John Maynard Keynes. 1984 |
| Charles Higham | The Adventures of Conan Doyle. 1976 |
| Wolfgang Hildesheimer | Mozart. 1977 |
| Andrew Hodges | Alan Turing: The Enigma. 1983 |
| William Innes Homer | Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde. 1977 |
| Jane Howard | Margaret Mead. 1984 |
| John Dixon Hunt | The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin. 1982 |
| Christopher Isherwood | Christopher and His Kind. 1976 |
| Pope John XXIII | Jounal of a Soul. 1963 |
| Edgar Johnson | Charles Dickens. 1952 |
| Ernest Jones | The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. 1953-57 |
| Justin Kaplan | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. 1966 |
| Frederick Robert Karl | Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives. 1979 |
| Helen Keller | The Story of My Life. 1903 |
| Coretta Scott King | My Life With Martin Luther Kink, Jr. |
| Paul Klee | The Diaries of Paul Klee. 1964 |
| Gilbert Lely | Marquis de Sade. 1962 |
| Julien Levy | Memoir of an Art Gallery, 1977 |
| F.S.L. Lyons | Charles Stewart Parnell. 1977 |
| Salvador De Madariaga | Christopher Columbus. 1967 |
| Malcolm X | The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 1964 |
| Leslie Marchand | Byron. 1957 |
| Andre Maurois | Lelia: The Life of George Sand. 1977 |
| Andre Maurois | Prometheus: The Life of Balzac. 1966 |
| Ved Mehta | Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles. 1976 |
| Thomas Merton | The Seven Story Mountain. 1948 |
| John Stewart Mill | Autobiography. 1873 |
| Edwin H. Miller | Melville. 1975 |
| Arthur Mizener | The Far Side of Paradise. 1951 (F. Scott Fitzgerald) |
| Ruth E. Moore | Niels Bohr. 1966 |
| Charles H. Morgan | The Life of Michelangelo. 1960 |
| K.M. Elisabeth Murray | Caught in the Web of Words. 1977 (James Augustus Henry Murray) |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Speak, Memory. 1966 |
| John Henry Newman | Apologia pro Vita Sua. 1864 |
| George Painter | Marcel Proust. 1959-65 |
| Ernst Pawel | The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka. 1984 |
| Roland Penrose | Picasso: His Life and Work. 1981 |
| Regine Pernoud | Joan of Arc. 1969 |
| Simone Petrement | Simone Weil. 1976 |
| Jacob Riis | The Making of an American. 1901 |
| Maxine Rodinson | Muhammad. 1971 |
| Ernest Samuels | Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur. 1979 |
| George Santayana | Persons and Places. 1944-53 |
| S. Schoenbaum | William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life. 1975 |
| Albert Schweitzer | Out of My Life and Thought. 1933 |
| Louis Sheaffer | O'Neill: Son and Playwright.1968 |
| Maynard Solomon | Beethoven. 1977 |
| Francis Steegmuller | Cocteau. 1970 |
| Lincoln Steffens | Autobiography. 1931 |
| Gertrude Stein | The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokas. 1933 |
| Lytton Strachey | Queen Victoria. 1921 |
| W.A. Swanberg | Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist. 1976 |
| Lawrence Thompson | Robert Frost. 1976-77 |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden. 1854 |
| Leon Trosky | Lenin: Notes for a Biography. 1925 |
| Henri Troyat | Tolstoy. 1967 |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Dear Theo. 1937 |
| Aileen Ward | John Keats. 1963 |
| Booker T. Washington | Up From Slavery. 1901 |
| Joseph Wechsberg | Verdi. 1974 |
| Edmund Wilson | The Twenties. 1976 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Autobiography. 1943 |
| Richard Wright | Black Boy. 1945 |
| William Butler Yeats | Autobiography. 1936 |
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