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Position:Home>Books & Authors> What are some interesting people to read about?Question: What are some interesting people to read about!? I have conquered about all of the non fiction section in my library and need more ideas on interesting people (from newscasters to historical figures of any kind) to read about for fun!. Last bio I read was on Howard Hughes, before that was Mike Wallace!. So, you get the idea!. It has to be non fiction and about a person and interesting (Anderson Coopers book was actually the best I have read)!. It can be by that person or about them!. I'm just out of ideas!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Studs Terkel has a series of fascinating oral histories in which he picks a topic and then interviews a quantity of people, both famous and unknown, about their views on, and relationship to, it!. He's very good at drawing people out and has no agenda of his own, beyond the subjects which he chooses!. His titles include; The Good War, Hard Times, Working, and Race, among others!. http://www!.amazon!.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b!?url=!.!.!. I really cannot recommend these books highly enough!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Well me personally, I find serial killers bio books the best and most brutally honest -which is the best honesty!. Nothing like entering the mind of a homicidal maniac!. I found " Helter Skelter" to be very good!. The book itself was not scary in he least but for some reason i was haunted almost every night in my dreams my Charles Manson!. Its his mind- or well!.!. how his mind is portrayed that completly had a hold on me!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Read about Merle Oberon--really interesting!. She was an actress of Indian descent who was ashamed of it and passed off her mother as her servant!.Www@QuestionHome@Com frank zappa's autobiography is an excellent read also, midnight in the garden of good and evil is another excellent readWww@QuestionHome@Com some of the non-fictions ive read are david sedaris: naked augusten burroughs: running with scissors james frey: a million little pieces, my friend leonard frank mccourt: angelas ashes Www@QuestionHome@Com I loved the first of Shelley Winters autobiographies!. also, someone just gave me an autobiography by Tab Hunter!. haven't read it yet, but I hear it's very good :)Www@QuestionHome@Com Confessions of a Morphine Fiend by Alister Crowley!. This guy is a trip, to say the least!. A self anointed Anti-Christ/Wizard/Drug addict/Con man all wrapped into one!.Www@QuestionHome@Com A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown Cupcake Brown is her real name!.!.I loved this memoir!.!.!.she had a tough life growing up and then became a lawyer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I hear the Johnny Cash autobiography is very good!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |