Thanks for your comments on the Fiction list. George Bernard Shaw said, "People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them."
I bring to this list of biographies and memoirs a life-time of reading about great men and women and several years of teaching people how to write their spiritual memoirs.
BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS
Ackroyd, Peter. DICKENS
Bragg, Rick. ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN'--a look at what made a famous journalist
Delaney, Sarah and Elizabeth. HAVING OUR SAY--among the first black women professionals, they share their 100 years of living.
Dillard, Annie. AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD--I love comparing her 50's childhood with mine--so different!
Edelman, Marian Wright. LANTERNS--her account of the people who made her the accomplished lobbyist she is (Definitely one of my heroes)
Haley, Alex. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X--The account of how Malcolm X learned to read and write in prison bears sharing with all students who do not understand the value of an education
McCullough, David. JOHN ADAMS
TRUMAN (Not the movie, Harry S)
L'Engle, Madeliene. THE SUMMER OF MY GREATGRANDMOTHER--should be read by all who have aging relatives
Lindbergh, Anne. GIFT FROM THE SEA--This visit to the sea has inspired thousands
Lindbergh, Reeve NO MORE WORDS--Anne's daughter recounts the last days of her mother
West, Michael. CONSUMING PASSIONS--the story of an eccentric family told through their recipes.
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