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Biography Reading List

NFic    Anderson, Christopher    Jackie After Jack: Portrait of 
                                 the Lady 
Atw     Atwood, Margaret         Alias Grace
NFic    Bell, Quentin            Virginia Woolf (2 Vol.)
Bow     Bowering, George         Burning Water (George Vancouver)
Bra     Braun, Matthew           Wyatt Earp
NFic    Bryson, Matthew          A Walk in the Woods
NFic    Colapinto, John          As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl
Cow     Cowell, Stephanie        The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare
Cro     Cross, Donna Woolfolk    Pope Joan
Din     Dinesen, Isak            Out of Africa
NFic    Forrester, Helen         Two Pence to Cross the Mersey
                                 (poverty/England)
NFic    Fossey, Dian             Gorillas in the Mist    
NFic    Frank, Katherine         A Chainless Soul:  
                                 A Life of Emily Bronte
Fre     Freedman, Benedic        Mrs. Mike (NW Mounted Police)
Geo     George, Margaret         The Memoirs of Cleopatra
NFic    Goodall, Jane            Africa In My Blood
NFic    Goodwin, Doris Kearns    No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor
NFic    Gordeeva, Ekaterina      My Sergei (skater)
Gul     Gulland, Sandra          The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of
                                 Josephine B. (Bonaparte)
NFic    Haas, Albert             The Doctor and the Damned (Holocaust)
NFic    Harrer, Heinrich         Seven Years in Tibet
NFic    Kershaw, Ian             Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris
NFic    King, Stephen            On Writing: a Memoir of the Craft
NFic    Krakauer, Jon            Into the Wild
NFic    Manchester, William      The Last Lion (Winston Churchill 2 Vol.)
NFic    McCourt, Frank           Angela's Ashes (poverty/Ireland)
NFic    McCourt, Frank           'Tis
Max     Maxwell, Robin           The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn
NFic    Pelzer, David            A Child Called "It"
NFic    Pelzer, David            A Man Named Dave
NFic    Rees-Jones, Trevor       A Body Guard's Story
NFic    Sajer, Guy               The Forgotten Soldier (WW II)
NFic    Simonds, Merilyn         The Convict Lover
Sto     Stone, Irving            The Agony and the Ecstacy
                                 (life of  Michelangelo)
Tan     Tannahill, Reay          Fatal Majesty:  the Drama of
                                 Mary Queen of Scots 
NFic    Wyden, Peter             Stella (Nazi collaborationist)

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