Literary biographies

100.
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography 4.15 avg rating — 124 ratings
102.
Shakespeare
Shakespeare 3.86 avg rating — 429 ratings
103.
Shakespeare
Shakespeare 4.16 avg rating — 684 ratings
103.
Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932 3.93 avg rating — 13,250 ratings
105.
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature 4.07 avg rating — 2,173 ratings
105.
Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Volume 1: The Poetry of Desire, 1749-1790
Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Volume 1: The Poetry of Desire, 1749-1790 4.42 avg rating — 33 ratings
107.
Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography 3.91 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
108.
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human 4.03 avg rating — 3,666 ratings
108.
Isabelle: The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt
Isabelle: The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt 3.90 avg rating — 108 ratings
110.
The Life of Thomas More
The Life of Thomas More 4.02 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
110.
Shakespeare of London
Shakespeare of London 4.02 avg rating — 174 ratings
110.
The Prime of Life: The Second Volume of Her Autobiography
The Prime of Life: The Second Volume of Her Autobiography 4.18 avg rating — 2,021 ratings
113.
All Rivers Run to the Sea
All Rivers Run to the Sea 4.12 avg rating — 1,308 ratings
113.
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath 4.57 avg rating — 4,352 ratings
115.
Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley
Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
115.
George Eliot: The Last Victorian
George Eliot: The Last Victorian 4.03 avg rating — 339 ratings
117.
Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier 4.04 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
118.
Flaws in the glass: A self-portrait
Flaws in the glass: A self-portrait 4.02 avg rating — 130 ratings
119.
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 4.33 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
120.
Jane Austen: A Life
Jane Austen: A Life 3.70 avg rating — 4,405 ratings
120.
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice 3.64 avg rating — 877 ratings
120.
A Very Easy Death
A Very Easy Death 4.05 avg rating — 13,267 ratings
123.
Aké: The Years of Childhood
Aké: The Years of Childhood 3.86 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
124.
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay 3.91 avg rating — 9,507 ratings
125.
Red Azalea
Red Azalea 3.84 avg rating — 10,639 ratings
126.
The Family Idiot 1: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857
The Family Idiot 1: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings
127.
The Brontës
The Brontës 3.98 avg rating — 5,238 ratings
127.
Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir
Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir 4.11 avg rating — 834 ratings
129.
Muriel Spark: The Biography
Muriel Spark: The Biography 3.87 avg rating — 175 ratings
129.
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston 4.36 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
131.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 4.17 avg rating — 8,067 ratings
132.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o Las trampas de la fe
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o Las trampas de la fe 4.25 avg rating — 812 ratings
132.
Madame de Stäel
Madame de Stäel 4.24 avg rating — 149 ratings
134.
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World 4.14 avg rating — 352 ratings
134.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Confessions of an English Opium Eater 3.28 avg rating — 10,821 ratings
136.
A Writer's Diary 1873-1881
A Writer's Diary 1873-1881 3.72 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
137.
Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power
Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power 3.47 avg rating — 160 ratings
138.
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs 4.16 avg rating — 1,896 ratings
139.
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood 4.10 avg rating — 6,047 ratings
140.
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books 4.03 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
141.
Byron in Love
Byron in Love 3.40 avg rating — 743 ratings
142.
Lit
Lit
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating — 27,991 ratings
143.
Stop-Time
Stop-Time 3.93 avg rating — 2,496 ratings
143.
Thomas Mann: A Biography
Thomas Mann: A Biography 3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings
145.
Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
146.
Tagebücher 1918 - 1955
Tagebücher 1918 - 1955 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
147.
The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War 4.07 avg rating — 218 ratings
148.
Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul
Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul 3.84 avg rating — 299 ratings
149.
The Master
The Master 3.84 avg rating — 11,581 ratings
150.
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg 3.93 avg rating — 2,518 ratings
151.
Ivy: The Life of I. Compton Burnett
Ivy: The Life of I. Compton Burnett really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
152.
John Steinbeck, Writer
John Steinbeck, Writer 4.21 avg rating — 274 ratings
153.
Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work
Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work 4.16 avg rating — 125 ratings
154.
Jorge Luis Borges: A Literary Biography
Jorge Luis Borges: A Literary Biography 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
155.
The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood 3.75 avg rating — 1,642 ratings
156.
The Intimate Journal
The Intimate Journal 3.76 avg rating — 107 ratings
157.
My Several Worlds
My Several Worlds 4.16 avg rating — 819 ratings
158.
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 4.06 avg rating — 4,410 ratings
159.
Straight on Till Morning: the Biography of Beryl Markham
Straight on Till Morning: the Biography of Beryl Markham 4.15 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
160.
Patrick White: A Life
Patrick White: A Life 4.49 avg rating — 235 ratings
160.
George Sand: A Biography
George Sand: A Biography 4.11 avg rating — 57 ratings
160.
Ghetto Medic: A Father in the 'Hood
Ghetto Medic: A Father in the 'Hood 3.55 avg rating — 129 ratings
160.
William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked
William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked 3.91 avg rating — 46 ratings
160.
Audubon: The Dream That Wouldn't Die
Audubon: The Dream That Wouldn't Die 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
160.
Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima (NONE)
Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima (NONE) 4.17 avg rating — 76 ratings
160.
Tolstoy: Bir Rus Hayatı
Tolstoy: Bir Rus Hayatı 4.17 avg rating — 751 ratings
160.
A Widow's Story
A Widow's Story 3.75 avg rating — 4,174 ratings
160.
Mark and Livy
Mark and Livy 4.02 avg rating — 45 ratings
160.
My Reading Life
My Reading Life 3.95 avg rating — 8,190 ratings
160.
Time Without Clocks
Time Without Clocks 3.72 avg rating — 61 ratings
160.
A Girl from Yamhill
A Girl from Yamhill 4.02 avg rating — 4,471 ratings
160.
The Paris Husband: How It Really Was Between Ernest and Hadley Hemingway
The Paris Husband: How It Really Was Between Ernest and Hadley Hemingway 3.58 avg rating — 103 ratings
160.
Walt Whitman's Diary: A Summer in Canada, 1880
Walt Whitman's Diary: A Summer in Canada, 1880 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
160.
Marilyn Monroe ja Arthur Miller
Marilyn Monroe ja Arthur Miller 3.31 avg rating — 42 ratings
160.
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years 4.33 avg rating — 540 ratings
160.
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction 4.06 avg rating — 4,280 ratings
160.
Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie 3.91 avg rating — 14,856 ratings
178.
What's to Become of the Boy? Or, Something to Do with Books
What's to Become of the Boy? Or, Something to Do with Books 3.33 avg rating — 517 ratings
178.
Mordecai: The Life & Times
Mordecai: The Life & Times 4.16 avg rating — 131 ratings
178.
James Dickey: The World as a Lie
James Dickey: The World as a Lie 3.79 avg rating — 53 ratings
178.
Memoirs of an Aesthete
Memoirs of an Aesthete 3.69 avg rating — 52 ratings
178.
The Family Idiot 2: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857
The Family Idiot 2: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
178.
Hide-and-Seek with Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie
Hide-and-Seek with Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie 3.88 avg rating — 104 ratings
178.
Oona ja Salinger
Oona ja Salinger 3.97 avg rating — 3,181 ratings
178.
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years 4.36 avg rating — 317 ratings
178.
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning 4.22 avg rating — 8,554 ratings
187.
Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography
Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography
by: Jill Roe
4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
187.
Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon
Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon 3.40 avg rating — 88 ratings
187.
William Faulkner: American Writer: A Biography
William Faulkner: American Writer: A Biography 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings
187.
The Family Idiot 3: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-57
The Family Idiot 3: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-57 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
187.
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon 4.11 avg rating — 71 ratings
187.
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter 3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings
187.
Zelda und F. Scott Fitzgerald: ein amerikanischer Traum
Zelda und F. Scott Fitzgerald: ein amerikanischer Traum 3.51 avg rating — 68 ratings
187.
Celine: A Biography
Celine: A Biography 4.27 avg rating — 79 ratings
187.
Giving Up the Ghost
Giving Up the Ghost 3.95 avg rating — 4,823 ratings
196.
Mother Ireland: A Memoir
Mother Ireland: A Memoir 3.61 avg rating — 330 ratings
196.
Peeling the Onion
Peeling the Onion 3.86 avg rating — 2,112 ratings
196.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway 4.14 avg rating — 892 ratings
196.
Creating Colette: From Ingenue to Libertine 1873-1913
Creating Colette: From Ingenue to Libertine 1873-1913 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
196.
George Orwell: The Authorised Biography
George Orwell: The Authorised Biography 4.18 avg rating — 296 ratings
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