What are some biographies that you personally enjoyed and would always recommend?
I recently finished reading about Catherine the Great and Pope Alexander VI. I prefer biographies of historical figures, but I am open to suggestions, as long as they are not US presidents or celebrities. Thanks
“Napoleon” by Vincent Cronin, best starting biography of Napoleon. Read it before seeing the movie.
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How do you feel about biographies about the siblings of US Presidents? “Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter” by Kate Clifford Larson was great.
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“Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote Scum (and Shot Andy Warhol)” by Brianne Fahs.
Fahs is an academic who specializes in manifestos. The book made me think about the role of mental illness and outsider-art. Fahs does a good job of curating Solanas’s writings, for people who don’t want to dive head-first into the writings of a traumatized person who doesn’t have a grip on reality. There’s this great tension between the seed of understandable rage, the manic passion of her writing, and her terrifying and random violence. It makes me look closer at the art homeless people in my city sometimes sell.
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“Napoleon” by Vincent Cronin, best starting biography of Napoleon. Read it before seeing the movie.
How do you feel about biographies about the siblings of US Presidents? “Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter” by Kate Clifford Larson was great.
“Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote Scum (and Shot Andy Warhol)” by Brianne Fahs.
Fahs is an academic who specializes in manifestos. The book made me think about the role of mental illness and outsider-art. Fahs does a good job of curating Solanas’s writings, for people who don’t want to dive head-first into the writings of a traumatized person who doesn’t have a grip on reality. There’s this great tension between the seed of understandable rage, the manic passion of her writing, and her terrifying and random violence. It makes me look closer at the art homeless people in my city sometimes sell.