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10 best books like Timebends: A Life (Arthur Miller): Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit, The Worst Witch at School, Charles Dickens, Advertisements for Myself, Grace: Secret Lives of a Princess, Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words, Cary Grant: A Biography, Blood Memory, Sixty Poems

Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit
AuthorBrigid O'Donoghue
ISBN1560778520
This book has been lying around my house for what seemed like ages and it was only today that I actually read it.

Honestly I was hesitant to read it mostly because it seemed like the annoying self-help book that seem to be dominating the lives of North American society. It was a self-help book and...
The Worst Witch at School
AuthorJill Murphy
ISBN0763634352
I loved my book so much.It was so funny.It was funny because of the things Mildred did.Like how she turned Ethel into a pig.It was so funny.I couldn't wait until I got to the next book.I loved it.I really enjoyed Mildred as a person too.Pg.22 and 23.
Someone who would like this book is someone who likes...
Charles Dickens
AuthorJane Smiley
ISBN0670030775
With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. As "his novels shaped his life as much...
Advertisements for Myself
AuthorNorman Mailer
ISBN0674005902
An essential guide to the life and work of one of America's most controversial writers, Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical...
Grace: Secret Lives of a Princess
AuthorJames Spada
ISBN0440201071
Published in 1987, five years after Grace Kelly's death, this book may have been more of a shocker than it is now. Up to her death, Kelly's image was of an ice princess with high morals. As this book revealed, the truth was otherwise, but it really is more of a 'whatever', as it seems the author wanted to make...
Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait
AuthorDiana Maychick
ISBN0806580003
When she began writing her biography of Audrey Hepburn, author Diana Maychick never dreamed she would have such unprecedented access to the reclusive and legendary star. Audrey Hepburn insisted that a proper biography could never be completed unless she was willing to share some intensely personal...
Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words
AuthorGeorge Barris
ISBN0806524537
No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, she was no ordinary screen goddess. Few really knew her. What others wrote, she called "Lies! Lies! Lies!"
Here, at last, is Marilyn Monroe's account, in her own singular voice....
Cary Grant: A Biography
AuthorMarc Eliot
ISBN0307209830
Rigorously researched and elegantly written, Cary Grant: A Biography is a complete, nuanced portrait of the greatest star in cinema history. Exploring Grant’s troubled childhood, ambiguous sexuality, and lifelong insecurities, as well as the magical amalgam of characteristics that allowed...
Blood Memory
AuthorMartha Graham
ISBN0333574419
this should be required reading for anyone who is seriously studying dance (especially dance history). martha graham is one of the most important people in dance history, and being able to peek into her mind is exhilarating. i felt like i was a kid listening outside a door to a very adult conversation--like...
Sixty Poems
AuthorCharles Simic
ISBN0156035642
‘A dog trying to write a poem on why he barks,
That’s me, dear reader!’

‘Comedy and tragedy are never far from one another,’ Charles Simic, former US Poet Laureate (2007-2008), says in a recent interview with Granta magazine, wonderfully highlighting the thin balance of bottom-of-a-bottle...
A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Brontë
AuthorKatherine Frank
ISBN0449906612
I always feel a certain amount of voyeuristic guilt in reading biographies, particularly those of private people. Any woman whose last words were "If you will send for a doctor, I will see him now." clearly knew what she wanted out of life, and what Emily Bronte wanted was to be left alone.

In the...
On Directing
AuthorHarold Clurman
ISBN0684826224
“A straightforward, tasteful, and articulate account of what it is to bring a play to palpitating life upon a stage” (The New York Times Book Review).

In this classic guide to directing, we are taken logically from the choice of the play right through ever aspect of its production to performances...
True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess
AuthorWendy Leigh
ISBN0312342365
This is the worst biography I have ever read and the most disappointing book I've read in a long time. Leigh seems obsessed with Grace's romantic life and spends more time trying to root out scandal than conveying meaningful information about Grace Kelly's personality and character. The writing was...
Elia Kazan: A Life
AuthorElia Kazan
ISBN0306808048
Elia Kazan's varied life and career is related here in his autobiography. He reveals his working relationships with his many collaborators, including Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, James Dean, John Steinbeck...
Confessions of an Actor
AuthorLaurence Olivier
ISBN0671417010
Added 9/29/13.

This book was very readable because Olivier seems to be talking directly to the reader. It was interesting getting his perspective of the theater world. He mentions the many classic plays he acted in, so many of which I had never even heard of. His interactions with the theater...
Unreliable Memoirs
AuthorClive James
I was one of those who suggested that our book club read this, in our elaborate democratic process of choosing books from the library group reading list, but once I started in I couldn’t stand it. Given encouragement from others who said they had laughed out loud reading it, I persisted, sort of, which...
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
AuthorGraham McCann
ISBN0231108850
Born in Bristol to a working class family as Archie Leach, Cary Grant rose to become an icon of cinema's Golden Age. He embodied the stylish, sophisticated gentleman, but set himself apart from others of that ilk by retaining a gentle sense of self-mocking humour, and his humble roots meant he never allowed...
Dear Me
AuthorPeter Ustinov
ISBN0749313110
Reading The Mystery of the Blue Train, Hercule Poirot led me to recall Peter Ustinov's autobiography - although I don't think he mentions playing him there, indeed the book strengthen the impression that he was a good raconteur who got in the lazy habit of appearing in indifferent films for easy money....
My Life in Art
AuthorKonstantin Stanislavski
ISBN1410216926
My Life In Art, Konstantin Stanislavski
My Life in Art is the autobiography of the Russian actor and theatre director Constantin Stanislavski. It is divided into Four sections entitled: Section One - Artistic Childhood. Section Two - Artistic Adolescence. Section Three - Artistic Youth. Section...
Johnny Depp: A Modern Rebel
AuthorBrian J. Robb
ISBN0859653854
Known for his quirky, edgy roles and smoldering good looks, Johnny Depp is one of Hollywood's most obsessively followed superstars. Although Depp has been making movies for over 20 years, he's clearly still in the prime of his career: his recent roles, in The Man Who Cried, Blow, and Charlie and the Chocolate...
Norman Mailer: A Double Life
AuthorJ. Michael Lennon
ISBN1439150192
From the biographer who knew Norman Mailer for decades comes the definitive, authorized portrait of the eminent novelist, journalist, and controversial public figure, based on extensive interviews and unpublished letters.

Norman Mailer was one of the giants of American letters and one...
Rewrites
AuthorNeil Simon
ISBN0684835622
Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, The Goodbye Girl, The Out-of-Towners, The Sunshine Boys -- Neil Simon's plays and movies have kept many millions of people laughing for almost four decades. Today he is recognized not only as the most successful American playwright of all time, but...
The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books
AuthorJohn Carey
Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship...
Manhattan '45
AuthorJan Morris
ISBN0801859573
In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel...
Harriette Wilson's Memoirs: The Greatest Courtesan of Her Age
AuthorHarriette Wilson
ISBN1842126326
19th century London produced a fine flowering of eccentrics and individualists. Chief among them was Harriette Wilson, whose patrons included most of the distinguished men of the day, from the Duke of Wellington to Lord Byron. She held court in a box at the opera, attended by statesmen, poets, national...
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