Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
10 best books like Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (Sam Tanenhaus): Go Forward with Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley, Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, E. M. Forster: A Life, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, As I Have Loved You, Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography, Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love, Lost Star: The Story of Amelia Earheart, Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend, Anaïs Nin: A Biography
Go Forward with Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley
| Author | Sheri Dew |
| ISBN | 1573451657 |
The subject of the biography is not what is just OK, I really like Gordon B Hinckley; what I didn't care for was the biography. Pres. Hinckley just does stuff, but we gain no insight into the man; we don't know what makes him tick; we don't see his struggles and his decisions; we don't delve into what processes...
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
| Author | Noor Al-Hussein |
| ISBN | 1401359485 |
Leap of Faith is the dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman's remarkable journey into the heart of a man and his nation.
Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privilege, Lisa Halaby joined the first freshman class at Princeton to accept women, graduating...
| Author | P.N. Furbank |
| ISBN | 0156286513 |
I’ve owned this two-in-one volume for years and finally opened it after Jasmine's wonderful essay-review of Maurice had me thinking of Forster’s probable loneliness. Reading this made me feel better about that aspect of his life: yes, there was much (mostly physical) loneliness in his life,...
| Author | Virginia Spencer Carr |
| ISBN | 0820325228 |
The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented,...
| Author | Kitty De Ruyter |
| ISBN | 1591560659 |
First of all, it should be noted that the audio is really a "fireside talk" and not the same as the book.
On a second reading, I have to give this five stars... absolutely wonderful and amazing story. It is hard to find such Christlike examples outside of the scriptures and Jesus Christ himself....
| Author | Deirdre Bair |
| ISBN | 0671741802 |
This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional...
| Author | Yehuda Koren |
| ISBN | 0786718617 |
The failure of the marriage between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been considered from one of two conflicting viewpoints: hers or his. Missing for more than four decades has been a third perspective on the events that brought their marriage to its ill-fated end, the story of another—the other—woman:...
| Author | Patricia Lauber |
| ISBN | 0590411594 |
دائماً علينا ان نقيّم الكتب بناءاً على قناعاتنا، لا قناعات الآخرين، عندما افتتحت الكتيب انجذبت لأول صفحة فيه، وعندما وجدت في الصفحات اللاحقة كثافة المعلومات...
| Author | Gary L. Roberts |
| ISBN | 0471262919 |
"You can't beat this story for drama. . . . An omnibus of everything ever known, spoken, or written about Doc Holliday."
-Publishers Weekly
"An engagingly written, persuasively argued, solidly documented work of scholarship that will surely take its place in the literature of the Old...
| Author | Deirdre Bair |
| ISBN | 0140255257 |
Arguably the world's most famous diarist, Anaïs Nin drew much of her acclaim from her shocking accounts of artistic and sexual self-exploration within the avant-garde worlds of Paris, New York, and Hollywood. But who was this woman whose peccadilloes led to relationships of bigamy and incest, who...
No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| Author | Reeve Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0743203143 |
In 1999 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the famed aviator and author, moved from her home in Connecticut to the farm in Vermont where her daughter, Reeve, and Reeve's family live. Mrs. Lindbergh was in her nineties and had been rendered nearly speechless years earlier by a series of small strokes that also left...
| Author | A. Scott Berg |
| ISBN | 0425170411 |
This is a most compelling story of a most significant life; the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott Berg, this is at once Lindbergh the hero--and Lindbergh the man.
Awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for...
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
| Author | Candice Millard |
| ISBN | 0804194890 |
From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War
At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime...
