People I Wish I Had Known
Gere Branch BooksTalk, February 4, 2008
Pam B.
Items in this list are autobiographies unless another author is listed. A few items discussed in this booktalk are not currently owned by Lincoln City Libraries (and are therefore not hotlinked in this booklist), but may be available through our Inter-Library Loan service.
Persons Known Through Biographies or Autobiographies
Willa Cather
Willa: The Life of Willa Cather
by Phyllis G. Robinson [B C279r]
Jill Kerr Conway
The Road From Coorain [B C764]
True North [B C764]
A Woman's Education [B C764]
Richard Feynman (as told to Ralph Lighton)
Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman [B F435]
What Do YOU Care What Other People Think? [B F435]
George Macdonald Fraser
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma
The General Danced at Dawn and Other Stories [fiction]
McAuslan in the Rough and Other Stories [fiction]
Lillian & Frank Gilbraith
Cheaper By the Dozen [B G374c2]
Belles on Their Toes [B G375g]
Helene Hanff
84 Charing Cross road [818 Han]
Duchess of Bloomsbury [914.21 Han]
Underfoot in Show Business [B H1907]
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
by Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper [B L576g]
Margaret Mead
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years [B M457]
Ralph Moody
Little Britches [B M7714l]
Gerald Moore
Am I Playing Too Loud?
Furthermore: Interludes in an Accompanist's Life [Music 786.2 Moo]
John Forbes Nast
A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar [B N172n]
Kathleen Norris
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography [271.1 Nor]
Cloister Walk [978.3 Nor]
Barbara Pym
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters
edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym [B P995]
Anna Russell
I'm Not Making This Up
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
by Blanche Wiesen Cook [B R664c]
Victoria Sackville-West
Vita
by Victoria Glendenning [B Sa06y]
Leo Slezak
What Time the Next Swan?
by Walter Slezak as told to Smith-Corona Model 88E
John Snow
The Ghost Map
by Steve Johnson [616.932 Joh]
Grace Snyder
No Time on My Hands
as told to Nellie Snyder Yost [B Sn9]
Persons Known Through Their Writing
Jane Austen
There are many biographies but I haven't particularly cared for any of them!
Jared Diamond
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed [304.28 Dia]
Guns, Germs and Steel [303.4 Dia]
Stephen Jay Gould
Flamingo's Smile [574 Gou]
Mismeasure of Man [153.9 Gou]
The Panda's Thumb [574 Gou]
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