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After doing the morning's chores, Judy and I have lunch
and then go for our afternoon walk that includes a stop for coffee. When
we return home, the remainder of the afternoon is spent by the pool or in the
media room, where we
each curl up with our books. Sometime in February 2010, after becoming
frustrated by the process of choosing one book out of the 144,000 books at the library, I
decided on an easier way to make my book selections. The
A. K. Smiley Public Library has a wonderful "Biography" section located in the basement. The
books are sorted in alphabetical order by the last name of the subject. So, I started with "AAA," and
after I finish each book, I return to the stacks and move down to the next biography
that grabs my attention. As of this update, I am
up to "GAR."
Here's what I've read to date.
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Subject |
Title |
Author |
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Adams, Ansel |
An Autobiography |
Self |
|
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud |
The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader |
Kasra Naji |
|
Angelou, Maya |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Self |
|
Augustus |
The Life of Rome's First Emperor |
Anthony Everitt |
|
Baker, Josephine |
Josephine - The Hungry Heart |
Jean-Claude Baker & Chris Chase |
|
Ball, Lucille |
I Loved Lucy |
Lee Tannen |
|
Barbie, Klaus |
The Butcher of Lyon |
Brendan Murphy |
|
Barger, Sonny |
Hell's Angels |
Self |
|
Benedict XVI |
The Rise of Benedict XVI |
John L. Allen, Jr. |
|
Benny, Jack |
Sunday Nights at Seven |
Joan Benny |
|
Berra, Yogi |
Ten Rings - My Championship Seasons |
Self |
|
Bertinelli, Valerie |
Losing It, One Pound at a Time |
Self |
|
Billy the Kid |
The Endless Ride |
Michael Wallis |
|
bin Laden, Osama |
The Osama bin Laden I Know |
Peter L. Bergen |
|
Blair, Tony |
The Making of a World Leader |
Phillip Stephens |
|
Blanc, Mel |
That's Not All Folks! |
Self |
|
Bogart, Humphrey |
A Life in Hollywood |
Jeffrey Meyers |
|
Bolivar, Simon |
A Life |
John Lynch |
|
Boone, Daniel |
A Biography |
Robert Morgan |
|
Borman, Martin |
Aftermath |
Ladislas Farago |
|
Boyd, Pattie |
Wonderful Tonight |
Self |
|
Bradbury, Ray |
The Bradbury Chronicles |
Sam Weller |
|
Brando, Marlon |
An Unauthorized Biography |
Charles Higham |
|
Brinkley, David |
Brinkley's Beat |
Self |
|
Brokaw, Tom |
A Long Way from Home |
Self |
|
Brown, Helen Gurley |
I'm Wild Again! |
Self |
|
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett |
A Biography |
Margaret Forster |
|
Bruno, Giordano |
The Pope and the Heretic |
Michael White |
|
Bryan, William Jennings |
A Godly Hero |
Michael Kazin |
|
Buddha (Dalai Lama) |
Man - Monk - Mystic |
Mayank Chhaya |
|
Bundy, Ted |
The Stranger Beside Me |
Ann Rule |
|
Burbank, Luther |
A Gardner Touched with Genius |
Peter Dreyer |
|
Burns, Fritz B. |
F. B. Burns & the Development of
Los Angeles |
James Thomas Keane |
|
Burns, George |
The Hundred Year Dash |
Martin Gottfried |
|
Burr, Aaron |
Fallen Founder, The Life of Aaron
Burr |
Nancy Isenberg |
|
Burroughs, Edgar Rice |
Tarzan Forever |
John Taliaferro |
|
Bush, George H. W. |
My Father, My President |
Koch, Doro Bush |
|
Byron, Lord |
Byron, Life and Legend |
Fiona MacCarthy |
|
Caesar, Julius |
Caesar, Life of a Colossus |
Adrian Goldsworthy |
|
Calamity Jane |
The Woman and the Legend |
James D. McLaird |
|
Callas, Maria |
An Intimate Biography |
Anne Edwards |
|
Capote, Truman |
In Which Various Friends,
Enemies,....... |
George Plimpton |
|
Caravaggio |
M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio |
Peter Robb |
|
Carnegie, Andrew |
Andrew Carnegie |
David Nasaw |
|
Carney, Art |
Art Carney: A Biography |
Michael Seth Starr |
|
Carson Johnny |
Here's Johnny! |
Ed McMahon |
|
Carter, Jimmy |
From Plains to Postpresidency |
Peter G. Bourne |
|
Caruso, Enrico |
The Great Caruso, A Biography |
Michael Scott |
|
Cassatt, Mary |
Mary Cassatt: A Life |
Nancy Mowll Matthews |
|
Castro, Fidel |
The Real Fidel Castro |
Leycester Coltman |
|
Champlain, Samuel de |
Champlain's Dream |
David Hackett Fischer |
|
Chaplin, Charlie |
Chaplin: A Life |
Stephen Weissman, M.D. |
|
Charles, Prince |
The Prince of Wales: A Biography |
Jonathan Dimblely |
|
Chavez, Cesar |
The Fight in the Fields |
Susan Ferriss & Ricardo Sandoval |
|
Cheney, Dick |
Cheney: The Untold Story of
America's Most.... |
Stephen F. Hayes |
|
Chiang Kai-Shek |
China's Generalissimo and the
Nation He Lost |
Jonathon Fenby |
|
Child, Julia |
Appetite for Life |
Noel Riley Fitch |
|
Chopin, Fryderyk |
Pianist from Warsaw |
William G. Atwood |
|
Christie, Agatha |
The Woman and Her Mysteries |
Gillian Gill |
|
Churchill, Winston |
Churchill: A Biography |
Roy Jenkins |
|
Cicero |
The Life and Times of Rome's
Greatest Politician |
Anthony Everitt |
|
Cleopatra |
Last Queen of Egypt |
Joyce Tyldesley |
|
Clinton, Bill |
An American Journey: Great
Expectations |
Nigel Hamilton |
|
Cobb, Ty |
The Life & Times of the Meanest Man
Who .... |
Al Stump |
|
Cody, Buffalo Bill |
The Man Behind the Legend |
Robert A. Carter |
|
Coffman, Nellie Norton |
Nellie's Boardinghouse: Coffman &
Palm Springs |
Marjorie Belle Bright |
|
Collins, Judy |
Singing Lessons |
Self |
|
Columbus, Christopher |
Columbus |
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
|
Constantine |
Constantine |
Ramsey MacMullen |
|
Coolidge, Calvin |
Coolidge: An American Enigma |
Robert Sobel |
|
Coppola, Francis Ford |
A Filmmaker's Life |
Michael Schumacher |
|
Costello, Elvis |
Complicated Shadows: The Life &
Music of E.C. |
Graeme Thomson |
|
Crazy Horse |
The Journey of Crazy Horse: A
Lakota History |
Joseph M. Marshall III |
|
Crick, Francis |
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the
Genetic Code |
Matt Ridley |
|
Cromwell, Oliver |
Oliver Cromwell |
Peter Gaunt |
|
Curie, Marie |
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World
of Marie Curie |
Barbara Goldsmith |
|
Dalí,
Salvador |
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí |
Ian Gibson |
|
Dante Alighieri |
Dante |
R. W. B. Lewis |
|
Darrow, Clarence |
The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow |
Donald McRae |
|
Darwin, Charles |
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin |
David Quammen |
|
Davis, Bette |
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette
Davis |
Ed Sikov |
|
Davis, Sammy Jr. |
In Black and White: The Life of
Sammy Davis, Jr. |
Wil Haygood |
|
de Gaulle, Charles |
de Gaulle |
Julian Jackson |
|
Descartes, René |
Cogito, Ergo Sum |
Richard Watson |
|
Dickens, Charles |
Dickens: A Biography |
Fred Kaplan |
|
Dickinson, Emily |
The Life of Emily Dickinson: My
Wars are Laid... |
Alfred Habegger |
|
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan |
The Doctor and the Detective: A
Biography of ACD |
Martin Booth |
|
Dreyfus, Alfred |
The Dreyfus Case |
Alfred Dreyfus and Pierre Dreyfus |
|
Duncan, Isadora |
A Sensational Life |
Peter Kurth |
|
Earhart, Amelia |
The Sound of Wings: The Life of
Amelia Earhart |
Mary S. Lovell |
|
Eastwood, Clint |
American Rebel: The Life of Clint
Eastwood |
Marc Eliot |
|
Edison, Thomas Alva |
Inventing the Century |
Neil Baldwin |
|
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein: His Life and Universe |
Walter Isaacson |
|
Elijah Muhammad |
An Original Man: The Life and Times
of E.M. |
Claude Andrew Clegg III |
|
Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
The Mind on Fire |
Robert D. Richardson, Jr. |
|
Faraday, Michael |
A Life of Discovery: MF, Giant of
the Scientific Rev |
James Hamilton |
|
Faulkner, William |
One Matchless Time: A Life of
William Faulkner |
Jay Parini |
|
Fellini, Federico |
Federico Fellini: His Life and Work |
Tullio Kezich |
|
Fiedler, Arthur |
Arthur Fiedler: Papa, the Pops and
Me |
Johanna Fiedler |
|
Fields, W. C. |
W. C. Fields: A Biography |
James Curtis |
|
Fleming, Ian |
The Life of Ian Fleming |
John Pearson |
|
Ford, Henry |
The People's Tycoon HF and the
American Century |
Steven Watts |
|
Fosse, Bob |
All His Jazz: The Life and Death of
Bob Fosse |
Martin Gottfried |
|
Fossey, Dian |
Woman in the Mists |
Farley Mowat |
|
Francis of Assisi |
Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary
Life |
Adrian House |
|
Franco, Francisco |
Franco: A Concise Biography |
Gabrielle Ashford Hodges |
|
Franklin, Benjamin |
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life |
Walter Isaacson |
|
Freud, Sigmund |
Freud: Darkness in the Midst of
Vision |
Louis Breger |
|
Frost, Robert |
Robert Frost: A Life |
Jay Parini |
|
Galileo Galilei |
Galileo: A Life |
James Reston, Jr. |
|
Gandhi, Mahatma |
Gandhi's Passion: The Life and
Legacy of M. G. |
Stanley Wolpert |
|
Garcia, Jerry |
Garcia: An American Life |
Blair Jackson |
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Current Count = 112
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