Looking for recommendations

Therefore, I'm offering 1100 sats for comments that either:

recommend an autobiography that aligns with my tastes (hint: read my posts),
or recommend an autobiography and make a strong enough case for me to read it.
or link to another post that reviews a qualifying autobiography (e.g. #1246044)

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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 6h

"A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy

1100 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 9h

Regina’s Closet: Finding My Grandmother’s Secret Journal (Diana Raab)

It mixes the grandmother's memory (a life marked by the WWI, immigration, etc.) with the author's life.

I highly recommend it.

1100 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 11h

you could read Just an Old Country Boy by me

part of it is biography on my grandpa (but in a first person, fiction-like tone) part of it is memoir about reflecting on faith and family

it's not very long, I'd be curious what you would think

110 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 11h

At one point I started a habit of reading so-called one-hour or short biographies - biographies in book form that could be read in an evening.

I didn't keep the habit very long, but of those that I read, I enjoyed:

Abraham Lincoln by James M. McPherson
It's All in Your Head by Russ which is part Memoir and part self-help

All told I've read maybe 10 biographies. Of the long ones, I most enjoyed Steve Jobs by Isaacson. I got a quarter of the way through Titan many years ago, which I found enjoyable, but it contained more minutia than I tend to like.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 11h

Apologies for missing that you were looking for autobiographies specifically. I haven't read many of them

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 10h

The Wings of Fire by APJ Abdul Kalam. And My Father Experiments with the Truth by Mahatma Gandhi.