I think it is very cool what @TotallyHumanWriter started this week over in ~the_stacker_muse with UnPhiltered, and it got me thinking more about the autobiography as a genre.
Looking for recommendationsLooking 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)
1,100 sats paid 2 times
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.
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
"A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy
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:
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.
Apologies for missing that you were looking for autobiographies specifically. I haven't read many of them
The Wings of Fire by APJ Abdul Kalam.
And
My Father Experiments with the Truth by Mahatma Gandhi.