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How do you find the perfect subject for a biography? “Pick a real bitch, or real bastard, and make sure they're dead,” a famous biographer once told Elizabeth Taylor. The author, critic and chair of the National Book Critics' Circle biography committee talks us through the books that made their 2020 shortlist. Interview by Cal Flyn, Deputy. The most critically-acclaimed books of 2020, in the categories of (deep breath): Memoir & Biography, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Short Story Collections, Essay. How do you find the perfect subject for a biography? “Pick a real bitch, or real bastard, and make sure they're dead,” a famous biographer once told Elizabeth Taylor. The author, critic and chair of the National Book Critics' Circle biography committee talks us through the books that made their 2020 shortlist. Interview by Cal Flyn, Deputy.
Discover the 9 best biographies of 2020 from celebrities, entrepreneurs, journalists, poets and more including Alex Trebek, Malcom X. Wilkerson argues, persuasively, that Americans are mired in an outdated and dangerous hierarchy system that goes even deeper than race and class. The silver lining: It’s not too late for meaningful change. The 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards have three rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members.
Best biographies 2019
Wilkerson argues, persuasively, that Americans are mired in an outdated and dangerous hierarchy system that goes even deeper than race and class. The silver lining: It’s not too late for meaningful change. The 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards have three rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members.
Best biographies 2021
Hugely anticipated around the globe, A Promised Land delivers with a surprisingly intimate look back at Obama’s historic journey from young community organizer to 44th president of the United States—the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office. Hail to the chief. Biography for kids
These are TIME’s 100 most influential pioneers, leaders, titans, artists and icons of 2020. What is a biography of a person
Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive, Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights, Craig Brown’s 150 Glimpses of the Beatles, and Heather Clark’s Red Comet all feature among the best reviewed memoirs and biographies of 2020. Biographies of famous people
Discover the 9 best biographies of 2020 from celebrities, entrepreneurs, journalists, poets and more including Alex Trebek, Malcom X, Glennon Doyle, David Chang, Sunny Hostin, Sylvia Plath, Natasha Trethewey, John Steinbeck and Audre Lorde. Biography examples
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR. THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD. by Kent Garrett & Jeanne Ellsworth A fine contribution to the literature of civil rights and the African American experience. Full review >.