A review of Top 10 Biographies
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Do you like reading other people's stories? Then check out Booklist's latest top 10 list of biographies.They includes singers, artists, scientists, playwrights, and activists. Are there any biographies that you would add to the list?
- Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend by Jackie Kay. 2021.
- Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens. 2022.
- Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus by Maia Weinstock. 2022.
- Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley by Tomiko Brown-Nagin. 2022.
- Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age by Betsy Prioleau. 2022.
- His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa. 2022.
- Lorraine Hansberry: The Life behind A Raisin in the Sun by Charles J. Shields. 2022.
- Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature by Richard Rhodes. 2021.
- Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain. 2021.
- White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret by A. J. Baime. 2022.