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More Short Lives

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ

Enjoy these short but fascinating biographies which come in under 200 pages.

Lots of candles, plenty of cake by Anna Quindlen

Bestselling author Anna Quindlen writes about her life and the lives of women today, looking back and ahead-- and celebrating it all-- as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all that stuff in our closets, and more.

Elvis Presley by Bobbie Ann Mason
Fragments : memories of a wartime childhood by Binjamin Wilkomirski
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
Black like me by John Howard Griffin
James A. Garfield by Ira M Rutkow
Winston Churchill by John Keegan
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
A year by the sea : thoughts of an unfinished woman by Joan Anderson
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
James Madison by Garry Wills
Napoleon by Paul Johnson
The grace of silence : a memoir by Michele Norris
Julia Child by Laura Shapiro
No more words : a journal of my mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Reeve Lindbergh
John Quincy Adams by Robert V. Remini
Brian Piccolo : a short season by Jeannie Morris
The heartbreak of Aaron Burr by H. W Brands

An engaging and intimate portrait of the controversial early American politician Aaron Burr.

African queen : the real life of the Hottentot Venus by Rachel Holmes
The protest singer : an intimate portrait of Pete Seeger by Alec Wilkinson
Claiming kin : confronting the history of an African American family by Afi Scruggs
About Alice by Calvin Trillin
Betty White : the first 90 years by Andrew E Stoner