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Short Lives

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ

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

Lady sings the blues by Billie Holiday
Miss Leavitt's stars : the untold story of the woman who discovered how to measure the universe by George Johnson
Scoundrel time by Lillian Hellman
Abraham Lincoln by Thomas Keneally
I hate to leave this beautiful place by Howard A Norman
Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
My invented country : a nostalgic journey through Chile by Isabel Allende
An education by Lynn Barber
Surviving Hitler : a boy in the Nazi death camps by Andrea Warren
The authentic life of Billy the Kid by Pat F. Garrett
Saint Augustine by Garry Wills
On my own at 107 : reflections on life without Bessie by Sarah Louise Delany
George Washington by James MacGregor Burns
Chaucer by Peter Ackroyd
Mozart by Peter Gay
Edward R. Murrow and the birth of broadcast journalism by Bob Edwards
Joan of Arc : a Penguin life by Mary Gordon
Dwight D. Eisenhower by Tom Wicker
Defending Baltimore against enemy attack : a boyhood year during World War II by Charles Osgood
Too soon to say goodbye by Art Buchwald
Thérèse of Lisieux by Monica Furlong
An improvised life : a memoir by Alan Arkin
Outside looking in : adventures of an observer by Garry Wills

Prolific journalist, historian, political columnist, and practicing Catholic writes an intensely opinionated re-evaluation of leaders and celebrities he has encountered, among them Studs Terkel, Beverly Sills, William Buckley, Richard Nixon, and more.

Hank Greenberg : the hero who didn't want to be one by Mark Kurlansky