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Topic: 2015 Biography Challenge--LISTS ONLY
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Here is the Biography list for 2015. Included are categories suggested by other readers. I hope the categories are broad enough to accommodate all reading tastes. If not, remember you can always make Free Choice substitutions. Let's all have fun assembling our lists! Super Challenge = All categories (15 categories) Regular Challenge = 12 categories Lite Challenge = 6 categories Any category may be replaced by a "Free Choice"
1. Someone from your state 2. Someone from China 3. A criminal 4. A poet 5. A military hero 6. An author 7. A Middle Eastern person 8. An immigrant's story 9. Diary, letters, or journal format 10. Autobiography 11. Someone involved in a scandal 12. Entertainer 13. Sports figure 14. Inventor or founder or captain of industry 15. Free Choice |
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Super Challenge = All categories (15 categories) Regular Challenge = 12 categories Lite Challenge = 6 categories Any category may be replaced by a "Free Choice"
1. Someone from your state--Write it When I'm Gone by Thomas M. DeFrank (Gerald R. Ford) 2. Someone from China--Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling 3. A criminal--In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 4. A poet--Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon (Emily Dickinson) 5. A military hero--The Last Lion, Vol. 1 by William Manchester (Churchill) 6. An author--A Time to Dance by Rumer Godden and A House with Four Rooms by Rumer Godden (Rumer Godden's memoirs) 7. A Middle Eastern person--House of Stone by Anthony Shadid (Memoir of Shadid Family) 8. An immigrant's story--The Family by David Laskin (Story of author's family) 9. Diary, letters, or journal format--After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery's Letters to Ephraim Weber, 1916-1941 10. Autobiography--The Ear of the Heart by Dolores Hart 11. Someone involved in a scandal--Wild Romance by Chloe Schama (Theresa Longworth Yelverton) 12. Entertainer--Shirley Temple: American Princess by Anne Edwards (Completed 1/26/15) 13. Sports figure 14. Inventor or founder or captain of industry 15. Free Choice Last Edited on: 1/27/15 2:45 PM ET - Total times edited: 5 |
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Last Edited on: 2/8/15 4:05 AM ET - Total times edited: 7 |
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I have memoirs and bios on my shelves ready to read! Here's my motivation for the Lite Challenge, at least. Super Challenge = All categories (15 categories) Regular Challenge = 12 categories Lite Challenge = 6 categories Any category may be replaced by a "Free Choice" 1. Someone from your state The Outermost House - Henry Beston 2. Someone from China Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah 3. A criminal Free Choice -The Hare with Amber Eyes = Edmund de Waal 4. A poet Free Choice - Book of Ages The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin - Jill Lepore 5/14 5. A military hero Free Choice - Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life - Karen Maezen Miller 6/20 6. An author Virginia Woolf - Hermione Lee 7. A Middle Eastern person Reading Lolita in Teheran - Azar Nafisi 8. An immigrant's story An Area of Darkness - V. S. Naipaul 9. Diary, letters, or journal format 10. Autobiography The Year of Reading Proust - Phyllis Rose 11. Someone involved in a scandal - Free Choice My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell 12. Entertainer Life in Motion; An Unlikely Ballerina - Misty Copeland 13. Sports figure Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown 1/21 14. Inventor or founder or captain of industry 15. Free Choice Pioneer Girl - Laura Ingalls Wilder & Pamela Smith Hill 4/29 Last Edited on: 6/16/15 11:37 PM ET - Total times edited: 6 |
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I'll be doing the traditional challenge. These are my choices: 1. someone from your state--Ring/A Biography of Ring Lardner (Jonathan Yardley) 2. a criminal--The Unicorn's Secret (Steven Levy) 3. a poet--Selected Letters of Theodore Roethke (ed. Ralph J. Mills, Jr.) 4. a military hero--Life and Times of Anne Bailey (Virgil A. Lewis) 5. an author--Dreiser (W.A. Wanberg) 6. a Middle Eastern Person--I Am Malaya (Malaya Yousafzai with Christina Lamb) 7. an immigrant's story--May Sarton (Agnes Sibley) 8. diary--The Red Leather Diary (Lily Koppel) 9. autobiography--Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov) 10. someone involved in a scandal--Louise Brooks (Barry Paris) 11. entertainer--How Can I Keep from Singing?/The Ballad of Pete Seeger (David King Dunaway) 12. free choice--Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer) I must comment that compiling this list was a major challenge in itself! Rose |
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Love this one Mary1!! "I hope the categories are broad enough to accommodate all reading tastes. If not, remember you can always make Free Choice substitutions." 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Last Edited on: 9/26/15 9:19 AM ET - Total times edited: 61 |
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Here is the Biography list for 2015. Included are categories suggested by other readers. I hope the categories are broad enough to accommodate all reading tastes. If not, remember you can always make Free Choice substitutions. Let's all have fun assembling our lists! Super Challenge = All categories (15 categories) Regular Challenge = 12 categories Lite Challenge = 6 categories Any category may be replaced by a "Free Choice"
1. Someone from your state 2. Someone from China 3. A criminal With Badges & Bullets: Lawmen & Outlaws in the Old West edited by Richard W Etulain and Glenda Riley 3/2/15 4. A poet 5. A military hero 6. An author In Character by John Mortimer 4/18/15 7. A Middle Eastern person 8. An immigrant's story The World in My Kitchen: The Adventures of a (Mostly) French Woman in New York by Colette Rossant 2/4/15 9. Diary, letters, or journal format 10. Autobiography 11. Someone involved in a scandal Shut Up He Explained The Memoir of a Blacklisted Kid by Kate Lardner 6/7/15 12. Entertainer 13. Sports figure 14. Inventor or founder or captain of industry 15. Free Choice What I Saw in America by G K Chesterton 4/09/15 Last Edited on: 6/8/15 12:19 AM ET - Total times edited: 6 |
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1. Someone from your state 2. Someone from China 3. A criminal Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson Author: Jeff Guinn 4. A poet 5. A military hero 6. An author 7. A Middle Eastern person 8. An immigrant's story 9. Diary, letters, or journal format 10. Autobiography 11. Someone involved in a scandal 12. Entertainer Love Life Author: Rob Lowe 13. Sports figure 14. Inventor or founder or captain of industry 15. Free Choice
Last Edited on: 2/22/15 7:42 PM ET - Total times edited: 2 |
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Super Challenge = All categories (15 categories) Regular Challenge = 12 categories Lite Challenge = 6 categories Any category may be replaced by a "Free Choice"
1. Someone from your state 2. Someone from China 3. A criminal 4. A poet 5. A military hero 6. An author 7. A Middle Eastern person 8. An immigrant's story 9. Diary, letters, or journal format 10. Autobiography 11. Someone involved in a scandal 12. Entertainer 13. Sports figure 14. Inventor or founder or captain of industry 15. Free Choice |
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1. Someone from your state Vantage Point by Lyndon B Johnson 2. Someone from China 3. A criminal The Spy's Son by Bryan Denson 4. A poet 5. A military hero Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend by James Robertson 6. An author Tennessee Williams: A Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr 7. A Middle Eastern person Reading Lolita in Teheran - Azar Nafisi 8. An immigrant's story 9. Diary, letters, or journal format A Diary from Dixie - Mary Boykin Chesnut 10. Autobiography The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant by Ulysses S Grant 11. Someone involved in a scandal Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford 12. Entertainer 13. Sports figure The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown 14. Inventor or founder or captain of industry 15. Free Choice Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand Last Edited on: 1/11/15 1:53 PM ET - Total times edited: 5 |
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Here is the Biography list for 2015. Included are categories suggested by other readers. I hope the categories are broad enough to accommodate all reading tastes. If not, remember you can always make Free Choice substitutions. Let's all have fun assembling our lists! Super Challenge = All categories (15 categories) Regular Challenge = 12 categories Lite Challenge = 6 categories Any category may be replaced by a "Free Choice"
1. Someone from your state Benjamin Franklin: His Life and Times by Walter Isaacson Finished 2/20 4 stars 2. Someone from China 3. A criminal 4. A poet 5. A military hero 6. An author 7. A Middle Eastern person 8. An immigrant's story 9. Diary, letters, or journal format 10. Autobiography 11. Someone involved in a scandal 12. Entertainer 13. Sports figure 14. Inventor or founder or captain of industry 15. Free Choice Last Edited on: 2/21/15 8:39 AM ET - Total times edited: 6 |
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