The Biography Book Group will next meet on Wednesday, December 10 at 6PM. All are welcome.
MEETING POSTPONED UNTIL DECEMBER 17 at 6PM.
The Million Dollar Mermaid
Esther Williams
List of Biography Book Group books
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2025
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
Mark Kurlansky
Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black & White
Kitt Shapiro
Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World
Meredith F. Small
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty
2024
In Search of Mary Shelley:
The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
Fiona Sampson
Wandering Through Life: a Memoir
Donna Leon
The Wind At My Back : Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson
Misty Copeland
Ritz & Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef and The Rise of The Leisure Class
Luke Barr
Fat, Drunk & Stupid : The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House
Matty Simmons
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Curtis Chin
2023
The Widow Clicquot
Tilar J. Mazzeo
Queen Bess : Daredevil Aviator
Doris L. Rich
Fly Girl
Ann Hood
Betty Ford :
First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
Lisa McCubbin
The Only Woman in the Room : a Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
Beate Sirota Gordon
2022
Josephine Baker's Last Dance
Sherry Jones
Funny in Farsi
Firoozeh Dumas
Barbie and Ruth
Robin Gerber
Don't Make Me Pull Over!
Richard Ratay
From Scratch: a Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home
Tembi Locke
2021
2020
The Woman Who Says No
Malte Herwig
The Lady from the Black Lagoon
Mallory O'Meara
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
Hidden History of Detroit
Amy Elliott Bragg
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Lee Standiford
2019
Jane Austen's England
Roy A. Adkins
The True History of Tea
Victor H. Mair
Black Gun, Silver Star
Art T. Burton
Frontier Grit
Marianne Monson
Wally Funk's Race for Space
Sue Nelson
2018
Emily Post
Laura Claridge
Edith Head
David Chierichetti
The Perfect Scent
Chandler Burr
The Princess Bride
William Goldman
Shakespeare's Restless World
Neil MacGregor
2017
The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton
Diane Atkinson
Rita Moreno, A Memoir
Rita Moreno
The Fossil Hunter
Shelley Emling
Hildegard of Bingen
Fiona Maddocks
Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth
Shirley A. Leckie
Eighty Days
Matthew Goodman
2016
American Empress
Nancy Rubin Stuart
Hedy's Folly
Richard Rhodes