Best biography books 2022
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Award Winning Biographies of
Biographies have come a long way from the days when they focused mainly on well-known political or artistic figures. Often, today’s most compelling biographies are about people we may have never have heard of, but whose life stories are so extraordinary they leave us humbled at what other human beings have been able to endure and achieve. Some of those biographies won prestigious prizes this year:
The National Book Critics Circle award for biography and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Of the prizes dedicated to biographies, it was a biography of Mildred Harnack that won both the National Book Critics Circle award for biography in as well as the Jacqueline Bograd Weld award, awarded by PEN America. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler is the powerful story of an American woman who fell in love with a German student at graduate school at UW–Madison and ended up marrying him and moving to Berlin just as Adolf Hitler was rising to power. Not only is it the life story of an extraordinary person, it’s also a fascinating picture of Berlin in the s (“the very first traffic light in Europe appeared here”). Needless to say, the story ends badly and Harn
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The Outrun Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of
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Memoir
1. We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole
(Liveright)
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