The Best Biographies/Autobiographies of 2023

Posted: December 19th, 2023 | No Comments »

My favourites, in no particular order…

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life – Anna Funder (Penguin)

Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era – Laurence Learner (Hodder & Stoughton)

Cinema Speculation – Quentin Tarantino (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets – Burkhard Bilger (William Collins)

A Waiter in Paris – Edward Chisholm (Monoray)

A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History – Edward Wilson-Lee – (William Collins)

The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World – Pico Iyer (Bloomsbury Circus)

Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader – Mrk Bowden – (Grove Press)

Kiki Man-Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris – Mark Braude (Two Roads)

The World According to Joan Didion – Evelyn McDonnell (Fourth Estate)

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