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King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis
Shawn Levy
St. Martin's Press, 1997
The Lives of Buddy Love
+ An encyclopedia in story form
+ The Day The Clown Cried
+ Compulsively readable, very detailed and fair
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Chronicles, Volume 1
Bob Dylan
Simon & Schuster, 2004
Not a Tell-All But Definitely a Work of Art
+ Not like Writing Lyrics
+ Smoke gets in your eyes
+ Also waiting for Volume 2
+ Waiting for Vol. 2...
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Chuck Berry: The Autobiography
Chuck Berry
Random House Value Publishing, 1989
Genius of rock
+ SOME KIND OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY INDEED
+ Hail ! Hail ! Rock and Roll.
This book gives a glimpse into the complicated mind of a true one of a kind musician.
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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet
Eugene Walter
Crown, 2001
Just like talking to Eugene.
+ Live! Live! Live!
+ Gore Vidal calls Eugene Walter the "nice" Truman Capote
+ Being there
+ Milking the Memories
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Miles
Miles Davis
Simon & Schuster, 1990
Miles
+ amazing !
+ a long bunch of Miles
+ essential Jazz history
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The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
Donald Spoto
Da Capo Press, 1999
A fascinating insight into the enigma
+ Undeservedly Excoriated
+ The Champ
+ Extremely informative, interesting
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Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
Bernard Eisenschitz
Faber & Faber, 1993
Great book on a great director
+ Thorough examination of American auteur director
I actually attempted to contact Mr. Eisenschitz to thank him for delivering this book going as far as contacting his publisher. I go back to this book over and over as it contains a wealth of information about the great man Nicholas Ray. If you haven't read this, get it now. Also, get Ray's book I ...
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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
Justin Kaplan
Simon & Schuster, 1991
Never a Better Twain Shall Meet
+ Ultimate Twain biography.
+ Samuel Clemens Unveiled
+ A split personality!
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
Peter Guralnick
Back Bay Books, 1995
Be one with Elvis
+ EXCELLANT
+ Last Train To Memphis
+ Wow! There is so much in this book, it's hard to describe.
+ Not the man I thought he was
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James Joyce (Oxford Lives)
Richard Ellmann
Oxford University Press, USA, 1983
A Classic Biography
+ Simply Extraordinary
+ Brilliant
+ Best biography in English language in 20th century
+ When Irish Eyes Exile
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Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams
Nick Tosches
Delta, 1999
Dino, just didnt care
+ An honest look
+ Sad but fascinating
+ Gold from Dreck
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
Peter Gay
W. W. Norton & Company, 1998
Excellent Work
+ very well-done
+ Absolute Classic
+ Freud still makes a difference
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Shelley: The Pursuit (New York Review Books)
NYRB Classics, 2003
Monumental and all-inclusive
+ Unacknowledged legislators
+ Interesting; valuable; dated
+ The superlative Shelley biography
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John Clare: A Biography
Jonathan Bate
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
Fabulous Portrait
+ A Very Fine Biography of Clare
+ Absolutely Great
+ Fab
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Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (Twentieth Century Classics)
Edmund Gosse
Penguin Classics, 1989
A justly celebrated memoir of the Victorian age
+ An endearingly human work
+ A Natural Conflict
+ An ex-exclusive brethren perspective
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