The Power Broker
1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro
biographies
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For
American Prometheus
Biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2005. Twenty-five years in the making, the book was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Biography of English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969 autobiography describing the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou
Desert Solitaire
Autobiographical work by American writer Edward Abbey, originally published in 1968