Memorize these and recognize 16.5% of all Biographies clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oscar Wilde | 4 | Michael Foldy examined "The Trials of" this author: "Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society" |
| 2 | Malcolm X | 4 | Chapters in his 1965 autobiography included "Harlemite", "Saved" & "Mecca" |
| 3 | Julia Child | 4 | Jennet Conant's "A Covert Affair" tells of this female chef's time in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA |
| 4 | Sam Houston | 3 | Marquis James' biography "The Raven" isn't about Edgar Allan Poe but about this flamboyant pres. of early Texas |
| 5 | Mathew Brady | 3 | "Illustrations of Camp Life" is a chapter title in a biography of this 19th century photographer |
| 6 | Katharine Hepburn | 3 | This actress' "Me: Stories Of My Life" was the bestselling nonfiction book of 1991 |
| 7 | Samuel Johnson | 3 | A 1791 book on the life of this Englishman is often considered the greatest biography ever written |
| 8 | Mark Twain | 3 | "Life on the Mississippi" |
| 9 | Marilyn Monroe | 3 | Norman Mailer wrote a biography of this screen goddess, & the 2 of them shared the July 16, 1973 cover of Time |
| 10 | Theodore Roosevelt | 2 | "Theodore Rex" tells the towering tale of this trust buster |
| 11 | Stephen King | 2 | In 2000 he published the not-so-scary "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" |
| 12 | Sheilah Graham | 2 | She wrote "Beloved Infidel" |
| 13 | Rocky Graziano | 2 | "Somebody Up There Likes Me" & its sequel, "Somebody Down Here Like Me, Too" |
| 14 | Nelson Mandela | 2 | The title of this South African's autobiography is "Long Walk to Freedom" |
| 15 | Lillian Gish | 2 | Hers was "The Movies, Mr. Griffith, & Me" |
| 16 | Lady Sings the Blues | 2 | In this 1956 autobiography, Billie Holiday wrote of her career & the hardships of her childhood |
| 17 | Kitty Kelley | 2 | The tables were turned on this biographer when she became the subject of the unauthorized book "Poison Pen" |
| 18 | Julia Ward Howe | 2 | Maude Howe Elliott won a Pulitzer Prize for co-authoring a book about this poet, her mother |
| 19 | John Paul Jones | 2 | A Revolutionary War figure: "Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy" |
| 20 | James Baldwin | 2 | "Talking at the Gates" is "A Life of" this "If Beale Street Could Talk" novelist |
| 21 | Gloria Vanderbilt | 2 | "Black Knight, White Knight" is the story of this heiress & her search for happiness |
| 22 | Fidel Castro | 2 | The first chapter of this Cuban leader's autobiography "My Life" says, "I made myself into a revolutionary" |
| 23 | Erle Stanley Gardner | 2 | "The Case of the Real Perry Mason" |
| 24 | Eleanor Roosevelt | 2 | In this first lady's autobiography, she tells of the time after her husband's death when she became a U.N. delegate |
| 25 | Eddie Fisher | 2 | "Eddie: My Life and Loves" |
| 26 | Corazon Aquino | 2 | 1987's "Cory: Profile of a President" is a biography of this leader of the Philippines |
| 27 | Claire Bloom | 2 | Ex-wife of Rod Steiger who wrote "Limelight & After: The Education of an Actress" |
| 28 | Charles Lindbergh | 2 | 1954's winner was this man's book "The Spirit of St. Louis" |
| 29 | Booker T. Washington | 2 | This Black educator published his autobiography under the title "Up From Slavery" |
| 30 | Benjamin Franklin | 2 | In 1791, one year after his death, part of this American's autobiography was published in Paris as "Memoires" |
| 31 | Arthur Miller | 2 | Central to his autobiography "Timebends" was his 4-year marriage to Marylin Monroe |
| 32 | American Sniper | 2 | Chris Kyle's memoir & basis for a film is subtitled "The Autobiography of the Most Lethal" this "in U.S. Military History" |
| 33 | Alexander Graham Bell | 2 | Helen Keller dedicated "The Story of My Life" to this man who "taught the deaf to speak" |
| 34 | (Grover) Cleveland | 2 | The first volume of Allan Nevins' 1933 biography of this president ended with his loss of the presidency in 1888 |
| 35 | (Alfred) Nobel | 2 | Hertha Pauli's 1942 biography of this man was subtitled "Dynamite King, Architect of Peace" |
| 36 | Harry S Truman | 2 | This president's memoirs are in 2 volumes, "Year of Decisions" & "Years of Trial and Hope" |
| 37 | Leon Trotsky | 2 | In 1930, after he was banished from the USSR, he wrote "My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography" |
| 38 | Samuel Morse | 2 | Carleton Mabee titled his book about this inventor & artist "The American Leonardo" |
| 39 | Mary Todd Lincoln | 2 | Carl Sandburg co-wrote a 1932 biography of this woman, "Wife and Widow" |
| 40 | Martin Luther | 2 | A religious leader: "Here I Stand" |
| 41 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 2 | Merle Miller's 1980 book "Lyndon" is "An Oral Biography" of this man |
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