 | Lovely Me by Barbara Seaman
Buy new: $12.78 / Used from: $1.19 Jacqueline Susann really did live the life of the women in her books. I loved this book - it was very interesting and hard to put down.
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 | Rough Magic: A Biography Of Sylvia Path by Paul Alexander
Buy new: $14.43 / Used from: $6.67 One of many biographies on Sylvia. I've read several, but I like this one the best.
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 | Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $1.26 Very informative. I don't know if it's from personal experience with mental illness, but after reading this I found that I really dislike Anne Sexton.
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 | Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.99 This was a tad bit dry, but wonderfully written. She turns out to be rather unsympathetic, but an interesting person nonetheless. There's a lot of subtle women's history in this biography.
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 | Thing of Beauty by Stephen Fried
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.75 Rather sad read ...
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 | Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 You can't help but become a bit infuriated for Susanna while reading this book.
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 | Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.50 This was actually pretty dry and a slow read ... but the story I knew had to be there kept me reading ...
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 | Just Desserts - Martha Stewart: The Unauthorized Biography by Jerry Oppenheimer
Buy used from: $0.01 I'm really not that much of a fan of Martha's but I loved this biography! It was so much fun to read and hard to put down.
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 | Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 by Mary Beth Norton
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $4.23 It is amazing what these women did ...
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 | The Plantation Mistress by Catherine Clinton
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.75 A very informative look at the woman of the plantation - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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 | Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 by Isak Dinesen
Buy used from: $0.32 Isak Dinesen is truly a woman to be admired.
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 | Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
Buy new: $12.47 / Used from: $4.21 I'm not much of a science person, but this was a wonderful read - very inspiring.
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 | Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda Lear
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $10.11 This was a splendid biography! It was chock full of detail.
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 | Up Close: Rachel Carson by Ellen S. Levine
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is a short and sweet biography ... definitely sparks more detailed interest in her life.
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 | Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood by Julie Gregory
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $3.78 This is a very disturbing book ...
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 | Courtney Love: The Real Story by Poppy Z. Brite
Buy used from: $0.01 I knew I would like this biography when I read in Poppy's introduction that she didn't even like Courtney Love as a person.
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