Trinity College Booklist (1951): Class Six, Biography

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Bolivar and the independence of Spanish America
by J. B. Trend
35 members
½ 3.5
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, AlfJ
2
Eminent Victorians
by Lytton Strachey
1,944 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
3
An Autobiography
by Anthony Trollope
638 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
4
His Eye Is on the Sparrow: an Autobiography by Ethel Waters
by Ethel Waters
186 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
5
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
6,228 members
73 reviews
4.2
6
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
5,987 members
64 reviews
3.9
7
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
5,888 members
73 reviews
4
8
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
5,060 members
44 reviews
4
10
Wind, Sand and Stars
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3,787 members
70 reviews
4.1
11
The Confessions
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3,576 members
31 reviews
½ 3.5
12
The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
3,091 members
47 reviews
3.8
13
Ten Days that Shook the World
by John Reed
2,863 members
43 reviews
3.9
14
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Benvenuto Cellini
2,831 members
29 reviews
3.9
15
The Story of San Michele
by Axel Munthe
1,043 members
15 reviews
4.2
16
Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey
1,042 members
8 reviews
3.8
17
Flight to Arras
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,040 members
30 reviews
3.8
18
Brave Men
by Ernie Pyle
943 members
20 reviews
4.2
19
Twenty Years at Hull-House
by Jane Addams
914 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
20
Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
by John Stuart Mill
841 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
21
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
by Samuel Eliot Morison
824 members
6 reviews
4
22
Eastern Approaches
by Fitzroy Maclean
823 members
20 reviews
4.1
23
Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography
by Albert Schweitzer
797 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
24
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
by Edmund Gosse
794 members
12 reviews
4.1
25
The Wall
by John Hersey
747 members
5 reviews
4.2
26
Shakespeare of London
by Marchette Chute
638 members
8 reviews
3.9
27
Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz
by Olga Lengyel
569 members
18 reviews
½ 4.3
28
The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln
by Glückel of Hameln
475 members
7 reviews
4
29
St. Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen
by William Mitchell Ramsay
475 members
1 review
½ 3.3
30
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (4 vol. set)
by Carl Sandburg
468 members
6 reviews
4.2
31
Lord Chesterfield's Letters
by Lord Chesterfield
460 members
1 review
½ 3.7
32
Far Away and Long Ago
by W. H. Hudson
327 members
11 reviews
4
33
Jews Without Money
by Michael Gold
320 members
6 reviews
3.9
34
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
by Robert E. Sherwood
299 members
2 reviews
3.8
35
A Russian Gentleman
by Sergei Aksakov
297 members
1 review
3.8
36
Turkish Embassy Letters
by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
295 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
37
The Promised Land
by Mary Antin
295 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
38
Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
by William Butler Yeats
275 members
2 reviews
3.9
39
They Were Expendable
by W. L. White
274 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
40
The Jungle is Neutral
by F. Spencer Chapman
268 members
6 reviews
4.1
41
My Life in Art
by Constantin Stanislavski
262 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
42
The Book of My Life
by Girolamo Cardano
254 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
43
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
by Lincoln Steffens
215 members
2 reviews
4
44
Letters of Madame de Sévigné
by Madame de Sévigné
207 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
45
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author
by Edward John Trelawny
188 members
½ 4.7
46
Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters
by Anton Chekhov
181 members
½ 4.6
47
A Son of the Middle Border
by Hamlin Garland
171 members
5 reviews
3.9
48
Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
by Franz Mehring
167 members
1 review
4.1
50
The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
by Hans Christian Andersen
146 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
51
Memoirs of a Georgian Rake
by William Hickey
133 members
2 reviews
4
52
Great Morning
by Osbert Sitwell
131 members
½ 3.6
53
The Scarlet Tree
by Osbert Sitwell
129 members
½ 3.4
54
Lone Cowboy: My Life Story
by Will James
124 members
2 reviews
4.2
55
Laughter in the Next Room
by Osbert Sitwell
124 members
1 review
½ 3.3
56
Left Hand, Right Hand!
by Osbert Sitwell
124 members
1 review
3.1
57
Everybody's Pepys
by Samuel Pepys
120 members
3 reviews
4
58
Mohammed: The Man and His Faith
by Tor Andræ
119 members
1 review
½ 4.3
59
The Cruise of the Nona
by Hilaire Belloc
116 members
1 review
½ 3.3
60
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, 1825-32: Volumes 1-2
by Sir Walter Scott
112 members
½ 4.4
61
Tamerlane: Conqueror of the Earth
by Harold Lamb
104 members
4 reviews
4
62
Life of St. Francis of Assisi
by Paul Sabatier
102 members
3 reviews
2.8
63
Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American
by Thomas Jefferson
99 members
1 review
½ 3.7
64
Margaret Ogilvy
by J. M. Barrie
96 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
65
The Life of John Marshall (4-volume set)
by Albert J. Beveridge
94 members
3
66
Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw : a correspondence
by Ellen Terry
89 members
4
67
A Russian Schoolboy
by Sergei Aksakov
87 members
1 review
3.8
69
Pushkin
by Henri Troyat
85 members
½ 4.5
70
Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
by J. G. Lockhart
76 members
1 review
3
71
Years of Childhood
by Sergei Aksakov
73 members
1 review
½ 3.5
72
My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen (Complete)
by Aleksandr Herzen
73 members
½ 3.3
73
My Apprenticeship
by Beatrice Webb
64 members
1 review
½ 3.5
74
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858
by Albert J. Beveridge
63 members
½ 3.5
75
Smoke over Birkenau
by Seweryna Szmaglewska
59 members
½ 4.4
76
Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures
by Albert Bigelow Paine
55 members
1 review
½ 4.3
77
Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings
by Carl Van Doren
52 members
½ 4.3
78
The Letters of Mozart and His Family
by Emily Anderson
49 members
1 review
4.1
79
From Immigrant to Inventor
by Michael Pupin
48 members
½ 3.7
82
The autobiography of Leigh Hunt
by Leigh Hunt
41 members
4
83
The life of Richard Wagner
by Ernest Newman
40 members
1 review
½ 4.3
85
Peculiar People: The Story of My Life
by Augustus Hare
35 members
1 review
½ 3.5
86
Danton
by Hilaire Belloc
32 members
87
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay
by Fanny Burney
30 members
2 reviews
4
88
Robespierre
by Hilaire Belloc
30 members
1 review
3
89
Men and Memories: A History of the Arts, 1872-1922
by William Rothenstein
29 members
1
90
Barnum
by M. R. Werner
29 members
91
Letters of Horace Walpole
by Horace Walpole
28 members
3
92
The life of John Sterling
by Thomas Carlyle
27 members
4
93
God and My Father
by Clarence Day
26 members
4
94
Schliemann: The Story of a Goldseeker
by Emil Ludwig
26 members
1 review
½ 3.3
95
The Early History of Charles James Fox
by George Otto Trevelyan
26 members
1 review
½ 2.3
96
Selected Letters of William Cowper
by William Cowper
25 members
97
The Letters of Charles Lamb
by Charles Lamb
24 members
98
Interview with India
by John Frederick Muehl
19 members
1 review
5
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The Grass Roof
by Younghill Kang
19 members
1 review
½ 3.3
100
Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853-1896
by Clara Schumann
17 members