I'm not a huge fan of biography, and in fact I've only read six (or rather, six and a half) biographies in the past decade. But recently, a friend's enthusiasm about Isaac Deutscher's Trotsky trilogy has got me thinking about the genre, and about what my sparse biographical reading list suggests about me:
Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (read in 2009)
Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (2009)
Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921 (2006)
Lewis Dabney, Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature (2006)
Olivier Todd, Albert Camus: A Life (2004)
Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (2001, never finished)
Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (2000)
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