Biographies

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#	Answer	Appearances	Sample Clue
1	Malcolm X	5	His autobiography, written with Alex Haley, was published posthumously in 1965
2	Julia Child	4	Noel Riley Fitch cooked up a fine biography of this "French Chef" called "Appetite for Life"
3	Oscar Wilde	3	"The Importance of Being Oscar"
4	Mathew Brady	3	"Mr. Lincoln's Cameraman" is a biography of this photographer
5	Mark Twain	3	In 1931 Clara Clemens published a memoir of this author, her father
6	Benjamin Franklin	3	In 1791, one year after his death, part of this American's autobiography was published in Paris as "Memoires"
7	Theodore Roosevelt	2	President profiled in "Mornings on Horseback"
8	slavery	2	One of my last public acts was signing a 1790 petition to Congress urging the abolition of this
9	Sam Houston	2	"The Raven" is Marquis James' biography of this president of the Republic of Texas
10	Rocky Graziano	2	26 years after his 1st autobiography, he wrote sequel, "Somebody Down Here Likes Me Too"
11	Nelson Mandela	2	The title of this South African's autobiography is "Long Walk to Freedom"
12	Maya Angelou	2	"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is this Black writer's autobiography
13	Marilyn Monroe	2	Norman Mailer's biography of this screen goddess was published in 1973 & expanded in 1975
14	Lillian Gish	2	Silent screen star who titled hers, "The Movies, Mr. Griffith, & Me"
15	Lady Sings the Blues	2	Published in 1956, it was the autobiography of singer Billie Holiday
16	Kitty Kelley	2	This author of several unauthorized biographies is the subject of one herself: "Poison Pen"
17	Katharine Hepburn	2	This star is the subject of Anne Edwards' "A Remarkable Woman" & Charles Higham's "Kate"
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	This author of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" was the subject of a 1991 biog., "Talking at the Gates"
21	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	2	This first memoir of Maya Angelou became a bestseller
22	Gloria Vanderbilt	2	"Once Upon a Time" contains this designer's own story about her notorious 1934 custody trial
23	Fidel Castro	2	The biography for this Cuban leader says he likes classical music, baseball & skin diving
24	Erle Stanley Gardner	2	"The Case of the Real Perry Mason"
25	Eleanor Roosevelt	2	Joseph P. Lash wrote books about this woman "and Franklin" & in "The Years Alone"
26	Eddie Fisher	2	He wrote "Eddie: My Life, My Loves" while living in an apartment lent by Rona Barrett
27	Corazon Aquino	2	From the 1980s, "Cory: Profile of a President" was about her
28	Booker T. Washington	2	This Black educator published his autobiography under the title "Up From Slavery"
29	Arthur Miller	2	"Timebends: A Life" is about this author's life, not a salesman's death
30	American Sniper	2	This movie gets its title from the autobiography of Navy SEAL & master marksman Chris Kyle
31	Alexander Graham Bell	2	Helen Keller dedicated "The Story of My Life" to this man who "taught the deaf to speak"
32	(Alfred) Nobel	2	A 1942 biography of this man was subtitled "Dynamite King, Architect of Peace"
33	Harry S Truman	2	This president's memoirs are in 2 volumes, "Year of Decisions" & "Years of Trial and Hope"
34	Leon Trotsky	2	In 1930, after he was banished from the USSR, he wrote "My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography"
35	Samuel Morse	2	Carleton Mabee titled his book about this inventor & artist "The American Leonardo"
36	Samuel Johnson	2	He was a biographer himself, but he's best known as the subject of a 1791 biography
37	Mary Todd Lincoln	2	Carl Sandburg co-wrote a 1932 biography of this woman, "Wife and Widow"
38	Martin Luther	2	A religious leader: "Here I Stand"
39	Douglas MacArthur	2	William Manchester kept this soldier from fading away in his biography "American Caesar"
40	F. Scott Fitzgerald	2	This author, not Gary Larson, is the subject of "The Far Side of Paradise"