Biographies Study Guide

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Malcolm X 5x 20.0% stumper $1,340 avg J:2 DJ:3
J $1,000 2004 A '60s civil rights leader:"By Any Means Necessary"
DJ $1,000 1995 His autobiography, written with Alex Haley, was published posthumously in 1965
J $1,500 DD 2021 Chapters in his 1965 autobiography included "Harlemite", "Saved" & "Mecca"
Julia Child 4x $950 avg J:1 DJ:3
DJ $200 1999 Noel Riley Fitch cooked up a fine biography of this "French Chef" called "Appetite for Life"
DJ $1,200 2022 Jennet Conant's "A Covert Affair" tells of this female chef's time in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA
J $400 2015 "A Covert Affair" serves up a spicy account of this TV chef & her work as a government agent during WWII
Benjamin Franklin 4x $400 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1
DJ $400 2022 "What gave my book... celebrity, was the success of one of its proposed experiments... for drawing lightning from the clouds"
J $600 2003 "The First American" by H.W. Brands depicts the life and times of this colonial inventor and statesman
FJ 1997 In 1791, one year after his death, part of this American's autobiography was published in Paris as "Memoires"
Worth Knowing (35)
Mathew Brady 3 Leon Trotsky 3 Samuel Johnson 3 Theodore Roosevelt 2 slavery 2 Rocky Graziano 2 Nelson Mandela 2 Marilyn Monroe 2 Lillian Gish 2 Lady Sings the Blues 2 Kitty Kelley 2 Katharine Hepburn 2 James Baldwin 2 Gloria Vanderbilt 2 Fidel Castro 2 Erle Stanley Gardner 2 Eleanor Roosevelt 2 Eddie Fisher 2 Corazon Aquino 2 Booker T. Washington 2 Arthur Miller 2 American Sniper 2 Alexander Graham Bell 2 (Alfred) Nobel 2 Harry S Truman 2 Sheilah Graham 2 Samuel Morse 2 Sam Walton 2 Nikola Tesla 2 Mary Todd Lincoln 2 Martin Luther 2 Douglas MacArthur 2 Clive Davis 2 Charles Lindbergh 2 Braille 2

American Literature

4 answers | 9 clues
Worth Knowing (4)
Mark Twain 3 Maya Angelou 2 Lucian Freud 2 F. Scott Fitzgerald 2

Poetry

4 answers | 8 clues
Worth Knowing (4)
Sam Houston 2 Julia Ward Howe 2 John Paul Jones 2 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 2

British Literature

2 answers | 5 clues
Worth Knowing (2)
Oscar Wilde 3 Alexander Hamilton 2
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