Biography Finalists

by David Varno | Jan-24-2009

Paul J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, Amistad

Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, Penguin Press

Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, Knopf

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, Norton

Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Knopf




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