Biographies

This list includes autobiographies as well as biographies. I have read all of these books and found them to be interesting and informative and well written. Sometimes they really opened my eyes and allowed me to deeply enter into someone else’s experience. I believe that being able to look through another person’s eyes is a true treasure and an unparalleled path to understanding. Again, this is not an exhaustive list, just a few of the books I thought were very good.

Books - in no particular order

• The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, by Elyn R. Saks. (2008)
• Thinking in Pictures, by Temple Grandin (2006).
• In Pieces, by Sally Field (2018).
• When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi (2016).
• Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan (2012).
• Breaking Night, by Liz Murray (2011).
• Touched with Fire, by Kay Redfield Jamison (1996).
• Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen (1994).
• The Quiet Room, by Lori Schiller and Amanda Bennett (1996).
• The Broken Cord, by Michael Dorris (1992).