Choosing books for others shouldn't be hard in a year of magnificent biographies and memoirs; my only problem has been confining myself to a mere 16 of them.

(Bader's exploits are described in the magnificent biography "Reach for the Sky.")

Powell fans will find little new in this account (and will likely prefer Wallace Stegner's magnificent biography).

Nicholas Boyle's magnificent biography recounts that life with all the nobility it deserves.

Based on a decade of meticulous interviews and archival research, this magnificent biography methodically demolishes every pillar of Mao's claim to sympathy or legitimacy.

That and, of course, his magnificent biography of one of the greatest men of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Let us hope that this magnificent biography is a harbinger of a long overdue Jonson revival.

A magnificent and subtle biography of a magnificent and subtle writer.

"Damned to Fame" is a magnificent biography.

Thanks to William J. Duiker's magnificent new biography, this is no longer the case.