Silent Stars is an introduction to some great performers!
Dorothy Parker, What Fresh Hell Is This? is a biography of the poet and party girl of the Algonquin Round Table. Not suitable for the optimistic; she was a very unhappy woman.
If you ever wondered what it must have been like to be one of the Gilbreth children, wonder no more. Two of their children wrote these marvellous auto/biographical books:
Cheaper by the Dozen predates our era, but who cares!
Belles on Their Toes
There is a page on the elder Gibreths in this site's non-fiction section.
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