Benjamin Franklin
Virginia Hall
Erwin Rommel
John Nash
Alan Turing
Percy Fawcett
Louis Zamperini
Alexander Hamilton
John Adams
Shirley Jackson
Linda Ronstadt
William Shakespeare
Harry Truman
others...
Though not a biography in the strictest sense, I just finished Indianapolis The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man. One of the best damn books I've read in a while. Don't let Robert Shaw's monologue in JAWS be all you know about the U.S.S. Indianapolis.
"I am allergic to piety, it makes me break out in rash judgements." - Penn Jillette
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered." - Robert G. Ingersoll
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