Famous autobiographies pdf to word
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Fierce Attachments
“I remember only the women,” Vivian Gornick writes near the start of her memoir of growing up in the Bronx tenements in the s, surrounded by the blunt, brawling, yearning women of the neighborhood, chief among them her indomitable mother. “I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my face. It has taken me 30 years to understand how much of them I understood.”
When Gornick’s father died suddenly, she looked in the coffin for so long that she had to be pulled away. That fearlessness suffuses this book; she stares unflinchingly at all that is hidden, difficult, strange, unresolvable in herself and others — at loneliness, sexual malice and the devouring, claustral closeness of mothers and daughters. The book is propelled by Gornick’s attempts to extricate herself from the stifling sorrow of her home — first through sex and marriage, but later, and more reliably, through the life of the mind, the “glamorous company” of ideas. It’s a portrait of th
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List of famous autobiographies – GK
February 19
List of all Autobiographies of Famous people :
Questions on Autobiographies and their authors can be expected in the Gk section of MBA exams like IIFT, XAT, CMAT, etc. Along with the recent releases, students are also expected to know the books and authors of famous autobiographies written over time. So, here we have a list of famous autobiographies that will be useful for your MBA exam GK preparations.
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A detailed list of all autobiographies of Famous personalities:
Recent Autobiographies:
| Name of the Author | Name of the book | Published Year |
| Salman Rushdie | Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder | |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin | An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the s | |
| RuPaul | The House of Hidden Meanings | |
| Walela Nehanda | Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda | |
| Barbra Streisand | My Name Is Barbra |