25 writer's biographies

There's a list of 25 inspiring biographies of writers over at OnlineCollege.org which has just expanded my virtual TBR shelf. Some of these were already on the list, but many are new to me. The post gives summaries of the books and why you should read them, but here's the list of titles, for easy reference (mine as much as yours):

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath 
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass 
• J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter 
• The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes 
• Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo 
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 
• The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein 
• Born Standing Up by Steve Martin (already on my TBR list)
  
• My Years with Ayn Rand by Nathaniel Branden 
• Excelsior! by Stan Lee and George Mair 
• Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim 
• The Diary of Anais Nin by Anais Nin 
• Why this World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser 
• Ignatius Rising by Deborah George Harvey and Rene Pol Nevils (Confederacy of Dunces is on my shelf, waiting)
  
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (already read this, quite good)
  
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (already read this. Was funny when I was 18... I wonder how it holds up?)
  
• Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain (I read Life on the Mississippi, will read this as well)
  
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson 
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson

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