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A list of my top ten biographies is likely to connect with nobody completely, but that is because biographies are enjoyed because they connect with us for a variety of reasons. I’ve listed those that I’ve enjoyed the most and some of them because the biographer himself was such a good writer.<\/p>\n

I could easily have limited this to major Christian figures or to other categories.<\/p>\n

Feel free to comment on your one or two favorite biographies.<\/p>\n

1. G. Sayer, Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times<\/span>.<\/p>\n

2. G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox<\/span><\/p>\n

3. P. Ackroyd, Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

4. W. Martin, A Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story<\/span><\/p>\n

5. E.K. Kaplan, S.H. Dresner, Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness<\/span><\/p>\n

6. E. Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography<\/span><\/p>\n

7. F. Scott Elledge, E.B. White<\/span><\/p>\n

8. T. Teachout, The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

9. G. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards<\/span><\/p>\n

10. A. Hoffman, Inventing Mark Twain<\/p>\n

Others include<\/span>:<\/p>\n

A. Hollingsworth, The Simple Life of Mister Rogers<\/span>
B. Reynolds, Dorothy L. Sayers<\/span>
K.S. Lynn, Hemingway<\/span>
M. Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin<\/span>
F. Kiernan, Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy<\/span>
J. Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life<\/span>
T. Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965<\/span>
T. Dudley-Smith, John Stott<\/span>
J. McMorris, The Warden of English: The Life of H.W. Fowler<\/span>
F.W. Dillistone, C.H. Dodd<\/span>
C. Clinton, Hariett Tubman<\/span><\/p>\n

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