The Top 10 Best Biographies of All Time

To keep the list short, only books currently in print and available in English are included. This list is according to Esquire Magazine.

  1. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
  2. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
  3. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
  4. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
  5. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
  6. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
  7. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
  8. Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
  9. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
  10. The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius