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Article: Bodacious Bag of Biographies // 'Twas a Year of Presidents, Pilots, Ballplayers and Spies
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- December 18, 1994
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It is once again time to announce apologetically that I cannot pick a
10 Best Books of the Year list, simply because to do so would be
journalistic effrontery - it's impossible for a single hard-working
litcrit to read more than a tiny fraction of the 50,000-plus new
titles published each year.
That being said, here are the 10 books - most of them
biographies - I did read that most edified, entertained or
exhilarated me during 1994:
SAINT-EXUPERY by Stacy Schiff. This elegant biography of the
French aviator who wrote the classics Wind, Sand and Stars and The
Little Prince managed to make interesting even Parisian literary
politics.
COLORED PEOPLE by Henry Louis Gates Jr. A Harvard ...