Favorite Non-Fiction Author?
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Re: Favorite Non-Fiction Author?
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2) Barbara Tuchman - Wrote The Guns Of August for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, as well as The Proud Tower which was written as a series of essays about different aspects of the world during the period 1895 - 1914. She also wrote A Distant Mirror which told the life of a specific knight during the 100 Years War (14th century).
3) Will Durant - Wrote a wonderful little book called The Story of Philosophy, which was my introduction to this subject as a very young man. Durant writes in a manner which makes the subjects he writes about accessible to everyone. He also wrote an eleven volume series a books titled The Story Of Civilization which I happen to own, in which he describes history not only in terms of leaders and wars but concentrates on the detailed day-to-day events of the common people. The time covered is detailed between the beginning of recorded history through the Napolionic era.
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My favorite non-fiction author is definitely Bill Bryson. If you love reading and traveling, pick up one of his works. Here's a quote:
"Happily, all this suited my father. HIs palate only responded to two tastes-burned and ice ream-so everything suited him so long as it was sufficiently dark and not too startingly flavorful. Theirs truly was a marriage made in heaven, for no one could burn food like my mother or eat it like my dad."
-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid
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I never read non-fiction because I'm afraid it will feel like reading a textbook. This book was nothing like that and I was glad I gave it a chance.