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The 11 Best Biographies and Memoirs of

After the year&#;s best children&#;s books, art and design books, photography books, science books, history books, food books, and psychology and philosophy books, the best-of series continues with the most compelling, provocative and thought-provoking psychology and philosophy books featured here this year.

STEVE JOBS

In , Steve Jobs asked former TIME Magazine editor and prolific biographer Walter Isaacson to write his biography. Isaacson &#; who has previously profiled such icons as Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Kissinger &#; thought the request not only presumptuous but also odd for a man of Jobs&#;s age. What he didn&#;t know was that Jobs had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and had starkly brushed up against his mortality. Over the next few years, Isaacson ended up having over 40 interviews and conversations with Jobs, from which he gleaned the backbone for Steve Jobs, his highly anticipated biography &#; perhaps an expected pick for my omnibus of the year&#;s best biographers and memoirs, yet very much a deserving one, not merely because Jobs was a personal hero who shaped my own intellectu

Best of Top Memoirs and Biographies

All week long, Shelf Life will be listing EW’s favorite books of — sorted into separate categories by genre. Click through the gallery to see our picks for the best memoirs and biographies of the year, starting, of course, with the lovely Tina Fey.

Tina Fey, Bossypants

From the EW review: “In this genially jumbled memoir-esque collection of riffs, essays, laundry lists, true stories, fantasy scenarios, SNL script excerpts, and embarrassing photos from the wilderness years before she received the gift of a flattering haircut, the great Miz Fey puts on the literary equivalent of a satisfying night of sketch comedy.”

Life Itself, Roger Ebert

From the EW review: “Ebert writes with unflinching candor about difficult subjects, including the cancer that has left him profoundly disfigured and unable to eat or speak. But this is not a depressing book. In the end, writing is what gives Ebert purpose.”

Lucking Out, James Wolcott

Chronicling his time as a young writer in New York City in the s, Wolcott’s sharply written memoir details being made into one of film critic Pauline Kael’s “Paulettes,” becoming steeped in the burgeo

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