To celebrate, here is a list of five biographers and a few of their recommended books:

• Darren Bonaparte: A Lily Among Thorns: The Repatriation of St. Kateri Tekakwitha
• Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila: Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
• Douglas Brinkley: Cronkite
• Joe Jackson: Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
• Ron Chernow: Washington: A Life
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Grant

And here are three exceptional memoirs:

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
• The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power