Start with high-confidence writers' lives books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Voyager
Russell Banks
An Autobiography
Agatha Christie
North of Normal
Cea Sunrise Person, Harper
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange
Ambrose Bierce
Roy Morris Jr.
Louisa May Alcott
Harriet Reisen
Conan Doyle for the Defense
Margalit Fox
Where the Jews Aren't
Masha Gessen
American Smoke
Iain Sinclair
Hope Against Hope
Nadezhda Mandelstam, Max Hayward
Illuminations
Walter Benjamin
A Dream Called Home
Reyna Grande
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
The Man Who Invented Fiction
William Egginton
Try Not to Be Strange
Michael Hingston
Nietzsche
Stefan Zweig, Will Stone
