Biography – Deer Park Public Library Pageturners

How Georgia Became O’Keeffe, by Karen Karbo.

November 10, 2011Biography, Nonfiction, Staff Picks

This biography is both irreverent and reverential, if that’s possible. In it, Karen Karbo examines how Georgia O’Keeffe lived (and examined) her life & shares her observations as a guideline to living, creating, one’s own unique (eccentric and true to the self) life.

Blue Nights, by Joan Didion.

October 31, 2011Biography, Nonfiction, Staff Picks

“When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.” Joan Didion quotes herself then “talks” poetically (in prose) about the death of her daughter (not long after the death of her husband, as mused upon in The Year of Magical Thinking) and about feeling her own mortality around age 75.