2009 Biographies

2009 was a big year for biographies.  Here are some of the biographies appearing on the end of year Best-Of lists:

• Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller

• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

• Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch

• Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

• The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley

• Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin

• Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout

• Robert Altman: The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff

• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles

• True Compass: A Memoir by Edward Kennedy

• Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa by Mark Seal