Do You Like Reading Biographies?
If so, you may be interested to know that the 2007 National Biography Award winner was announced on Tuesday 27 March,and the winner is...
![East of Time by Jacob G. Rosenberg](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCsyPV7ZMYd2_kkvLmjb3id5L1KUGL6z9T7FeeEaap28ummVbAbLgZt_ITxtdZ1rQp0GebgIXHFSGmD2pfGbQfHJnZnghj7eGucAYyro5ii7RL54vw3Lc5KZ4gnMlOKG2mZHBV/s200/eastoftime.jpg)
East of time is a personal memoir, collection of short stories/reminiscences of the author's adolescence spent in a Jewish ghetto in Lodz until 1944, when he was sent to Auschwitz. He was the only member of his family to survive. By all accounts, this book is a powerful story of humanity. It has previously also won the 2006 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
Other books in the shortlist included:
- Mr Stuart's Track by John Bailey
- No Time for Dances by Gillian Bouras
- The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science by Peter Doherty
- Arthur Tange by Peter Edwards
- Margaret Olley: Far from a Still Life by Meg Stewart
- Bernard Shaw: A Life by A.M. Gibbs
- Will Dyson, Australia's Radical Genius by Ross McMullin
- Hoi Polloi by Craig Sherborne
What is your favourite biography? Leave a comment and share a good book with other readers.