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journalists who wrote autobiography
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James Gleick
James Gleick (born 1954)

biographer, journalist, historian of science, essayist

  • Harvard University, Harvard College

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Faster
The Information
Chaos
Genius
Time Travel
Isaac Newton
What Just Happened
Nature's Chaos
The Best American Science Writing 2000
Genius Hb S/Wx10
Chaos X10 S/W Whs
Genius Export X12 D/B
Genius Hb D/Bx12
Genius Pb Tsp
Genius B D/Bx18
Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (born 1965)

journalist, professor, surgeon, researcher

  • University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School

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Better
Complications
Being Mortal
The Checklist Manifesto
The Best American Science Writing 2003
The Best American Science Writing 2006
The Checklist Manifesto
Being Mortal
Checklist Manifesto - Isler Nasil Dogru Yapilir
El efecto Checklist
Good Medicine
Complicaciones
Sibukhim
Zui hao de gao bie
Complicacions.
Ser mortal
Complicaciones
Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer (born 1958)

journalist, music journalist

  • University of Oxford

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White sands
Out of Sheer Rage
The Ongoing Moment
But Beautiful
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
The contest of the century
The missing of the Somme
The search
Otherwise known as the human condition
Zona
The Colour of Memory
1% - Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality
Anglo-English Attitudes
Last Days of Roger Federer
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered
The Bad Side of Books
Ways of telling
From Here to There
Life with a Capital L
Jazz impro
From Here to There
Paris Dream-time
Anglo-English Attitudes
Working The Room Essays And Reviews 19992010
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy'
Life with a Capital L
See/Saw
Tom Hunter
Open City #9
See/Saw
Another great day at sea
Understanding a Photograph
Volte-Face
Out of sheer rage
Ama Güzel
In cerca
The street philosophy of Garry Winogrand
Working the Room
Bir Hisimla
Todo Aquele Jazz
Icimdeki Yagmur
Ten Poems about Art
Out of Sheer Rage
See/Saw
Out of Sheer Rage
Ici pour aller ailleurs
Working the Room
Yeniden Animsanan Savas
Otherwise Known As the Human Condition
Sex in Venedig, Tod in Varanasi
Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman (born 1964)

lawyer, journalist

  • Wesleyan University, Harvard Law School

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A really good day
Bad Mother
Fight of the Century
Girls who like boys who like boys
Daughter's keeper
Red Hook Road
The big nap
Murder Plays House
Nursery crimes
Bye-Bye, Black Sheep
Death gets a time-out
A playdate with death
Red Hook Road
Love and other impossible pursuits
The cradle robbers
Love and other impossible pursuits
Kingdom of olives and ash
Love and treasure
Inside this place, not of it
The Big Nap
Nursery crimes
Death gets a time-out
The cradle robbers
Death gets a time-out
Nursery Crimes
And Murder Makes Three
Modern Love, Revised and Updated
Unter guten Freunden. Ein Fall für Juliet Applebaum
El Amor Y Otros Imposibles/ Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
A playdate with death
Loving Learning
Red Hook Road
Zomerse fuga
The Big Nap (Mommy-Track Mystery) by Ayelet Waldman (2001-06-01)
אהבה ועוד משימות בלתי אפשריות
Qué día más bueno
Ahavah ṿe-otsarot aḥerim
[(The Big Nap)] [By (author) Ayelet Waldman] published on (July, 2002)
Qué día más bueno
Daughter's Keeper
Neḳudat mifgash
De weg door het park
Ima raʻah
Bad Mother
Peter Godwin
Peter Godwin (born 1957)

journalist

  • University of Oxford, University of Cambridge

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When a crocodile eats the sun
Mukiwa
The fear
Mukiwa - A White Boy in Africa
'Rhodesians never die'
Information Literacy Meets Library 20
Wild at Heart
Rhodesians never die
The looming epidemic
Information Literacy Beyond Library 20
The fear
The Looming Epidemic
Wild at heart
Concise Practical Guide to Growing Pelargoniens
Gdzie krokodyl zjada słońce
David Gilmour
David Gilmour (born 1949)

journalist, film critic

  • University of Toronto, Upper Canada College

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The Film Club
Sparrow nights
The film club
The ruling caste
How boys see girls
The Last Leopard
Lebanon
A perfect night to go to China
Curzon
Lost between houses
The hungry generations
The perfect order of things
The Long Recessional
Back on Tuesday
An Affair With The Moon
The Ruling Caste
Paisley Weavers Of Other Days
A perfect night to go to China
L'école des films
Cineclub
Back on Tuesday
The film club
Unser allerbestes Jahr
The siren and selected writings
L'école des films
Cities of Spain
Een mooie avond om naar China te gaan
Extraordinary
On an Island
The glass bottom boat
The glass bottom boat
Lebanon
Helen Garner
Helen Garner (born 1942)

journalist

  • University of Melbourne, Janet Clarke Hall

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True stories
The Spare Room
The first stone
Honour & Other people's children
Monkey grip
Postcards from surfers
Joe Cinque's consolation
Cosmo Cosmolino
The feel of steel
This House of Grief
One Day I'll Remember This
Everywhere I look
The childern's Bach
Yellow Notebook
The first stone
An analysis of Tillie Olsen's representation of women in fiction and criticism
Stories
My hard heart
The Last Days of Chez Nous & Two Friends
Luminous
Thorn in the Flesh
Our homes, ourselves
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice
How to End a Story : Diaries
Honour and Other People's Children
Undervalued work, underpaid women
Moving out
And the winner is--
Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca Skloot (born 1972)

journalist

  • Colorado State University, University of Pittsburgh

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Best American Science Writing 2011
The best American science and nature writing 2015
Henrietta Lacks'in Ölümsüz Yasami
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Bessmertnaia zhizn' Genrietty Laks