People live a lifetime, perhaps obscure, or they may be passed down through the ages. When you are busy with blood and work, have you ever thought about another way of life?
Today, for you to take stock of six classic celebrity biographies, they may be business giants, perhaps scientific people, perhaps the literati and inkers of the ages, or perhaps the most popular novel writers.
In short, may there always be a book, a person, that can strike your heart.
Jobs biography
Walter Isaacson / Guan Yanxi / CITIC Press / 2011
The only official biography of Jobs has attracted the attention of the global media and industry since it was published by American publisher Simon Schuster in the first half of 2011.
More than two years, more than 40 face-to-face conversations with Jobs, and unlimited interviews with more than a hundred of Jobs's family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues have created this exclusive biography.
Although Jobs gave the book a full complement to the interviews and creations, he never interfered with the content and did not claim the right to read the full text before publication. He sets no limits on any resource or person he associates, and even encourages those he knows to speak up.
"I've done a lot of things that I'm not proud of, like getting my girlfriend pregnant at 23 and how I handle it," he says.
When it comes to people he's worked with and his competitors, he's outspoken, even snarky. His passion, energy, desire, perfectionism, artistic accomplishment, brutality, and obsession with control shape the business philosophy at a glance.
Similarly, his friends, enemies, and colleagues were able to provide us with an unprecedented and undisguised perspective...
"If you sit down and watch quietly, you will find out how anxious your mind is, and if you want to calm down, it will only get worse, but after a long time, it will always calm down, and there will be space in your heart for you to listen to more subtle things." 」
Biography of Marie Curie
Eve Curie / Jia Wenhao / Beijing Yanshan Publishing House / 2005
Marie Curie is a miracle in the history of modern science, she is like a radiant, dazzling star across the starry sky of science, leaving a permanent sparkle. With the courage and perseverance unimaginable to ordinary people, she has written an unprecedented chapter of science and made immeasurable contributions to all mankind.
Without Marie Curie's efforts, mankind may have discovered radium decades later, and it is unknown how many lives would have been lost due to the lack of effective means of diagnosis and treatment, nor how many major related discoveries would have been delayed due to the lack of radium revelations, and the atomic age would not have come so quickly.
Such an extraordinary and remarkable contribution, made by a woman scientist who was rare at the time, under unimaginably difficult conditions, could not but arouse the world's great interest in her background, her life, her character, her personality, the various situations in her life and work.
This biography fulfills the world's desire to know Marie Curie, and since its inception, it has been translated into nearly thirty languages and spread around the world, telling the touching and inspiring story of Marie Curie to generations of readers.
She deliberately excludes distractions from her calendar, neither attending gatherings with friends nor reaching out to anyone. Similarly, she believes that material life is not important, and even feels that material life does not exist. According to her principles, she prescribed for herself a Spartan life, almost to the point of impersonality. ”
Beauty and violence
Henry Scott Stokes / So / Beijing United Publishing Company /
Yukio Mishima, who was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times and one of Japan's most reputable writers after World War II, was deeply influenced by classical culture since childhood, and became famous in his youth with "Confessions of the Mask", but in the prime of the four-volume long "Sea of Plenty", he "died in his belly" to express his radical political demands, leaving the world with a difficult mystery...
Beauty and Violence is one of the earliest and most authoritative biographies of Yukio Mishima, and an answer sheet to the mystery of the writer's death, written by his former friend and veteran British journalist Henry Scott Stokes.
In this book, the author cites rich literary historical materials, reviews the writer's short and brilliant creative process, and compares horizontally with contemporaries such as Osamu Dazai and Yasunari Kawabata, vividly depicting the life of a writer who has unremittingly thought between the East and the West, classical and modern, and pursued the aesthetic realm of "death, night and blood".
"Everyone has a theory about love so they don't get isolated."
Su Dongpo biography
Lin Yutang / Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House / 2016
The Su Dongpo of this book is an optimist whose disposition is difficult to change, a moralist who is compassionate and compassionate, a prose writer, a painter of the new school, a great calligrapher, an experimenter of winemaking, an engineer, an opposition to false Taoism, a practitioner of yoga, a Buddhist, a scholar, a secretary of the emperor, a drinker, a judge with a compassionate heart, a political insistence on his own opinions, a wanderer under the moon, a poet, a person who is witty and joking by nature.
But this is not enough to tell the whole story of Su Dongpo...
"We can only know who we really know, and we can only fully understand the people we really love." I think I know Su Dongpo completely because I know him, and I know him because I love him. ”
"However, what others can't understand is that Su Dongpo will be angry because of the incident, but he will not hate people." He hates evil things, and he doesn't care about being an evil person. I just don't like people like this. Because hating others is a manifestation of his own incompetence, Su Dongpo is not inferior to others, so he never hates people. ”
Zhang Ailing biography
Yu Bin / People's Literature Publishing House / 2018
Zhang Ailing is still one of the hot spots of public concern, her biography emerges in an endless stream, "Zhang Ailing Biography" with the position of "not being a legend", rigorously based on the literature, made a comprehensive and in-depth narrative of Zhang Ailing's life and his works.
According to the trajectory of Zhang Ailing's life, the book is divided into three parts: the first (1920-1943), the middle (1943-1945), and the lower (1945-1995). It is characterized by profound and meticulous analysis and commentary, which can combine Zhang Ailing's works with her experiences, thoughts, emotions, etc., convey the insights of the literati everywhere, and find out the deep connection between Zhang Ailing and her works.
The writing is elegant, not branched, neither pedantic nor avoiding sentimental temperament, and is even considered by readers to be Zhang Ailing's writing.
"Zhang Ailing is concerned about the fate of those young women in the context of the decline of the old culture and the old way of life."
Du Yuesheng biography
Zhang Junyu / Encyclopedia of China Press / 2011
It lasted more than ten years, and the oral accounts of Du Yuesheng's men, relatives, and friends were recorded in detail, written by the famous historical novelist Zhang Junyu, Du's proud protégé Lu Jingshi personally edited it, and the famous historian Shen Yunlong corrected the whole book.
Raw flowers and wonderful pens, strange people and wonders, thick, smooth, great agitation, great wisdom, reading can not bear to release the volume.
Du Yuesheng was born in the city, did not know nothing, and was famous all over the world as a civilian. His life story is full of legend and mystery. Du Shi's promise is renewed, and his life is a big era and a melting pot.
So he calmly followed them, and as a result, sin devoured him. Du Yuesheng not only bet, but also gambled more and more luxuriously; not only moved his heart, but even indulged more and more deeply, he risked giving his life because of his sloppiness and peacefulness. ”