Books by William Finnegan
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
by William Finnegan
🏆 Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
“For both Finnegan and I, surfing, initially, was an identity when were searching for one, and then we discovered it made us feel better about ourselves. It wasn’t fiction, it was real… and we wrote about that. Surfing is such a kinetic medium, it can be hard to capture in words. Maybe that’s why film and photography seem to be the foremost media for telling surf tales. And yet, Finnegan’s descriptions of waves are stunningly vivid.” Read more...
Gerry Lopez, Sportspersons & Sportswriter
Interviews where books by William Finnegan were recommended
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by Jason Roberts -
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
by Ilyon Woo -
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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig -
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly Gage -
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert -
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is awarded annually to “a distinguished and appropriately documented” biography by an author from or based in the United States. The authors of winning books receive $15,000, and join a starry pantheon of great American writers. Here, we’ve put together a summary of all the Pulitzer-winning biographies since the turn of the millennium.
The best books on Surfing, recommended by Gerry Lopez
The second best thing about surfing is talking about it afterward. Surf legend Gerry ‘Mr Pipeline’ Lopez’s collection of surfing stories Surf is Where You Find It, now out in its third edition, relates some of the epic waves he’s encountered, and the legendary individuals he met along the way in a lifetime’s pursuit of the glide on the ocean and on the land. Here, he picks five books on surfing by friends and heroes who have found lessons in surfing about what it means to live life well.
