No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), by Fawn McKay Brodie, the first important non-hagiographic biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of Latter Day Saint movement
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Portrait of a Marriage, the 1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West completed by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals and letters