(Much thanks to Jane Hammons of the Berkeley College Writing Program for the list)
All the President's Men (Woodward & Bernstein)
Shattered Glass (Stephen Glass)
Capote (Truman Capote)
Reds (John Reed)
American Splendor (Harvey Pekar)
Angel at My Table (Janet Frame)
Adaptation (Susan Orlean)
Infamous (Truman Capote)
Where the Buffalo Roam (Hunter S. Thompson)
Stone Reader (documentary—Mark Moscowitz/ Dow Mossman)
Freedom Writers (Erin Gruwell and her high school students)
The Great Debaters (Melvin B. Tolson; poet, newspaper columnist, professor)
Kinsey (Alfred Kinsey)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Dorothy Parker)
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
The Basketball Diaries (Jim Carroll)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
Henry and June (Henry Miller, Anais Nin)
Beautiful Dreamers (Walt Whitman)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Alberto Granado, Che Guevara)
Riding in Cars with Boys (Beverly D'rsquo; Onofrio)