Bauby’s book was made into a 2007 movie.īragg, a former New York Times reporter, describes his life growing up poor in northern Alabama and his struggle to escape the cycle of poverty that claimed many of his neighbors. In it, he recalls the events of his life and demonstrates that even though the body is immobilized the mind can still wander freely. He wrote the book by blinking his left eyelid.
The author, a French magazine editor, suffered a stroke that left him with “locked-in syndrome” – physically paralyzed but mentally present. The writing of Bauby’s slim 1997 memoir is a story in itself. “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” Jean-Dominique Bauby Here are 10 more suggestions, in alphabetical order by author:
Naturally, the staff here at CNN had some worthy books that didn’t make Amazon’s list. Among their choices: Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods,” Mary Karr’s “The Liar’s Club,” Elie Wiesel’s “Night,” “The Andy Warhol Diaries” and Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago.” The Amazon staff compiled a list of about 200 books and winnowed it down to the final 100. “A lot of people were saying, ‘I love to read biographies’ and it was going to be Presidents’ Day, and we thought of all the presidential biographies, so we said let’s do biographies,” said Sara Nelson, Amazon’s Editorial Director.
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