What's the best biography or autobiography you've read recently? [View all]

I'm currently reading a (necessarily) speculative biography of Shakespeare, Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt. Greenblatt is a Harvard prof. and editor of the Norton Shakespeare. He knows his Bard. We have a lot of factual information about Shakespeare and Greenblatt combines that with the history of the times and a knowledge of the people Shakespeare necessarily met and interacted with, and constructs a convincing portrait of the man. At the same time I'm reading Acting Shakespeare by John Gielgud, and several of the plays. Gielgud was the premier Shakespearian actor of the 1st half of the 20th century. He's witty, intelligent and brief. Also a great raconteur with considerable insight into the plays.