Friday, October 08, 2010

5 best books by Nobel winners who didn't win their medal for literature

At the Huffington Post, Sammy Perlmutter tagged the five best books from Nobel winners who didn't win their medal for literature.

One book on the list:
Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela

In 1993, the Nobel Peace Prize was "awarded jointly to Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk 'for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa'." In 1995, Mandela published "Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela," which gives a detailed portrait a seminal figure of the 20th century.
Read about another book on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue