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    Weird inventors, gambling addicts, criminals who gave it all up and went good, marginal types with interesting backstories, oddball outlaws… GO!

    by spraypaintthewalls

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    1. *A Woman of No Importance* by Sonia Purnell about a one-legged American spy for the British in Nazi-occupied France during WWII.

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      The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer. Covers the life of one of the most fascinating weirdos of the Russian Revolution (and short term dictator of Mongolia), Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg.

    3. I’m a big fan of movie maker Werner Herzog so really enjoyed his autobiography Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

    4. Arthur Rimbaud by Graham Robb.

      He was a child genius who transformed French poetry in his teens, had a scandalous gay affair with another poet, and then lived a really extraordinary life of adventure in Africa. His life story is really fascinating.

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      The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov, about Frederick Bruce Thomas, he was born in the American south to former slaves and later became a successful businessman in Russia. 

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