Matching the Subjects of New Biographies to Their Unusual Habits

Who Conserved Herring? Who Self-Pleasured to Excess?

John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman. ecco.	American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham. Random House.	Chagall: a Biography by Jackie Wullschlager. Knopf.	Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando by Stefan Kanfer. Knopf.	Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB [Ol’ Dirty Bastard] by Jaime Lowe. Faber and Faber.	Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel by Edmund White. Atlas & Co.
“[He] was an impossible guest. He took to nude sunbathing … He mutilated an heirloom crucifix.”	“[He] used to buy a cucumber and a herring … eating the head one day and keeping the tail for the next.”	“He became a dedicated wanker … Once, he accepted [a friend’s] challenge to do it ten times in a single day… ”	“I caught a glimpse of … his fairy-tale canopy bed shrouded in cascading yellow chiffon.”	“Hired as an usher at a local movie house … he substituted a dickey for the starched shirt…”	“One of his secretaries once observed that ‘there was more of the woman in his nature than in that of any man I ever knew…’”