Books & Authors GK Questions with Answers – Page 19

Walter Isaacson wrote the authorised biography of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, after a long series of interviews with him.

Unbreakable is the autobiography of the boxer Mary Kom from Manipur, and it describes her early life in a farming family, her training, her world championship titles and her return to the ring after becoming a mother.

India Divided was written by Rajendra Prasad, who later became the first President of India, and it examines the demand for partition and the arguments made on either side.

The Diary of a Young Girl is the diary kept by Anne Frank while her family was in hiding in Amsterdam during the Second World War.

Sanjaya Baru served as media adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and wrote The Accidental Prime Minister as an insider's account of those years.

Playing It My Way is the autobiography of Sachin Tendulkar and was published shortly after he retired from international cricket.

India Wins Freedom is Azad's account of the last decade of the freedom struggle, of the Cabinet Mission and of the events that led to partition.

The book was written by Robert Kanigel about the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, so the writer and the subject are two different people, which makes it a biography.

Wings of Fire was written by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari, a scientist who had worked under Kalam in the missile programme.

The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, written originally in Gujarati and later translated into English.

He was a Hindi poet long before he became Prime Minister, and Meri Ekyavan Kavitayen is his best-known collection. Kaidi Kavirai Ki Kundaliyan holds verses written during the Emergency, and Meri Sansadiya Yatra collects his speeches in Parliament.

Exam Warriors is written for school students facing examinations and sets out short chapters on preparation, sleep, play and dealing with pressure.

His autobiography, Matters of Discretion, covers a career that ran from the freedom movement through the ministries he held to his term as Prime Minister, and it is the book usually cited alongside the foreign policy approach that carries his name.

He had a long career in Gujarat and at the centre before becoming Prime Minister at the head of the first non-Congress government, and the book covers that whole span.

Nehru wrote the letters from prison in the early 1930s to explain the history of the world to a young reader, and they were later collected as Glimpses of World History.

These are the second and third volumes of his political memoir, the first being The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years.

His account of the office, published as My Presidential Years, is valued because his term fell in a period of short-lived governments, and it records how a President handles the choice of a Prime Minister when no party has a majority.

Besides these two titles he wrote Indian Philosophy in two volumes and The Philosophy of the Upanishads, and Teachers' Day is observed on his birthday, 5 September.

The first President of India published India Divided in 1946, examining the demand for partition and the arguments made on both sides in the years before independence.

The Insider is a novel that follows a politician's climb through state and national politics, and it is read as a lightly disguised account of the system its author knew from the inside.