Most biographies of Feynman are really hagiographies of Feynman, who was no doubt a great showman. Here's a collection of his letters, which, despite revealing

Most biographies of Feynman are really hagiographies of Feynman, who was no doubt a great showman. Here's a collection of his letters, which, despite revealing some personal flaws, show that he is wiser and more vulnerable than we imagine. Really underrated in my opinion. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465023711/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465023711/ (The letters to family and Wolfram is also there.) Another good one, in my opinion, is a rather raw portrait made from the vantage point of a student towards the end of Feynman's life. It's the unvarnished details that reveal the ordinariness and greatness of that physicist dude. http://www.amazon.com/Feynmans-Rainbow-Search-Physics-Vintage/dp/0307946495/ http://www.amazon.com/Feynmans-Rainbow-Search-Physics-Vintag... I think Feynman really believed that anybody could become as (wise? accomplished? happy?) as he, and I think most books don't do justice to that dream of his, by making him out to be some kind of trickster god.