Libraries are so full of people's stories, aren't they? And the best place to look for people's stories is the biography section of New Canaan Library. We have an impressive collection of titles, including biographies and autobiographies, and they range from pure history to tell-all tales.

In our next issue of Beyond the Best Seller we are going to recommend biographies, autobiographies, and those popular fictional tales of people's lives.

Biographical fiction is a way that writers tell a famous person's story but they do it with their own twist. It allows them to make a case for what they believe about the subject. So many of us read these fictional tales and they are so vivid to us, they become as real as a well-researched biography to us. And often they are quite well researched, really.

And what about our own stories? We will be making recommendations for those of you who want to begin writing your own memoir, or for those who are interested in making a scrapbook of their own life.

Look for the next edition of Beyond the Best Seller in early October. It will invite you to delve into someones life, either through fiction or nonfiction. The Library is so full of stories.....