# Looking for a good biography of Iggy Pop **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-good-biography-of-iggy-pop/337612 "2005-12-29T19:09:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MackoUr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MackoUr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MackoUr)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-good-biography-of-iggy-pop/337612/1 "2005-12-29T19:09:21Z")
For a niece who is writing a paper for her senior English class. Any recommendations? ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-good-biography-of-iggy-pop/337612/2 "2005-12-29T19:54:42Z")
It’s not exactly a biography, but Legs Mcneil and Gillian McCain edit a great oral history of punk called [Please Kill me](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0349108803/qid=1135885922/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-7185477-5461561?n=507846&s=books&v=glance). It’s a great read, and the Stooges are highlighted pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-good-biography-of-iggy-pop/337612/3 "2005-12-30T00:58:26Z")
I was going to mention the same book as post above. Then I was going to say, Iggy Pop for an English Paper? My how school has changed. Beats the hell out of \*Wuthering Heights \* though. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-good-biography-of-iggy-pop/337612/4 "2005-12-30T01:11:44Z")
Have your friend scare up a copy of Danny Sugerman’s memoir, [Wonderland Avenue](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0349101752/qid=1135904703/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3360584-6023334?n=507846&s=books&v=glance). At the age of thirteen Sugerman was hired by The Doors as an office gopher, and eventually progressed to more visible and responsible positions. Branching out after a few years into promotion and talent management, one of his first clients was Iggy himself. Being a memoir, this book obviously is mostly given over to his troubled youth, budding music-industry career, and heroin habit; still there’s quite a bit of information on Iggy himself. It’s interesting reading and not without some surprises, for instance that the Ig went through a major transvestite phase.