The Investor's Shelf — one person
Howard Hughes
Owner of Hughes Tool and Hughes Aircraft; film producer; owner of TWA and much of Las Vegas.
7 biographies about them
Biographies about them 7
The literature is dogged by forgeries and hoaxes; the Barlett and Steele book is the reliable spine.
Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele · 2004 · Reissue of Empire (1979); the definitive investigative biography.
Stephen Fay, Lewis Chester, Magnus Linklater · 1972 · The Clifford Irving forged autobiography, reported as it happened.
Robert Maheu, Richard Hack · 1992 · Insider memoir by the man who ran the Hughes empire day to day.
Charles Higham · 1993 · Sensational and disputed on sourcing, but widely read and still cited.
Peter Harry Brown, Pat H. Broeske · 1996 · Archive-based life; the standard popular biography after Barlett and Steele.
Richard Hack · 2001 · Document-led; some sourcing has been questioned.