Can you recommend a good Pope John Paul II biography?

"A Life with Karol: My Forty Year Friendship with the Man Who Would Become Pope" by Stanislaw Dziwisz (presently the Archbishop of Krakow). Cardinal Dziwisz was Pope John Paul's secretary/aide and personal friend for many years.

Also, Pope John Paul II: The Biography by Tad Szulc.

While not exactly a biography, 'Crossing The Threshold Of Hope,' was written by the late Pope John Paul II, & he includes some of his own life experiences in it.

Eg: His youth in Nazi-occupied Poland, etc.

"Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II " by George Weigel. I've not read it, but Mr. Weigel is a prolific Catholic writer and commentator. He is a close friend of my favorite theologian, Fr. Robert Barron; Fr. Barron often speaks very highly of Mr. Weigel and his work.

it is frustrating to overcome "John S" 's answer, in spite of the actuality that i could upload one considered necessary factor to his answer. "John S" says Pope John Paul II "stood up for the concepts of Vatican II". it somewhat is genuine, in spite of the undeniable fact that it may do stable to understand that the outcomes of Vatican II became no longer the liberal bastardization of the Roman Catholic Church that untold liberals positioned forth to break the Church's backbone. If "John S" realizes that, and ability that when he says "the concepts of", then I wholeheartedly consider him. I had an impressive e book on Vatican II, with Pope John Paul II's photograph on the front, yet for the existence of me i can't discover it, yet in that e book it became made extremely clean the version between what Vatican II became somewhat all approximately, and the liberal interpretation and imposition upon the Church. it is likewise actual clean from different textile that the selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI became finished with the very clean information that Cardinal Ratzinger became an intensive adherent to Karol Wojtyla's stable classic thinking with appreciate to the Church. And that adherence to the extra "classic" way of the Church became between the main useful signs and indications of "goodness and righteousness" any Pope would have. God Bless you.