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Cover of A Companion to Literary Biography
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018

An authoritative review of literary biography covering the seventeenth century to the twentieth century A Companion to Literary Biography offers a comprehensive account of literary biography spanning the history of the genre across three centuries. The editor – an esteemed literary biographer...
Cover of The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
by Judith Brett
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017

Alfred Deakin—scholar, spiritualist, prime minister—was instrumental in creating modern Australia. In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, the acclaimed political historian Judith Brett deftly weaves together his public, private and family lives. She brings out from behind...
Cover of British Biography
by Carl Rollyson
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005

Biography as a literary genre is largely the product of the eighteenth century and of one seminal work, James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). Boswell's innovations revolutionized the genre and made it the target of suppression and censorship. He sought not only to memorialize a great man...
Cover of Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning
by Thomas Neville Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), raised in Louisville, Kentucky in a family of poor Jewish immigrants from Germany, attended the Johns Hopkins University in the first decade of its existence. After graduating in 1886, he founded, four years before John Dewey’s Chicago “laboratory school,” a progressive...
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Auto/biography in Canada

Critical Directions

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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009

Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres with...
Cover of Rodin: A Biography
by Frederic V. Grunfeld
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was not only the world’s greatest sculptor, known for such works as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God, and dozens of others, but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times: an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished...
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Biography

An Annotated Bibliography

by Carl Rollyson
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

This is the only comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writing about biography. Rollyson, a biographer and scholar of biography, includes chapters on the history of biography (beginning in the Greco-Roman period and concluding with biographers such as Leon Edel and Richard Ellmann). Ample sections...
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John von Neumann

The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More

by Norman Macrae
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016

John von Neumann was a Jewish refugee from Hungary considered a “genius” like fellow Hungarians Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller, who played key roles developing the A-bomb at Los Alamos during World War II. As a mathematician at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study (where Einstein...
Cover of Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew
by Dietrich Stoltzenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015

This biography of Fritz Haber, now abridged by the author and translated into English, illuminates the life of one of the most gifted yet controversial figures of the twentieth century. Haber, a brilliant physical chemist, carried out pioneering research in electrochemistry and thermodynamics and...
Cover of Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes
by Sheldon M. Novick
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Sheldon Novick (with a new preface by the author; 178,000 words, 25 illustrations) Oliver Wendell Holmes is widely regarded as America’s greatest judge. Generations of law students have been and continue to be inspired by his passionate...
Cover of Sakharov: A Biography
by Richard Lourie
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018

Seemingly shy, Andrei Sakharov was in fact a man of three great passions. His passion for physics ultimately lead him to create the Soviet H-Bomb, making the USSR a super power. But he rejected all the position and prestige his inventions had brought him in the name of a greater passion — for justice....
Cover of Julius Caesar (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014

This carefully crafted ebook: “Julius Caesar (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Written around 1599, Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play is based...
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Washington

A Life

by Ron Chernow
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010

A gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical. Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president...
Cover of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
by John Lahr
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014

**National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Biography Category National Book Award Finalist 2015 Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' USA Today: 10 Books We Loved Reading Washington...
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