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ABOUT THE BOOK Angelina Jolie is an American film actress and activist. Daughter of actor Jon Voight, she is almost as well-known her for personal life as she is for her film career and humanitarian work. She has three children with fellow actor Brad Pitt, including a set of twins. The Jolie-Pitt...

Matt Damon is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the drama film Good Will Hunting (1997) from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend and actor Ben Affleck. The pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay...

Would you like to learn more about Tom Petty?How he managed to incorporate his personal problems into the greatest music hits of all time?Music to Tom Petty was not just money and fame. It was a way to express himself through difficult times, challenges and struggles. Somehow he found a way...

Johnny Depp is an American actor, film producer, and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. He rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol. Depp has been nominated for major acting awards, including...

ABOUT THE BOOK Woody Allen is one of the most renowned film directors in American cinema history, and not only because he frequently appears in his own films as an actor. His output as a filmmaker has been prolific: he often churns out a new movie with each passing year, a pace that hasnt...

ABOUT THE BOOK Roseann Teresa ODonnell was born on March 21, 1962 in Commack, New York to Roseann and Edward ODonnell. Her mother was a homemaker, while her father worked as an electrical engineer. ODonnell was the middle child of five children, and though her father did well within his profession,...

Neil Bohr : Discoverer of the Atomic Structure (A Short Biography for Children) Niels Bohr was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and humanitarian whose revolutionary theories on atomic structures helped shape research worldwide. Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography for kids by thinking...

Max Planck : Founder of Quantum Mechanics (A Short Biography for Children) Max Planck was a theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which revolutionized our understanding of atomic and subatomic particles. Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography for kids by...

Avril Lavigne is a Canadian and French singer-songwriter. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, and spent most of her youth in the town of Napanee. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain; by 16, she had signed a two-album recording contract with Arista Records worth more...

Peter Sellers's explosive talent made him a beloved figure in world cinema and continues to attract new audiences. With his darkly comic performances in Dr. Strangelove and Lolita and his outrageously funny appearances as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films, he became one of the most popular...

Maybe you've heard about a little television show called "Game of Thrones"? You know, the fantasy show that's garnered both critical praise and skyrocketing ratings, not to mention rabid fans? Well, like many great cinematic spectacles, "Game of Thrones" began as a series of books, known as...

Selena Marie Gomez is an American actress and singer. Gomez first made her debut appearing as Gianna in Barney & Friends, lasting from 2002 to 2004. This preceeded many roles she would play in film and TV. In 2009, Gomez appeared in the films Princess Protection Program and Wizards of Waverly...

How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka...

Biography of Oliver Cromwell is a concise overview of the Lord Protector. A table of contents is included.