Biography category: 101305 books
Self Impression
Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.' Paul Valéry, Moi. Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and...
by Merritt Abrash
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
This biography of George Stubbs, leading eighteenth century English animal painter, is "imagined", because virtually nothing is known of his character or private life. Historian Merritt Abrash has combined his knowledge of eighteenth century Great Britain with the facts of Stubbs' artistic...
by Thomas Carlyle
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Thomas Carlyle undertook this biography of his friend, the British author John Sterling (1806–1844), because he was so dissatisfied with an earlier biography of Sterling by Julius Charles Hare. Sterling was an ordained curate at Hurstmonceux, but retired and began writing. His highest literary achievements...
Montgomery Clift
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
At the peak of his career in the 1950s, Montgomery Clift was the symbol of a very talented yet rebellious generation of movie stars. His acting combined the personal and the professional, and his seventeen movies show his superb craft and extraordinary sensitivity. Yet there was much more to his life...
Roads Not Taken
An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
A journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt (1891–1967) negotiated with Lenin and Stalin, Churchill and de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek and Goering. He took part in the talks that ended World War I and those that failed to prevent World War II. While his former disciples led American...
by Michael Broers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Written with great energy and authority—and using the newly available personal archives of Napoleon himself—the first volume of a majestic two-part biography of the great French emperor and conqueror.
All previous lives of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own...
Gandhi
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
The Internationally Acclaimed Biography of One of History’s Monumental Figures Gandhi: A Life The first biography of this important figure in over twenty years, Gandhi: A Life rescues the man from the myth, revealing the transformation of an ordinary, timid young man into a leader whose stand against...
by Peter Dally
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Elizabeth Barrett Browning has been portrayed as a helpless invalid, the captive of a despotic, even incestuous, father, awaiting rescue by her knight errant: Robert Browning. However, Elizabeth was far from helpless. She was a determined woman who nearly always got her own way, through a combination...
MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies
The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author's Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This collection of travel books, essays, speeches, letters and autobiographical writings illustrates the other side of the man known as Mark Twain. Travel Books The Innocents Abroad Roughing It Old Times on the Mississippi A Tramp Abroad Life on the Mississippi Following the Equator: A Journey Around...
And Bid Him Sing
A Biography of Countée Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
While competing with Langston Hughes for the title of “Poet Laureate of Harlem,” Countée Cullen (1903–46) crafted poems that became touchstones for American readers, both black and white. Inspired by classic themes and working within traditional forms, Cullen shaped his poetry to address universal...
Joseph Pike
The Happy Catholic Artist
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
First biography of the remarkable and hugely admired artist, Joseph Pike.
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Author aided by artist’s family including his grandson, Hugh Salmon, (founder of www.Lovereading.co.uk), giving access to personal details and illustrations.
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Joseph Pike has been described...
by Louise Ford
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
He was known as The Golden Torso, the underwear model who famously dated Keira Knightley. But Jamie Dornan has always dreamed of being an actor - and as star of the hotly-anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey movie he has finally sealed his position in Hollywood. From his role as S&M hero Christian...
Buffy Sainte-Marie
The Authorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary—an authorized insight into the making of a legend." —Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries
A powerful, intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist.
Folk hero. Songwriter icon....
Jimmy Reid
A Scottish Political Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Jimmy Reid’s funeral in 2010 was attended by Gordon Brown the former Prime Minister, Alex Salmond the First Minister and other leading politicians. Eulogies were given by his friends Sir Alex Ferguson and Billy Connolly. Crowds lined the streets for the funeral cortege. The Daily Telegraph described...