Biographien, Tagebücher, Briefe

There Ain't No Such Word as Can't

David Allyn

David Allyn (Albert DeLella) was raised in the depression years. His father was a French horn player. His mother studied voice as a child in Naples Italy. No doubt a musical family. He was forced ...

Maurice Wilkins: The Third Man of the Double Helix

Maurice Wilkins

British Biography

Carl Rollyson

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 ...

Off in a Cloud of Whaledust

Paul Prestegaard

Paul Gerhard Prestegaard was a die-hard, square-jawed Norwegian, with all the principles and authoritativeness that description summons. He was also a fun- loving family man who lived to tell stor...

Rebecca West and the God That Failed

Carl Rollyson

After completing his biography of Rebecca West in 1995, Carl Rollyson felt bereft. As his wife said, "Rebecca was such good company." He had already embarked on another biography, but Rebe...

The Amazing Life of Ormond McGill

Ormond McGill

Ormond McGill has hypnotised audiences all over the world with his exciting stage shows. Here are some of the secrets of his success. " ... fun-reading and additionally a resource of little-kn...

Corporal Hitler and the Great War 1914-1918

John F Williams

Corporal Hitler and the Great War 1914-1918

John F Williams

Geoffrey Chaucer

G. A. Rudd

Geoffrey Chaucer

G. A. Rudd

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Simon Malpas

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Simon Malpas

101 Things You Didn't Know About Da Vinci

Shana Priwer

Being Jordan

Katie Price

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Mansfield

Geoffrey Sadler

Pope's Daughter

Caroline P. Murphy

Pope's Daughter

Caroline P. Murphy

The Master of Seventh Avenue

Robert D. Parmet

<p><b>The Master of Seventh Avenue</b> is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892—1982), one of the most controversial and influential labor leaders in 20th-century Am...

Talking With Serial Killers 2

Christopher Berry-Dee

Changing Conceptions of National Biography

Keith Thomas