His biography on the Swedish king Charles XII ( Karl XII: s levnad ) 1932 is his magnum opus.

* The Swedish socialist leader Ture Nerman ( 1886 – 1969 ) wrote a biography of Joe Hill.

Some propose that he did not in fact have a revelation at all, but rather developed his theological ideas from sources ranging from his father to earlier figures in the history of thought, notably Plotinus. This position was first and most notably taken by the Swedish writer Martin Lamm, who wrote a biography of Swedenborg in 1915, which is still in print.

* Bergquist, Lars, Swedenborg's Secret, ( London, The Swedenborg Society, 2005 ) ISBN 0-85448-143-5, a translation of the Swedish language biography of Swedenborg, Swedenborgs Hemlighet, published in Stockholm in 1999.

Norstedts, Stockholm 2008 ( new biography in Swedish, 600 pages ).

During his life, Stevens authored several other books, including a two-volume biography of Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus and his involvement in the Thirty Years War, praised by The New York Times as showing " extensive research and much patient reading.

He was also a supporter of the Swedish, highly revered, Saint Birgitta ( 1303 – 1373 ), and wrote a biography of her.

Klas Eklund has also published a book on climate change, " Vårt klimat " (" Our Climate ", 2009 ), a biography of former Swedish PM Olof Palme ( 2010, as part of a big history project with biographies of all Swedish Prime Ministers since 1900 ), and a book about China's economic and political development ( 2011 ).

He had previously touched on the subject in his biography of Gustaf Bonde, a Swedish 18th century statesman known for his political memoirs, who was also a pseudo-historian in the Rudbeckian tradition and an alchemist, and in an article on another Swedish alchemist, Fabian Wilhelm af Ekenstam, both from 1997.

In 2006, a Swedish biography entitled " Pelle Lindbergh: Behind the White Mask " was written by Swedish author Thomas Tynander.

Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon is a compact Swedish dictionary of biography first published in 1873-1876 by the physician and antiquarian Herman Hofberg ( 1823-1883 ).

* Short biography ( in Swedish )

There is no written biography on Malaise, but Fredrik Sjöbergs essay named Flugfällan ISBN 91-578-0448-6 ( The Fly Trap, only available in Swedish ) and in German (" Die Fliegenfalle ") contains several chapters with tidbits from the life of Malaise that he has found in different places.

The Swedish Academy biography refers to his " dialectic " prose trilogy Moderna myter (" Modern myths ", 1949 ), Det blå skeppet (" The blue ship ", 1950 ) och Barnabok (" Childbook ", 1952 ) as the " real " beginning of his authorship.

When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.

Renan's 1862 biography of Jesus had denied his divinity, and he had written the " Prayer on the Acropolis " addressed to the goddess Athena.

* Alcott biography on American Transcendentalism Web

* Insecula. com: French language biography and links to pages on works

In all, Steinsaltz has authored some 60 books and hundreds of articles on subjects including Talmud, Jewish mysticism, Jewish philosophy, sociology, historical biography, and philosophy.

The Kite That Won The Revolution, a biography for children that focuses on Franklin's scientific and diplomatic contributions.

William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.

* In 1990, Haley's eldest son, John W. Haley, along with John von Hoëlle wrote Sound and Glory, a biography focusing mostly on Haley's early life and peak career years.

The latest biography of Khmelnytsky by Smoliy and Stepankov, however, challenges the 27 December date and suggests that it is more likely he was born on 9 November ( feast day of St Zenoby ,< ref >

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

* God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church by Caroline Fraser ( 2000 ), a biography of Mary Baker Eddy and a history of the Christian Science church from its founding to the present day, with a detailed section on the " child cases " of the 1980s.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.

According to his biography, A Life Decoded, he was said to never be a terribly engaged student, having Cs and Ds on his eighth-grade report cards.

A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.

In his biography in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Suetonius attests to Domitian's ability to quote the important poets and writers such as Homer or Virgil on appropriate occasions, and describes him as a learned and educated adolescent, with elegant conversation.

Dylan's legacy as the " doomed poet " was cemented with the publication of Brinnin's 1955 biography Dylan Thomas in America, which focusses on his last few years and paints a picture of him as a drunk and a philanderer.

* Erin Brockovich biography on the Biography Channel

*-This comprehensive text on Galois Theory includes a brief biography of Galois himself.

* A short biography on Holistic Numerical Methods Institute

* A brief biography on MathsBank. co. uk

* Fermi's audio biography on University of Chicago website

In his biography of Mountbatten, Philip Ziegler comments on his character:

After Wittgenstein's death, Hayek had intended to write a biography of Wittgenstein and worked on collecting family materials, and he later assisted biographers of Wittgenstein.

For example, all information on the post-Roman " Migrations Period " of European History is compiled under the biography of Attila the Hun.

* Brief biography of Gregorio Allegri on ClassicalNet

Though subtitled " The Life of Lou Gehrig ", the film is less a sports biography than an homage to a heroic and widely loved sports figure whose tragic and premature death touched the entire nation.

Lou and Anne's youngest daughter, Chris, wrote Costello's biography, Lou's On First, in 1981.

His autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen ?, was published in 1999 by Bloomsbury, a collaboration with Victor Bockris, author of a controversial biography of Lou Reed.

* Transformer: The Lou Reed Story, a biography of Lou Reed by Victor Bockris

Though he never hid his sexuality to those he met, he came out publicly in the biography Big Lou by Craig Hamrick, published while Edmonds was in his 70s.