During this trip, he further conceived the character of Conan and also wrote the poem " Cimmeria ", much of which echoes specific passages in Plutarch's Lives.

Other noteworthy and famous Greek historians include Plutarch ( 2nd century AD ), who wrote several biographies, the Parallel Lives, in which he wanted to assess the morality of its characters by comparing them in pairs, and Polybius ( 3nd century BC ), who developed Thucydides's method further, becoming one of the most objective historians of classical antiquity.

* For Martin Greenberg's Fantastic Lives: Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers ( Southern Illinois University Press, 1981 ) she wrote " The Expanding Mind ," a memoir of her youth and the impact of science fiction on the mind of a young girl.

Giorgio Vasari in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point.

Anne Rice also wrote of fictional Picts, crafting them into the Taltos for her book series The Lives of the Mayfair Witches.

In 1470 the humanist scholar Bartolomeo Platina wrote in his Lives of the Popes that,

Patrick Garland wrote and directed a play Brief Lives based on Aubrey's work of the same title ; featuring Roy Dotrice in the title role, the production has been performed worldwide since 1969.

From January 2005 to October 2006, he wrote a column for The Onion AV Club about early video games, called " Games of Our Lives.

After the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic in 1985 sparked a new wave of public interest in the disaster he wrote a follow-up book, The Night Lives On ( 1986 ).

* The Greek historian / biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote the On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great and " Life of Alexander " in his " Parallel Lives " series, paired with " Life of Julius Caesar "

Similarly, John Campbell in his Lives of the Chief Justices of England, wrote that Hale was " one of the most pure, the most pious, the most independent, and the most learned " of judges.

Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.

In her 1991 book, Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti, Radha Rajagopal Sloss, the daughter of estranged Krishnamurti associates Rosalind and Desikacharya Rajagopal, wrote of Krishnamurti's relationship with her parents, including a secret affair between Krishnamurti and Rosalind which lasted for many years.

However, Plutarch, who wrote about Eumenes in his series of Parallel Lives, mentions that it was about lodgings, and a flute-player, so perhaps this was an instance of some deeper antagonism breaking out into a quarrel over a triviality.

White wrote in his introduction to The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel, it would be incorrect to conclude that, " because Don Marquis's cockroach was incapable of operating the shift key of a typewriter, nobody else could operate it.

Sir Herbert Croft wrote the life included in Johnson's Lives of the Poets, but the critical remarks are by Johnson.

In light of the death in 2000 of his daughter Paula Yates, his son Christopher Green, now a Canadian resident, wrote the autobiographical perspective Hughie and Paula: The Tangled Lives of Hughie Green and Paula Yates.

He also wrote in 1806 that the following sentence should be inscribed in letters of gold over the door of every State and Court house in the United States: " The Son of Man Came into the World, Not To Destroy Men's Lives, But To Save Them.

Muckraker journalist Jacob Riis wrote in How the Other Half Lives:

As a hanger-on in great houses, he had little time and little inclination for systematic work, and he wrote the " Lives " in the early morning while his hosts were sleeping off the effects of the night before.

Literary critic Edmund Wilson wrote concerning Aubrey in his Foreword to the 1962 edition of Aubrey's Brief Lives published by the University of Oklahoma Press:

Wolfe wrote poetry in the Scots language, as well as the book Scotland Lives: the Quest for Independence, which was published in 1971.

In 1984, Medved wrote Hospital: The Hidden Lives of a Medical Center Staff, which was discussed in Time, on ABC's Nightline, and Good Morning America.

Giorgio Vasari, in Lives of the Most Excellent, Painters, Sculptors and Architects wrote of Lorenzetti's intellectual abilities, saying that his manners " were more those of a gentleman and philosopher than those of an artist.

He wrote " Love Lives ", which serves as a theme song for the Japanese sci-fi movie Space Battleship Yamato.

When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.

He wrote eloquently to William James that impartial history was not only impossible but undesirable.

Schiller later wrote the play William Tell romanticising Swiss independence.

In addition to his battle against moral decay, Alan wrote a work against Islam, Judaism and Christian heretics dedicated to William VIII of Montpellier.

After his arrival, Hasan Ali Shah wrote to Sir William Macnaghten, discussing his plans to seize and govern Herat on behalf of the British.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

Morton wrote the column until 1975 ; it was revived in January 1996 and continues today, written by William Hartston, though the name " By the Way " has been dropped in favour of simply " Beachcomber ".

" However, his looks proved to be an asset in his personal and political relationships, as his law partner William Herndon wrote, " He was not a pretty man by any means, nor was he an ugly one ; he was a homely man, careless of his looks, plain-looking and plain-acting.

Rebuffed by William Thiselton-Dyer, the Director at Kew, because of her gender and her amateur status, Beatrix wrote up her conclusions and submitted a paper On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineae to the Linnean Society in 1897.

William Cowper wrote a popular poem, " Boadicea, an ode ," in 1782.

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

William Shawcross, however, wrote that the US bombing and ground incursion plunged Cambodia into the chaos Sihanouk had worked for years to avoid.

His imposing contemporaries William James and Josiah Royce admired him, and Cassius Jackson Keyser at Columbia and C. K. Ogden wrote about Peirce with respect, but to no immediate effect.

In 1902 William Crossing wrote that he had been told by an old moorman that some of the granite blocks from the tomb's pedestal had also been used to make a clapper bridge across a stream flowing into the River Swincombe near the farm.

The Scottish poet William Soutar also wrote over one hundred American Cinquains ( he labelled them Epigrams ) between 1933 and 1940.

William Stoughton, Mather wrote Wonders of the Invisible World written during the trials and published in 1693.

Whilst awaiting trial, Kidd was confined in the infamous Newgate Prison and wrote several letters to King William requesting clemency.

English had, however, been used as a literary language for centuries before Chaucer's life, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries — John Gower, William Langland, and the Pearl Poet — also wrote major literary works in English.

In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.

Retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili and former Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen opposed the policy in January 2007: " I now believe that if gay men and lesbians served openly in the United States military, they would not undermine the efficacy of the armed forces " Shalikashvili wrote.

William Bright, then editor of Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, wrote of Ethnologue that it " is indispensable for any reference shelf on the languages of the world.

The first published use of the term " evangelical " in English was in 1531 by William Tyndale, who wrote " He exhorteth them to proceed constantly in the evangelical truth.

Sir William Blackstone wrote that felony " comprises every species of crime, which occasioned at common law the forfeiture of lands or goods.

Bacon's personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, however, wrote in his biography of Bacon that his inter-marriage with Alice Barnham was one of " much conjugal love and respect ", mentioning a robe of honour that he gave to her, and which " she wore unto her dying day, being twenty years and more after his death ".