* African American Lives, edited by Henry L. Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford University Press, 2004 — more than 600 biographies.

" The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The Statesman and the Fanatic, describing More as " a particularly nasty sadomasochistic pervert ," a line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of Anne Boleyn.

Anne is the subject of two biographies: Elizabeth Norton's Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride and Mary Saaler's Anne of Cleves.

Colm Tóibín used an extensive list of biographies of Henry James and his family for his widely admired 2004 novel, The Master, which is a third person narrative with James as the central character, and deals with specific episodes from his life during the period between 1895 and 1899.

Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes of Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI.

* John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson, eds., Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age, 2002, Tempus Publishing, Ltd, pb., ( ISBN 0-7524-2766-0 ) This is a collection of essays by various specialists, and comprises biographies of Maudslay, Roberts, Napier, Clement, Whitworth, Nasmyth and Muir, as well as an account of the London Engineering Scene at the time of Maudslay, and an account of the firm from the death of Maudslay in 1831 until its demise in 1904.

The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, & C. His leisurely labours as a biographer seem to have grown out of his devotion to angling.

The Henry Martyn Library opened in the Hall in 1898, and there it remained as a small collection of missionary biographies and other books until 1995.

Sandra Henry and Emily Taitz ( Betty Friedan, Fighter for Woman ’ s Rights ) and Susan Taylor Boyd ( Betty Friedan: Voice of Woman ’ s Right, Advocates of Human Rights ), wrote biographies on Friedan ’ s life and works.

He is not to be confused with the son of his older brother Harry Brodribb Irving, the set-designer Laurence Irving, who wrote the highly-regarded and definitive biographies Henry Irving, the Actor and his World and The Successors.

Joseph Allan Nevins ( May 20, 1890-March 5, 1971 ) was an American historian and journalist, renowned for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as President Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller.

The subjects of his biographies include Grover Cleveland, Abram Hewitt, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, John C. Frémont, Herbert Lehman, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry White.

From descriptions of Henry Watkin in biographies of Lafcadio Hearn, Watkin is described as a “ largely self-taught, free-thinking radical ... especially interested in utopian communalism ” ( Jonathan Cott 1991, 34 ).

The trilogy employs an experimental technique, incorporating four narrative modes: fictional narratives telling the life stories of twelve characters ; collages of newspaper clippings and song lyrics labeled " Newsreel "; individually labeled short biographies of public figures of the time such as Woodrow Wilson and Henry Ford and fragments of autobiographical stream of consciousness writing labeled " Camera Eye ".

She is an expert on Surrealism and modern English and French literature, having written biographies of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James.

In 1919, Hendrick began writing biographies, when he was the ghostwriter of Ambassador Morgenthau's Story for Henry Morgenthau, Sr ..

He has also written biographies of Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Martin van Buren, Joseph Smith and Daniel Webster.

He has written biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs.

He also wrote biographies of Samuel Johnson and Henry David Thoreau in the 1940s, altogether completing a dozen volumes of literary biography and theatrical history.

He also published several volumes of poetry, as well as a volume entitled Ecrivains nationaux ( 1874, republished 1889 ), and biographies of the pietist Alexandre Vinet ( 1875 ), of the poet Juste Olivier ( 1879 ) and of the artist Alexandre Calame ( 1883 ).

Curtis wrote biographies of Daniel Webster ( 1870 ) and James Buchanan ( 1883 ) as well as a number of legal treatises.

Her biographies of Edward Irving ( 1862 ) and her cousin Laurence Oliphant ( 1892 ), together with her life of Sheridan in the English Men of Letters series ( 1883 ), show vivacity and a sympathetic touch.

In novels and sometimes other types of books ( for example, biographies ), a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books ( Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, and so on ).

At the age of nine, he and his older brother Peter were sent to a large and one of the best Latin schools in the Netherlands, located at Deventer and owned by the chapter clergy of the Lebuïnuskerk ( St. Lebuin's Church ), though some earlier biographies assert it was a school run by the Brethren of the Common Life.

However, this policy was contentious among the encyclopedists and so some biographies were " hidden " inside articles ; for example, the article on Wolstrope ( Woolsthorpe ), England is almost entirely about the life of Newton.

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.

During the Middle Ages, Saint Jerome was considered the author of all the biographies up until those of Pope Damasus I ( 366 – 383 ), based on an apocryphal letter between Saint Jerome and Pope Damasus published as a preface to the Medieval manuscripts.

Duchesne and others have viewed the beginning of the Liber Pontificalis up until the biographies of Pope Felix III ( 483 – 492 ) as the work of a single author, who was a contemporary of Pope Anastasius II ( 496-498 ), relying on Catalogus Liberianus, which in turn draws from the papal catalogue of Hippolytus of Rome, and the Leonine Catalogue, which is no longer extant.

Guillermi's version is mostly copied from other works with small additions or excisions from the papal biographies of Pandulf, nephew of Hugo of Alatri, which in turn was copied almost verbatim from the original Liber Pontificalis ( with the notable exception of the biography of Pope Leo IX ), then from other sources until Pope Honorius II ( 1124 – 1130 ), and with contemporary information from Pope Paschal II ( 1099 – 1118 to Pope Urban II ( 1088 – 1099 ).

Early in the 14th century, an unknown author built upon the continuation of Petrus Guillermi, adding the biographies of popes Martin IV ( d. 1285 ) through John XXII ( 1316 – 1334 ), with information taken from the " Chronicon Pontificum " of Bernardus Guidonis, stopping abruptly in 1328.

An independent continuation appeared in the reign of Pope Eugene IV ( 1431 – 1447 ), appending biographies from Pope Urban V ( 1362 – 1370 ) to Pope Martin V ( 1417 – 1431 ), encompassing the period of the Western Schism.

According to biographies preserved by Ibn al-Nadim and the Persian polymath al-Biruni, he allegedly received a revelation as a youth from a spirit, whom he would later call his Twin ( Aramaic Tauma ( תאומא ), from which is also derived the name of the apostle Thomas, the " twin "), his Syzygos ( Greek for " partner ", in the Cologne Mani-Codex ), his Double, his Protective Angel or ' Divine Self '.

The later biographies and the biographies of subordinate emperors and usurpers are a tissue of lies and fiction, but the earlier biographies, derived primarily from now-lost earlier sources ( Marius Maximus or Ignotus ), are much better.

The details of Saint Matilda's life come largely from brief mentions in the Res gestae saxonicae of the monastic historian Widukind of Corvey ( c. 925 – 973 ), and from two sacred biographies ( the vita antiquior and vita posterior ) written, respectively, circa 974 and circa 1003.

Encompassing more than 1, 300 pages ( including 1, 150 pages of text ), the work countered earlier biographies such as Albert Goldman's Elvis from 1981 with an in-depth, scholarly examination of Presley's life and music.

Lastly, the work of Célestin Port, Dictionnaire historique, géographique et biographique de Maine-et-Loire ( 3 vols., Paris and Angers, 1874 – 1878 ), and its small volume of Préliminaires ( including a summary of the history of Anjou ), contain, in addition to the biographies of the chief counts of Anjou, a mass of information concerning everything connected with Angevin history.

Braddon also founded Belgravia magazine ( 1866 ), which presented readers with serialised sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history and science.

Of his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ), a bestselling book since its publication, and called " the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century.

The principal surviving literary sources are Dio Cassius ( a contemporary and sometimes first-hand observer, but for this reign, only transmitted in fragments and abbreviations ), Herodian and the Historia Augusta ( untrustworthy for its character as a work of literature rather than history, with elements of fiction embedded within its biographies ; in the case of Commodus, it may well be embroidering upon what the author found in reasonably good contemporary sources ).

Narratives derived from hadith involving these verses can be read in, among other places, the biographies of Muhammad by al-Wāqidī, Ibn Sa'd ( who was a scribe of Waqidi ), al-Tabarī, and Ibn Ishaq ( the last as reconstructed by Alfred Guillaume ).

Later biographies are critical of Brinnin's view, especially his coverage of Thomas ' death.

Other writers, such as Lynn Bloom and Thomas Maier, have written biographies of Spock.

The Brief Lives includes biographies of such figures as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, John Dee, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Halley, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, and William Shakespeare.

There are two modern biographies, Itinerant Ambassador: the Life of Sir Thomas Roe by Michael J.

Senior faculty member Thomas DiLorenzo, in his critical biographies The Real Lincoln and Lincoln: Unmasked, argues that the sixteenth president substantially expanded the size and powers of the federal government at the expense of individual liberty.

He also wrote a number of biographies of a diverse range of historical figures, including: Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Sigmund Freud, J. B. S.

He issued a life of Wilson in 1828 and published biographies of his fellow naturalists Thomas Say ( 1834 ) and Charles Alexandre Lesueur ( 1849 ).

Biographies of Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy can be found in his office, next to biographies of Joseph Stalin and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and books on war.

But the standard biographies of Ken are those of J. Lavicount Anderdon ( The Life of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, by a Layman, 1851 ; 2nd ed., 1854 ) and of Dean Plumptre ( 2 vols., 1888 ; revised, 1890 ).

She also wrote biographies of Josiah Willard Gibbs, Wendell Wilkie, and Thomas Hariot.

In addition to his works of science fiction, he is the author of a number of non-genre historical novels and several biographies of early American political figures, most notably his two volume work on Thomas Jefferson.

He wrote full biographies of two chroniclers of Louis XI, one very obscure, Jean Castel, the other, Thomas Basin, bishop of Lisieux, who was, on the contrary, a remarkable politician, prelate and chronicler.

Altertums ( 1886 ), and biographies of Thomas Bradwardine ( 1862 ) and Robert Grosseteste ( 1867 ).

Thomas Balston then wrote two biographies on the artist, the first in 1934, and the second ( still the leading biography ) in 1947.

He wrote over thirty books, including well received biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Wolfe and Charles Sumner.

" In addition, he wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of politician Charles Sumner and writer Thomas Wolfe.

biographies of Thomas Carlyle, John Milton, William Blake, and others ; The Age of Dryden ( 1895 ); a History of Italian Literature ; English Literature: An Illustrated Record ( with Edmund Gosse ); and many articles for encyclopaedias and the Dictionary of National Biography.

He began as one of the most promising of Anglophone post-war poets, but became better known as a critic, writing biographies of Robert Graves ( whom he met first at age 14 and maintained close ties with ), Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy, and producing numerous critical studies.

As well as his picturesque writing, Gilpin published numerous works on moral and religious subjects, including biographies of Hugh Latimer, Thomas Cranmer and John Wicliff.

Heffer has written biographies of the historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, and of the politician Enoch Powell ( Like the Roman ), which was described by The New Statesman as " a lucid and majestic tribute " to the politician.

He wrote several biographies, including ones of Langston Hughes and Thomas Jefferson, and though most of his books are nonfiction, he wrote at least one historical novel, The Underground Man, about a white abolitionist in the 1800s United States who is imprisoned for helping escaped slaves.

She published biographies of Wilfred Scawen Blunt in 1938 and M. Carey Thomas, a president of Bryn Mawr, in 1947.