* His friend Tadeusz Drewnowski published several books about Borowski, including the 1962 biography Ucieczka z kamiennego świata ( Escape from the World of Stone ) and Postal indiscretions: the correspondence of Tadeusz Borowski.

Wood's childhood in Menahga was documented by Bhob Stewart in the illustrated biography, Against the Grain: Mad Artist Wallace Wood ( TwoMorrows Publishing, 2003 ).

The title has been adapted and parodied by many writers including Dylan Thomas in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Ogden Nash in his poem Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man, Joseph Heller in Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, A. M. Klein in his poem Portrait of the Poet as Landscape, Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts ' A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man, Grayson Perry's biography Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, punk band Dillinger Four's song Portrait of the Artist as a Fucking Asshole, and William Eastlake's Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses.

* EAI Artist biography and list of video works.

In 1998, Boyd published Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960, which presents the paintings and tragic biography of a supposed New York-based 1950s abstract expressionist painter named Nat Tate, who actually never existed and was, along with his paintings, a creation of Boyd's.

* David Cairns: Berlioz: The Making of an Artist ( the first volume of his biography of the composer ) ( André Deutsch, 1989 )

* A. Elmore biography ( Artist of the month, July 2009-RA Collections, London )

He is co-author of a 2001 biography of fellow graffiti artist, Dondi White: Dondi White Style Master General: The Life of Graffiti Artist Dondi White.

In June 2006, the first in-depth biography of Vernon was released by Squash Publishing entitled Dai Vernon: A Biography, * Artist * Magician * Muse ( Vol.

In 2005 an unabridged version of his biography of Marc Chagall, Marc Chagall, An Artist From Russia was reprinted and presented in a conference room at the Tretyakov Gallery with Marc Chagall ’ s granddaughters in attendance.

* extensive filmography and biography at the International Artist Database

* Artist biography at Magical-Secrets. com

Of the two, The Life Of Bright is incomparably the better biography.

* The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple -- a biography by Anne Hart

Arguably his most read work is his biography of Anthony the Great entitled Vita Antonii, or Life of Antony.

His biography was written by Saint Athanasius and titled Life of Saint Anthony the Great.

* Samuel Johnson's 1739 biography of him online: Life of Herman Boerhaave

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin ( 2000 )- excellent long scholarly biography excerpt and text search

The Life of Benjamin Franklin the most detailed scholarly biography, with very little interpretation ; 3 volumes appeared before the author's death in 2008

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857.

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.

* The standard biography about Christine de Pizan is Charity Cannon Willard ’ s Christine de Pisan: Her Life and Works ( 1984 ).

The most famous of Einhard's works is his biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, " The Life of Charlemagne " ( c. 817 – 836 ), which provides much direct information about Charlemagne's life and character, written sometime between 817 and 830.

" The news reached readers of The New York Times the next day ; Victor K. McElheny, in researching his biography, " Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution ", found a clipping of a six-paragraph New York Times article written from London and dated 16 May 1953 with the headline " Form of ` Life Unit ' in Cell Is Scanned.

Contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq wrote a literary biography of Lovecraft called H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life.

S. T. Joshi concludes in his biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, that Derleth's claims are " almost certainly fictitious " and that most of Lovecraft's works published in the amateur press are most likely now in the public domain.

* A newer, more extensive biography is H. P. Lovecraft: A Life ( ISBN 0-940884-88-7 ) written by Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi.

The other works that helped fan the Revival flames were Carl Van Doren's The American Novel ( 1921 ), D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature ( 1923 ), Carl Van Vechten's essay in The Double Dealer ( 1922 ), and Lewis Mumford's biography, Herman Melville: A Study of His Life and Vision ( 1929 ).

Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death, Palgrave Macmillan ; biography based partly on his diary from 1923 to 1945 released in recent years from former Soviet archives.

The Life of James Monroe ( 1921 ) 484 pages ; old and barely adequate biography.

In his 1993 biography Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, the journalist Anthony Summers quoted " society divorcee " Susan Rosenstiel as claiming to have seen Hoover engaging in cross-dressing in the 1950s at homosexual parties.

* 2006 The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente and Half Life by Shelley Jackson ; with special recognition for Julie Phillips ' biography of James Tiptree, Jr., James Tiptree, Jr .: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

* In 1999, author Tony Fletcher published a biography of Moon entitled Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon in the United Kingdom.

* The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca ( 1520 ) — Vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca, a short biography.

The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli ( 1963 ), a standard scholarly biography

The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli ( 2 vol 1892 ), good older biography ; online Google edition vol 1 ; online Google edition vol 2

Leslie Howard: A Quite Remarkable Life, a film documentary biography produced by Thomas Hamilton of Repo Films, was shown privately at the NFB Mediatheque, Toronto, Canada in September 2009 for contributors and supporters of the film.

In 2010, Donner's authorized biography You're the Director ... You figure it out: The Life and Films of Richard Donner was published by BearManor Media.

After 2001 this situation was partly rectified: firstly by the feature-length documentary by Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald, Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain ( made by Figment Films in 2002 for British television's Channel 4 ); and secondly by Kevin Jackson's 450-page biography Humphrey Jennings ( Picador, 2004 ).

Ross's documentaries include: Listen To Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman, a biography of the actor and Broadway performer, Not Just Las Vegas, about the rise of nation-wide gambling in the USA, To Russia For Love ( GR Films ), about the Russian Mail-order bride business, and a forthcoming book, on a specific terrible incident, involving this same " Russian Bride Business ".

Twenty years after her death, the author and film historian Simon Sheridan put Millington's life into context in his critically acclaimed biography Come Play with Me: The Life and Films of Mary Millington.