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

This biography depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is synonymous with that of Athanasius as the biographer.

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

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.

According to John Cottrell's biography of Laurence Olivier, however, Anthony Quinn was dismayed and angry when he read that Olivier was getting better reviews for his performance as Henry than Quinn had gotten, claiming that he would never have left the production if he had known that was going to happen.

In 1975 he wrote a biography of Anthony Trollope.

The materials for Linacre's biography are to a large extent contained in the older biographical collections of George Lily ( in Paulus Jovius, Descriptio Britanniae ), John Bale, John Leland and Pits, in Anthony Wood's Athenae Oxonienses and in the Biographia Britannica.

A technical biography is Anthony T. Grafton, Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship, 2 vol.

* Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life is a fictional biography of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess first published in 1964.

* The Untouchable ( 1997 ) by John Banville is a fictionalised biography of Anthony Blunt.

* Anthony Hopkins as George Hayden, Charlie's biography editor

The Dutch aircraft designer Anthony Fokker was heavily involved in this process but the story of his conception, development and installation of a synchronisation device in a period of 48 hours ( first found in an authorised biography of Fokker written in 1929 ) has been shown to be not factual.

* A biography of Sir Anthony St Leger will be found in Athenae Cantabrigienses, by Charles Henry Cooper and Thompson Cooper ( Cambridge, 1858 )

Anthony Nutting's biography of Gamal Abdel-Nasser identifies several factors that led the Egyptian President to send expeditionary forces to Yemen.

On October 14, 2011, FX announced that it picked up the rights to develop a series based on " Scar Tissue ", the biography of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer, Anthony Kiedis.

After his retirement in 2001 Radice, wrote Friends and Rivals, an acclaimed triple biography of three modernisers from an earlier generation — Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey, and Anthony Crosland, arguing that their failure to work more closely together had harmed the modernising cause.

Garth Bardsley went on to write the Anthony Newley biography, Stop the World. Jamie Golding went on to perform the role of Rusty the Steam Engine in Starlight Express in the Starlighthalle production in Bochum, Germany, and in the New Zealand tour production.

* Anthony Byrne MP, Official parliament website biography, retrieved January 2008

* Anthony Byrne MP, Australian Labor Party biography, retrieved January 2008

Another biography, Jerry Orbach, Prince of the City: His Way From The Fantasticks to Law & Order by John Anthony Gilvey, was published on May 1st 2011.

Anthony Boucher's 1950 detective story anthology, Four-and-Twenty-Bloodhounds, paired each story with a brief biography of the detective.

Philip also had at least eighteen illegitimate children by various of his 24 documented mistresses, including: Corneille of Burgundy ( c. 1420-1452 ), captain-general / governor of Luxembourg., killed in the Battle of Basel ( 1452 ); Anthony, bastard of Burgundy, ( 1421-1504 ), lord of La Roche, Sainte-Menehould, Guînes, Lord of Crèvecoeur and Beveren ; David of Burgundy, ( c. 1427-1496 ), bishop of Therouanne and bishop of Utrecht, was a fine amateur artist, and the subject of a biography in 1529 ; Anne of Burgundy ( c. 1435-1508 ), governess of Mary of Burgundy, married Adrian of Borssele and later Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein ; Raphaël of Burgundy, also called Raphaël de Marcatellis, ( c. 1437-1508 ), abbot of the Saint-Bavo Abbey in Gent and the Saint-Peter Abbey in Oudenburg ; Baldwin of Burgundy ( c. 1446-1508 ), Lord of Fallais, Peer, Boudour, Sint-Annaland, Lovendegem, Zomergem en Fromont ; and Philip of Burgundy ( 1464-1524 ), Bishop of Utrecht.

Anthony Meredith's biography of Bennett was published in November 2010.

The author Miranda Carter, in her award-winning 2001 biography of Blunt, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, has a different version of the escape.

* A Morning With Guy Burgess, a dramatic biography by John Morrison, premièred in 2011 by Black Pig Theatre at the Courtyard, Hoxton, London N1

Anthony Burgess called James Joyce " the greatest literary biography of the century.

He has written the biography of Anthony Burgess.

Anthony Burgess: A Life is the title of a biography of the novelist and critic Anthony Burgess ( 1917-93 ) by Roger Lewis.

Nothing Like the Sun is a fictional biography of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess first published in 1964.

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

* 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.

* 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