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Ivar Eskeland (Nw, 1927–2005) – decorated with the Order of the Falcon and winner of the Bastian Prize for his biographies of Gisle Straume and Snorri Sturluson; Wayne Federman (US, born 1959) – Pete Maravich; Elaine Feinstein (En, 1930–2019) – Marina Tsvetaeva, Pushkin, Ted Hughes; Mary Fels (US, 1863–1953) – Joseph Fels
Maria Eliza Rundell (née Ketelby; 1745 – 16 December 1828) was an English writer.Little is known about most of her life, but in 1805, when she was over 60, she sent an unedited collection of recipes and household advice to John Murray, of whose family—owners of the John Murray publishing house—she was a friend.
Author Title of book Year Aerospace Manfred von Richthofen: The Red Fighter Pilot: 1917 Billy Bishop: Winged Warfare: 1918 James McCudden: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps
Ulysses S. Grant, working on his memoirs in 1885.His Personal Memoirs is considered by historians to be among the best by a U.S. president.. Many presidents of the United States have written autobiographies about their presidencies and/or (some periods of) their life before their time in office.
Biographies of living persons ("BLPs") must be written conservatively and with regard for the subject's privacy. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia , not a tabloid : it is not Wikipedia's job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives; the possibility of harm to living subjects must ...
Free Kdo byl kdo: Czech: Biographies on notable Czech and Slovak people: Free Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950: German: Biographies on notable Austrians Free Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: English Comprehensive 66-volume reference work on notable figures from British history Subscription Dictionary of New Zealand ...
Backbeat (biography) Balm in Gilead (book) Bare-faced Messiah; The Beach Boys and the California Myth; Bearing the Cross; A Beautiful Child; A Beautiful Mind (book) Becoming the Beach Boys, 1961–1963; Behind the Paint; Belles on Their Toes; Belushi: A Biography; Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed; Berlin Embassy; Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud
A notable early collection of biographies of eminent men and women in the United Kingdom was Biographia Britannica (1747–1766) edited by William Oldys. The American biography followed the English model, incorporating Thomas Carlyle's view that biography was a part of history. Carlyle asserted that the lives of great human beings were ...