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Einstein: His Life and Universe is a non-fiction book authored by American historian and journalist Walter Isaacson.The biographical analysis of Albert Einstein's life and legacy was published by Simon & Schuster in 2007, and it has received a generally positive critical reception from multiple fronts, [1] [2] praise appearing from an official Amazon.com review as well as in publications such ...
Memory of the Camps, as shown by PBS Frontline. Night and Fog, 1955, directed by Alain Resnais, narrated by Michel Bouquet. One Survivor Remembers is a 1995 Oscar-winning documentary (40 minutes) in which Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein describes her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.
Not long afterwards, Huxley wrote his book on widely held spiritual values and ideas, The Perennial Philosophy, which discussed the teachings of renowned mystics of the world. [46] [47] Huxley became a close friend of Remsen Bird, president of Occidental College. He spent much time at the college in the Eagle Rock neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
Published posthumously, The Autobiography of Malcolm X is an account of the life of Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little (1925–1965), who became a human rights activist.. Beginning with his mother's pregnancy, the book describes Malcolm's childhood first in Omaha, Nebraska and then in the area around Lansing and Mason, Michigan, the death of his father under questionable circumstances, and his ...
A literary biography is the biographical exploration of individuals' lives merging historical facts with the conventions of narrative. [ 1] Biographies about artists and writers are sometimes some of the most complicated forms of biography. [ 2] Not only does the author of the biography have to write about the subject of the biography but also ...
1903. The Story of My Life, first published in book form in 1903 is Helen Keller 's autobiography detailing her early life, particularly her experiences with Anne Sullivan. [ 1] Portions of it were adapted by William Gibson for a 1957 Playhouse 90 production, a 1959 Broadway play, a 1962 Hollywood feature film, and the Indian film Black.
An Autobiography. An Autobiography, also known as Toward Freedom (1936), is an autobiographical book written by Jawaharlal Nehru while he was in prison between June 1934 and February 1935, and before he became the first Prime Minister of India . The first edition was published in 1936 by John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd, London, and has since ...
The Biographia Literaria is a critical autobiography by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1817 in two volumes.Its working title was 'Autobiographia Literaria'. The formative influences on the work were William Wordsworth's theory of poetry, the Kantian view of imagination as a shaping power (for which Coleridge later coined the neologism "esemplastic"), various post-Kantian writers ...