Biographers Countries of working life: Ab=Arabia, AG=Ancient Greece, Al=Australia, Am=Armenian, AR=Ancient Rome, Au=Austria, AH=Austria/Hungary, Ca=Canada, En=England, Fl=Finland, Fr=France, Ge=Germany, Id=Indonesia, In=India, Ir=Ireland, Is=Israel, Jp=Japan, Nw=Norway, SA=South Africa, Sc=Scotland, SL=Sierra Leone, So=Somalia, Sp=Spain, Sw=Sweden, TT=Trinidad & Tobago, US=United States, Ve=Venezuela, Wl=Wales
A–G Hermann Abert (Ge, 1871–1927) – Robert Schumann , Niccolò Jommelli , W. A. Mozart Alfred Ainger (En, 1837–1904) – Charles Lamb Ellis Amburn (US, 1933–2018) – Roy Orbison , Buddy Holly , Jack Kerouac , Elizabeth Taylor , Warren Beatty and Janis Joplin Rudolph Angermüller (Ge, 1940–2021) – Antonio Salieri , W. A. Mozart Núria Añó (Sp. born 1973) – Salka Viertel Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830–1918) – Catherine de Bourbon , Élisabeth of France , Marie Leszczyńska , Marie Antoinette , Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême , Septimanie d'Egmont ), Désirée Clary Rosemary Ashton (Sc/En, born 1947) – George Eliot Deborah Baker (US, living) – Allen Ginsberg and Laura Riding Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph (En, 1834–1916) – Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke Jennie M. Bingham (US, 1859–1933) — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury , Charlotte Brontë , Margaret Fuller , Charles Lamb , Briton Rivière Lucie Boissonnas (1839–1877) – Robert E. Lee James Boswell (Sc, 1740–1795) – Samuel Johnson Paula Broadwell (US, born 1972) – David Petraeus Max Brod (AH/Is, 1884–1968) – Franz Kafka Leslie Brody (US, born 1952) – Jessica Mitford Vincent Brome (En, 1910–2004) – various writers Egerton Brydges (En, 1762–1837) – English writers Andrea Cagan (US, living) – Diana Ross Thomas Carlyle (Sc, 1795–1881) – John Sterling and Frederick the Great Robert A. Caro (US, born 1935) – Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson Humphrey Carpenter (En, 1946–2005) – J. R. R. Tolkien , W. H. Auden , Ezra Pound , Evelyn Waugh , Benjamin Britten Robert Runcie and Spike Milligan Virginia Spencer Carr (US, 1929–2012) – Carson McCullers , Paul Bowles and John Dos Passos Charles Castle (En, 1939–2013) – Noël Coward , Joan Crawford , Oliver Messel , Margaret, Duchess of Argyll , La Belle Otero , Richard Tauber George Cavendish (En, 1494 – c. 1562) – Thomas Wolsey Nirad C. Chaudhuri (In, 1897–1999) – Clive of India and Max Müller Ron Chernow (US, born 1949) Na Chokkan (In, born 1977) – Sachin Tendulkar , Dhirubhai Ambani , Charlie Chaplin , Rahul Dravid , Azim Premji , Lakshmi Mittal , Walt Disney etc. in Tamil Vincent Cronin (En, 1924–2011) – Napoleon , Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great Douglas Day (US, 1932–2004) – Malcolm Lowry Thomas DiLorenzo (US, born 1954) – Abraham Lincoln Damon DiMarco (US, born 1971) – Roy Simmons Richard Ellmann (US, 1918–1987) – James Joyce , Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats Alberthiene Endah (Id, living) – Chrisye , Krisdayanti and Raam Punjabi 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 Kitty Ferguson (US, born 1941) – Stephen Hawking William Fitzstephen (En, died 1190) – Thomas Becket Amanda Foreman (En/US, born 1968) – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire Esther G. Frame (US, 1840–1920) – Esther G. Frame Antonia Fraser (En, born 1932) – Mary, Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell Russell Freedman (US, 1929–2018) – Abraham Lincoln Douglas Southall Freeman (US, 1886–1953) – Robert E. Lee and George Washington Leonie Frieda (Sw/En, born 1956) – Catherine de' Medici Jean Overton Fuller (En, 1915–2009) – Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Algernon Charles Swinburne and Sir Francis Bacon Elizabeth Gaskell (En, 1810–1865) – Charlotte Brontë Peter Gay (US, 1923–2015) – Sigmund Freud and W. A. Mozart Gary Giddins (US, born 1948) – Bing Crosby , Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong Martin Gilbert (En, 1936–2015) Winston Churchill Annie Somers Gilchrist (US, 1841–1912) Josef Greiner (Au, c. 1886–1947) – Adolf Hitler Adrian Greenwood (En, 1973–2016) – Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde Peter Guralnick (US, born 1943) – Elvis Presley and Sam Phillips Gamal Abdul Nasir Zakaria (ID, born 1965) – Mohammad Natsir H–M Seppo Heikinheimo (Fl, 1938–1997) – Aarre Merikanto , Oskar Merikanto and Martti Talvela Charles Higham (England/US, 1931–2012) – Errol Flynn , Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn Thomas Jefferson Hogg (En, 1792–1862) – Percy Bysshe Shelley Richard Holmes (England, born 1945) – Mary Shelley , Coleridge , The Age of Wonder Michael Holroyd (En, born 1935) – Lytton Strachey Imogen Holst (En, 1907–1984) – Gustav Holst Marilla Baker Ingalls (US, 1828–1902) – Mah Po Walter Isaacson (US, born 1952) – Benjamin Franklin , Steve Jobs and Henry Kissinger Edward Jablonski (US, 1922–2004) – George Gershwin and Irving Berlin Elizabeth Jenkins (En, 1905–2010) – Jane Austen , Henry Fielding , Lady Caroline Lamb Joseph Lister and Elizabeth I Samuel Johnson (En, 1709–1784) – Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets Ernest Jones (Wl, 1879–1958) – Sigmund Freud Kathleen Jones (EnAl, born 1946) – Katherine Mansfield Landon Jones (US, living) – William Clark Alicia Jurado (Arg, 1922–2011) – William Henry Hudson , Cunninghame Graham , Jorge Luis Borges Shakuntala Karandikar (In, 1931–2018) – Chandrashekhar Agashe Kitty Kelley (US, born 1942) – Frank Sinatra , Elizabeth Taylor and Nancy Reagan Jacqueline Kent (Al, born 1947) – Kenneth Cook , Beatrice Davis , Julia Gillard and Hephzibah Menuhin Harriette A. Keyser (US, 1841–1936) — Henry C. Potter Jennie Ellis Keysor (US, 1860–1945) - Raphael Marvin Kitman (US, 1929–2023) – George Washington and Bill O'Reilly Edward Klein (US, born 1937) – Hillary Clinton Randy Kryn (US, born 1949) — James Bevel Robert Lacey (En, born 1944) – Elizabeth II , Princess Grace , Henry VIII , Henry Ford and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex Jane Lane (En, 1905–1978) – Titus Oates Hermione Lee (En, born 1948) – Edith Wharton , Virginia Woolf Sidney Lee (En, 1856–1926) – Dictionary of National Biography , William Shakespeare and Queen Victoria J. Michael Lennon (US, born 1942) – Norman Mailer Santeri Levas (Fl, 1899–1987) – Clara & Robert Schumann , Jean Sibelius Barbara Levick (En, born 1932) – specialising in Roman emperors Gail Levin (US, born 1948) – Edward Hopper , Judy Chicago and Lee Krasner Roger Lewis (Wl, born 1960) – Anthony Burgess Martha D. Lincoln (US, 1838–1911) — John Wesley Powell Kenneth S. Lynn (US, 1923–2001) – Mark Twain , Charlie Chaplin and Ernest Hemingway Brenda Maddox (US/E, 1932–2019) – Elizabeth Taylor , D. H. Lawrence , Nora Joyce , W. B. Yeats and Rosalind Franklin Norman Mailer (US, 1923–2007) – Marilyn Monroe , Lee Harvey Oswald and Gary Gilmore Koryun (Am, 5th century) – Mesrop Mashtots William Manchester (US, 1922–2004) – Winston Churchill , Douglas MacArthur and John F. Kennedy Cristina Marcano (Ve, born 1960) – Hugo Chávez Bruce Marshall (Sc, 1899–1987) – Wing Commander F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas John Matteson (US, born 1961) – Amos Bronson Alcott , Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller André Maurois (Fr, 1885–1967) – Percy Bysshe Shelley , Lord Byron , Benjamin Disraeli , Victor Hugo , Balzac and Sir Alexander Fleming David McCullough (US, 1933–2022) – Harry S. Truman , John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt Merle Miller (US, 1919–1986) – Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson James McGrath Morris (US, born 1954) – Joseph Pulitzer , Charles Chapin , Ethel Payne , Ernest Hemingway , John Dos Passos Miyoshi Kiyotsura (Jp, 847–918) – Japanese scholar-statesman Ibn al-Qaisarani (Ab, 1056–1113) – medieval Arab biographer of previous medieval biographers Simon Sebag Montefiore (En, born 1965) – Grigory Potemkin and Joseph Stalin Thomas Moore (Ir, 1779–1852) – Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Lord Byron and Lord Edward FitzGerald Jeffrey Morgan (Ca, living) – Alice Cooper and The Stooges Ted Morgan (US, born 1932) – William S. Burroughs , W. Somerset Maugham and Franklin D. Roosevelt Andrew Morton (En, born 1953) – Princess Diana , Monica Lewinsky and Tom Cruise N–Z Ira Nadel (Ca, born 1943) – Leon Uris , David Mamet , Tom Stoppard and Leonard Cohen Alanna Nash (US, born 1950) Nakane Kōtei (Jp, 1839–1913) Philip Nel (US, born 1969) – Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss Cornelius Nepos (AR, 100–24 BC) Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (IN, 1926–2021) Iris Origo (En, 1902–1988) James Parton (US, 1822–1891) – Horace Greeley , Aaron Burr , Andrew Jackson , Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson and Voltaire Hesketh Pearson (En, 1887–1964) F. David Peat (En, 1928–2017) – David Bohm Plutarch (AG, 46–127) H. F. M. Prescott (En, 1896–1972) – Mary I of England ("Bloody Mary") Arnold Rampersad (TT, born 1941) – Langston Hughes Piers Paul Read (En, born 1941) – Alec Guinness James Redpath (US, born En, 1833–1891) – John Brown (abolitionist) E. J. Richmond (US, 1825–1918) – Harriet Hosmer W. Andrew Robinson (En, born 1957) – Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore Romain Rolland (Fr, 1866–1944) – Beethoven , Michelangelo , Leo Tolstoy and Gandhi Henry Salt (En, 1851–1939) – Shelley , Richard Jefferies and Henry David Thoreau Carl Sandburg (US, 1878–1967) – Abraham Lincoln Stacy Schiff (US, born 1961) – United States; Véra Nabokov , Benjamin Franklin , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Cleopatra and the Witches of Salem Anton Schindler (Ge, 1795–1864) – Ludwig van Beethoven Anne Sebba (En, born 1951) – Wallis Simpson Lee Server (US, living) – Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner Miranda Seymour (En, born 1948) – Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace , Hellé Nice , Mary Shelley Kirit Shelat (In, born 1946) – India Dawn Langley Simmons (En, 1937–2000) – Princess Margaret , Margaret Rutherford and Jacqueline Kennedy Roy S. Simmonds (En, 1925–2000) – John Steinbeck , William March and Edward O'Brien Jean Edward Smith (US, 1932–2019) – Ulysses S. Grant , John Marshall and Lucius D. Clay Laura J. Snyder (US, born 1964) – Charles Babbage , John F.W. Herschel , William Whewell , Richard Jones , Johannes Vermeer , Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Oliver Sacks Dava Sobel (US, born 1947) – John Harrison , Sister Maria Celeste , daughter of Galileo, Galileo Maynard Solomon (US, 1930–2020) – Beethoven , W. A. Mozart Leslie Stephen (En, 1832–1904) – Dictionary of National Biography , Samuel Johnson , Alexander Pope , Jonathan Swift George Eliot and Thomas Hobbes Jane Agnes Stewart (US, 1860–1944) — Frances Willard Irving Stone (US, 1903–1989) Lytton Strachey (En, 1880–1932) – eminent Victorians Marshall Terrill (US, born 1963) – Steve McQueen , Elvis Presley , Johnny Cash , Billy Graham , Pete Maravich Bankole Timothy (SL, 1923–1994), Kwame Nkrumah Nick Tosches (US, 1949–2019) – Jerry Lee Lewis , Dean Martin and Sonny Liston Meriol Trevor (En, 1919–2000) – John Henry Newman , Philip Neri , Pope John XXIII , Thomas Arnold and James II of England Henri Troyat (Fr, 1911–2007) – Dostoevsky , Leo Tolstoy , Gogol , Catherine the Great , Peter the Great , Ivan the Terrible , Anton Chekhov , Ivan Turgenev , Maxim Gorky and Rasputin Jenny Uglow (En, born 1947) – Elizabeth Gaskell , William Hogarth , Thomas Bewick and the Lunar Society Rosa Kershaw Walker (US, 1840s–1909) – eminent Americans Blanche Warre-Cornish (En, 1848–1922) – William Thackeray Alison Weir (En, born 1937) – Elizabeth I of England , Eleanor of Aquitane , Mary, Queen of Scots Sam Weller (US) – Ray Bradbury Theodore White (US, 1915–1986) – Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon Alice Willard (US, 1860–1936) – Bertha Baur A. N. Wilson (En, born 1950) – Sir Walter Scott , John Milton , Hilaire Belloc , Leo Tolstoy , C. S. Lewis , Jesus Iris Murdoch and John Betjeman Molly Worthen (US, born 1981) – Charles Hill , American diplomat and Yale professor Marguerite Young (US, 1908–1995) – Eugene V. Debs This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1810 .
The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics is a popular anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861. It was considerably revised, with input from Tennyson, about three decades later. Palgrave excluded all poems by poets then still alive.
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 is an anthology of English poetry, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry for at least a generation. It was published by Oxford University Press in 1900; in its india-paper form it was carried widely around the British Empire and in war as a 'knapsack book'. It sold close to 500,000 copies in its first edition. In 1939, the editor revised it, deleting several poems that he regretted including and adding instead many poems published before 1901 as well as poems published up to 1918. The second edition is now available online.
The Penguin poetry anthologies , published by Penguin Books, have at times played the role of a "third force" in British poetry, less literary than those from Faber and Faber, and less academic than those from Oxford University Press..
The Oxford University Press published a long series of poetry anthologies, dealing in particular with British poetry but not restricted to it, after the success of the Oxford Book of English Verse (1900). The Oxford poetry anthologies are traditionally seen as 'establishment' in attitude, and routinely therefore are subjects of discussion and contention. They have been edited both by well-known poets and by distinguished academics. In the limited perspective of canon -formation, they have mostly been retrospective and well-researched, rather than breaking fresh ground.
The Broadview Anthology of Poetry (ISBN 978-1551110066) is a 1993 poetry anthology compiled by Canadian academics Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones.
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Several anthologies of religious poetry have been published by Oxford University Press.
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance is an 1830 historical novel by Mary Shelley about the life of Perkin Warbeck. The book takes a Yorkist point of view and proceeds from the conceit that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed impostor was indeed Richard of Shrewsbury. Henry VII of England is repeatedly described as a "fiend" who hates Elizabeth of York, his wife and Richard's sister, and the future Henry VIII, mentioned only twice in the novel, is a vile youth who abuses dogs. Her preface establishes that records of the Tower of London, as well as the histories of Edward Hall, Raphael Holinshed, and Francis Bacon, the letters of Sir John Ramsay to Henry VII that are printed in the Appendix to John Pinkerton's History of Scotland establish this as fact. Each chapter opens with a quotation. The entire book is prefaced with a quotation in French by Georges Chastellain and Jean Molinet.
The Wilbur Cross Medal , or Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Alumni Achievement , is an award by the Yale University Graduate School Alumni Association to recognize "...distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service..."
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