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John George Nicolay
John George Nicolay , 1832-1901, biographer of Lincoln, b. Bavaria. In 1837 he was brought to the United States, and his family settled in Pike co., Ill. He worked on the Pittsfield, Ill., Free Press and was its editor and owner from 1854 to 1856. In 1860 he and his close friend, John Hay, became... Read more |
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Albert Bigelow Paine
Albert Bigelow Paine 1861-1937, American author, b. New Bedford, Mass. He is best remembered as the author of the authorized biography of Mark Twain (3 vol., 1912) and as the editor of Twain's letters (1917). Among his other works are several children's books, including The Hollow Tree and The... Read more |
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Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of National Biography. The brainchild of the publisher George Smith. The work began in 1882 with Sir Leslie Stephen as editor and the last volume appeared in 1900. Supplements and updates have followed and Oxford University Press have commissioned a new edition. The original... Read more |
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Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey (Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880-1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge. He was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group . Strachey is credited with having revolutionized the art of writing biography. In reaction to the copious dull scholarship and the... Read more |
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Archibald Henry Grimke
Archibald Henry Grimké 1849-1930, African-American author and crusader for black advancement, b. near Charleston, S.C. The son of a white father and a slave mother, he was graduated from Lincoln Univ. (B.A., 1870; M.A., 1872) and, with the help of his aunt, Sarah Moore Grimké, from... Read more |
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Barry Cornwall
Barry Cornwall pseud. of Bryan Waller Procter, 1787-1874, English author. His sentimental songs were much in vogue during his lifetime. Included among Cornwall's longer works are Dramatic Scenes (1819) and Mirandola (1821), a tragedy. He enjoyed the friendship of many of the notable men of... Read more |
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John Middleton Murry
John Middleton Murry 1889-1957, English critic and editor. In 1919 he became editor of the Athenaeum and in 1923 founded his own review, the Adelphi, with which he was associated until 1948. He was friendly with many literary personalities, notably T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia... Read more |
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Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe , d. 1438 or afterward, English religious writer, b. King's Lynn. She was the wife of a prominent citizen and the mother of 14 children. Her autobiography, The Book of Margery Kempe (complete ed. 1940; ed. with modern spelling 1944), was known only in small excerpts until 1934, when... Read more |
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Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett , 1892-1969, English novelist. Educated at the Univ. of London, she lived quietly in London for most of her life. She was named a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1967. Ivy Compton-Burnett's unconventional novels of the Edwardian gentry reveal beneath their irony,... Read more |
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Oswald Garrison Villard
Oswald Garrison Villard 1872-1949, American editor and author, b. Wiesbaden, Germany, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1893; M.A., 1896). The son of Henry Villard and the grandson, on his mother's side, of William Lloyd Garrison, he was a lifelong liberal and a pacifist. In 1897 he became an editorial writer... Read more |
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Publishers Scramble To Print Biographies As Her Devotees . . .; Rush to Read...
Mother Teresa devotees...sent their Mother Teresa titles back for...publication of two new biographies. Doubleday's "Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image...HarperSanFrancisco's "Mother ... |
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One Year After Mother Teresa's Death, Kathryn Spink, Authorized Biographer,...
...A year after the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta on September 5...s award-winning "MOTHER TERESA: A Complete Authorized Biography." A year later, the world...mourns the passing of Mother ... |
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The Literator
...pay tributes to Mother Teresa. Collections...religious list is complete without at least...the authorised biography written by Kathryn...years. Mother Teresa agreed to co...pencil." Mother ... |
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BOOK NOTES.(BOOKS)
...Journal-Constitution - Mother Teresa: First, Doubleday...controversial book on Mother Teresa for November, then...publisher rushed ``Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image...Mother Teresa: The ... |
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PLANE CRASH LANDS NUGGETS BROADCASTER ON ROAD TO...
...hard questions.'' * Only Mother Teresa's death stood between Kathryn...publication of her book, Mother Teresa, A Complete Authorized Biography. It's being rushed to bookstores...She's written other ... |
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State education chief offers own recommendations
...Everlasting," by Natalie Babbit * "Because of Winn-Dixie," by Kate DiCamillo Non-fiction: * "Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography," by Kathryn Spink * "All Creatures Great and Small," by James Herriot * "The Buffalo Soldiers... |