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Biography and Autobiography
BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Though the terms themselves appeared relatively late, "biography" in 1683 (first in English) and "autobiography" in 1789 (in German), writing "lives" 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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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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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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John Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart 1794-1854, Scottish editor, lawyer, literary critic, and biographer; son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott. A major contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, he also was editor of and contributor to the Quarterly Review (1825-53). He became known as "The Scorpion" ... Read more |
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Lynn Whitfield
Lynn Whitfield 1954– Actress Southern Upbringing Acted on NY Stage—West Coast Josephine Baker Biography Scarce Roles for Black Actresses Sources Lynn Whitfield has enjoyed a busy career in film,.... 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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John Galt
John Galt 1779-1839, Scottish novelist. He went to Canada as secretary for the Canada Company, founding there in 1827 the town of Guelph and encouraging Canadian immigration. He wrote poems, blank-verse tragedies, and travel books, but he is known chiefly for his novels of Scottish country life,... Read more |
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Cornelius Nepos
Cornelius Nepos , c.100 BC-c.25 BC, Roman historian. He was an intimate friend of Pomponius Atticus, Cicero, and Catullus. His only extant work is a collection of biographies, mostly from a lost larger work, De viris illustribus [on illustrious men]. The general method was to compare the lives of... 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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Russian literature
...in religious works dating from c.ad 1000. They include biographies of saints, chronicles, hymns and sermons. After the 1600s...was published, however, in works by novelists Alexander Solzhenitsyn (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1962) and Yuri... |
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the modern Russo-Jewish question.(Book review)
...of the book, the author begins with Solzhenitsyn's biography and an attempt to locate Solzhenitsyn on the maps of Russian nationalism and...author then returns to the debate on Solzhenitsyn's characterizations of Jews, before... |
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Cliches in the life of Solzhenitsyn
...him to undertake this biography. He knew the pitfalls. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work is so patently...offering insights of which Solzhenitsyn himself and earlier biographers...second. The KGB files on Solzhenitsyn, accessible only in the... |
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DOING IT HIS WAY A LIFE OF ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN: DISSIDENT, NOVELIST,...
...Archipelago," is a collective biography of hundreds of his fellow...of lives. As a writer, Solzhenitsyn has been most successful...leading Soviet dissident, Solzhenitsyn attracted worldwide admiration...M. Thomas, has taken Solzhenitsyn's eventful life and ... |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life.
...possibly his subject, Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. Neither Mr. Thomas nor Solzhenitsyn is in any doubt about the latter's...claim indeed. This is not an authorised biography; Solzhenitsyn did not even acknowledge Mr. Thomas... |
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Solzhenitsyn: the last prophet.
...respondents: Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. So much has Solzhenitsyn been forgotten, both in...Pearce's recent perceptive biography is "A Soul in Exile...unfairly) stereotyped, it is Solzhenitsyn. On the comparatively rare... |
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The Solzhenitsyn Archipelago
...parameters. In order to deal with Solzhenitsyn - the David who took on the...memoirs, letters, past biographies and publications. Where...neighbors and the first Mrs. Solzhenitsyn. What emerges is a profoundly...and material encompassed by Solzhenitsyn's ... |
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SOLZHENITSYN, CHRIST AND POLITICS.
...dropped for poor ratings. Solzhenitsyn is not the first great writer...about the sort of writer Solzhenitsyn is, and in particular his...the mighty Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn makes clear his conviction...conviction is not proof. A new biography tells us that ... |
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SOLZHENITSYN IGNORED
...voice-over) The biography of Russian pop star...book from Alexander Solzhenitsyn is being passed by...interested in what Solzhenitsyn writes. TOM FOREMAN...Four years ago, Solzhenitsyn came home a hero after... |
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SOLZHENITSYN: A SOUL IN EXILE.(Review)
SOLZHENITSYN: A SOUL IN EXILE. By...including, most recently, biographies of Tolkien, Wilde, and...no doubt that Alexander Solzhenitsyn is one of the great moral...interview granted him by Solzhenitsyn, offers a repeat of familiar... |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in his Life
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in his Life, by D. M. Thomas. There is a level of...direct and sustained tribute to Michael Scammell's powerful 1984 biography, Thomas takes the facts and goes off on flights of fancy and whimsy... |
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