BIOGRAPHEES
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Atlee, Clement. By John Bew. Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee. 2016.
Balanchine, George. By Jennifer Homans. Mr.B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century. 2022.
Bankman-Fried, Sam. By Michael Lewis. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. 2023.
Beatles, The. By Craig Brown. One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time. 2020.
Bonaparte, Napoleon. By Andrew Roberts. Napoleon the Great. 2014.
Brown, Eric ‘Winkle’. By Paul Beaver. Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot. 2023.
Burton, Richard & Taylor, Elizabeth. By Roger Lewis. Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor. 2023.
Burton, Ursula Kuczynski. By Ben Macintyre. Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy. 2020.
Carew, Tom. By Keggie Carew. Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory. 2016.
Churchill, Winston. By Piers Brendon. Churchill’s Bestiary: His Life Through Animals. 2018.
Churchill, Winston. By David Lough. No More Champagne: Churchil and his Money. 2015.
Coates, Dasani. By Andrea Elliott. Invisible Child; Poverty, Survuval and Hope in an American City. 2013.
Colvin, Marie. By Lindsey Hilsum. In Extremis: The Life and Death of Marie Colvin. 2018.
Coudenhove-Kalergi, Richard. By Martyn Bond. Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi. 2021.
de Gaulle, Charles. By Julian Jackson. A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle. 2018.
de Jong, Lien. By Bart van Es. The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found. 2018.
Donne, John. By Katherine Rundell. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. 2023.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. By Alex Christofi. Dostoevsky in Love. 2022.
Eames, Charles & Ray. By Catherine Ince. The World of Charles & Ray Eames. 2015.
Edison, Thomas. By Edmund Morris. 2020.
Edward VII. By Jane Ridley. Bertie: A Life of Edward VII. 2012.
Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonall. By Doireann Ni Ghriofa. A Ghost in the Throat. 2020.
Einstein, Albert. By Walter Isaacson. Einstein: His Life and Universe. 2007.
Elston, Betty. By Laura Cumming. On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons. 2019.
Farage, Nigel. By Michael Crick. One Party After Another: the Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage. 2022.
Finkelstein, Ludwig & Mirjam. By Daniel Finkelstein. Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival. 2023.
Forrest, Betty. By Ferdinand Mount. KIss Myself Goodbye: the Many Lives of Aunt Munca. 2020.
Franklin, Benjamin. By Walter Isacson. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. 2003.
Frayn, Tom. By Michael Frayn. My Father’s Fortune: A Life. 2010.
Friedman, Milton. By Jennifer Burns. Milton Friedmn: The Last Conservative. 2023.
Fuller, Buckminster. By Alec Nevala-Lee. Inventor of the Future: the Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller. 2024.
Greenspan, Alan. By Sebastian Mallaby. The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan. 2016.
Haring, Keith. By Brad Gooch. The Life and Line of Keith Haring. 2024.
Harrison, John. By Dava Sobel. Longitude: The True Story of a Lonely Genius. 1995.
Hawking, Stephen. By Roger Highfield. Genius at Work. 2024.
Hitler, Adolf. By Ian Kershaw. Hitler. 2008.
Hooke, Robert. By Lisa Jardine. The Man who Measured London. 2004.
Houdini, Harry. By Ruth Brandon. The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini. 1994.
Hughes, Ted. By Jonathan Bate. Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life. 2015.
Jenkins, Roy. By John Campbell. Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life. 2014
Jobs, Steve. By Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs. 2011.
Kennan, George. By John Lewis Gaddis. George F.Kennan: An American Life. 2012.
Kennan, George. By Frank Costigliola. Kennan: A Life Between Worlds. 2023.
Lee, Harper. By Casey Cep. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. 2019.
Lincoln, Abraham. By Doris Kearns Goodwin. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. 2005.
Locke, Alain. By Jeffrey Stewart. New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke. 2018.
Louverture, Toussant. By Sudhir Hazareesingh. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussant Louverture. 2019.
Ma, Jack. By Duncan Clark. Alibaba: The House that Jack Built. 2018.
Magellan, Ferdinand. By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan. 2022.
Malcolm X. By Les & Tamara Payne. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. 2020.
Mandela, Nelson. By Richard Stengel. Long Walk to Freedom. 1994.
Mao Tse Tung. By Julia Lovell. Maoism: A Global History. 2019.
Margaret, Princess. By Craig Brown. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret. 2017.
Matar, Jaballa. By Hisham Matar. The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between. 2016.
Maxwell, Robert. By John Preston. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell. 2020.
Monet, Claude. By Jackie Wullschlager. Monet: The Restless Vision. 2023.
Musk, Elon. By Walter Isaacson. Elon Musk. 2023.
Neumann, Adam. By Reeves Wiederman. Billion Dollar Loser: Adam Neumann and WeWork. 2021.
Penn, William. By Andrew Murphy. William Penn: A Life. 2018.
Pilecki, Witold. By Jack Fairweather. Volunteer: The The Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz. 2019.
Plath, Sylvia. By Heather Clark. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. 2020.
Putin, Vladimir. By Philip Short. Putin: His Life and Times. 2022.
Ramsey, Frank. By Cheryl Misak. Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers. 2020.
Roosevelt, Franklin. By Robert Dallek. Franklin D.Roosevelt: A Political Life. 2017.
Sackler Family. By Patrick Radden Keefe. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. 2017.
Schubert, Franz. By Lorraine Byrne Bodley. Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer. 2023.
Schueller, Eugene. By Ruth Brandon. Ugly Beauty: The Ugly Face of the Beauty Business. 2011.
Seacole, Mary. By Helen Rappaport. In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon. 2022.
Sellers, Peter. By Roger Lewis. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. 1995.
Sontag, Susan. By Benjamin Moster. Sontag: Her Life. 2019.
Spinoza, Baruch. By Jonathan Israel. Spinoza, Life and Legacy. 2023.
Stalin, Joseph. By Robert Service. Stalin: A Biography. 2004.
Starmer, Keir. By Tom Baldwin. Keir Starmer: The Biography. 2024.
Stott, Roger. By Rebecca Stott. In the Days of Rain. 2017.
Surrealists, The. By Desmond Morris. The Lives of the Surrealists. 2018.
Szirtes, Laszlo. By George Szirtes. The Photographer at Sixteen. 2019.
Trump, Donald. By Bob Woodward. Fear: Trump in the White House. 2018.
Trump, Donald. By Michael Wolff. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. 2018.
Velasquez. By Laura Cumming. Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez. 2016.
Vermeer. By Philip Steadman. Vermeer’s Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces. 2002.
von Humboldt, Alexander. By Andrea Wulf. The Adventures of Alexander von Humbolt, the Lost Hero of Science. 2019.
von Neumann, John. By Ananyo Bhattacharya. The Man from the Future. 2021.
Vrbo, Rudolf. By Jonathan Freedland. The Escape Artist. 2022.
Wedgwood, Josiah. By Tristram Hunt. The Radical Potter. Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain. 2021.
Wells, H.G. By Claire Tomalin. The Young H.G.Wells: Changing the World. 2021.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By Caroline Fraser. Praire Fires: The American Dreams of Lura Ingalls Wilder. 2017.
Wright, Frank Lloyd. By Paul Hendrickson. Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright. 2019.