Find Authors
By Background

Discover books where the author's background brings authenticity and depth.

Shape Thumb
Shape Thumb
Shape Thumb
Shape Thumb
Shape Thumb
Shape Thumb
academics who wrote biography
Showing 193-200 out of 1170 results
Claire Messud
Claire Messud (born 1966)

  • Yale University, University of Toronto Schools
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write
When Memory Comes
The Emperor's Children
When the world was steady
Exit Strategies
The emperor's children
The Hunters
The last life
The hunters
The burning girl
Woman Upstairs
The woman upstairs
When the world was steady
When the World Was Steady
Alice Neel
The Emperor's Children
Hunters
The Last Life
The Emperor's Children Emperors
Avant le bouleversement du monde
The empror's children
The Emperor's Children
Burning Girl
PICADOR SHOTS - The Professor's History
La femme d'en haut
Het vorige leven
Los hijos del emperador
Os filhos do imperador
Yalde ha-melekh
Und dazwischen das Meer.
The burning girl
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 1938)

playwright, essayist, philosopher

  • University of Leeds, Makerere University
Birth of a dream weaver
In the house of the interpreter
Dreams in a Time of War
Wrestling with the devil
Detained
The first Walter Rodney memorial lecture
Weep not, child
Caitaani mũtharaba-inĩ
The river between
African Short Stories
A grain of wheat
Writers in politics
Petals of blood
Secret lives, and other stories
Matigari
Wizard of the Crow
Decolonising the Mind
To stir the heart
Perfect Nine
Homecoming
The Black Hermit
Something torn and new
I will marry when I want
Trial of Dedan Kimathi
La revolución vertical
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o speaks
Work
Education for a national culture
Globalectics
Moving the Centre
Njamba Nene and the flying bus
Minutes of Glory
Re-membering Africa
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Mũrogi wa Kagogo
Bhāshā, saṃskr̥ti, aura rāshṭrīya asmitā
Barrel of a pen
Penpoints, gunpoints, and dreams
Njamba Nene's pistol
Black linguistics
The relations between scientific research in the universities and industrial research
In the Name of the Mother
Writing Against Neocolonialism
This time tomorrow
Walter Rodney's Influence on the African Continent
Öze Dönüs
The Language of Languages
民族・歴史・文学
Listening to Ourselves
Heart of a Stranger
Nyoni Nyonia Nyone
The rebels
Rwĩmbo rwa Njũkĩ
Mūrogi wa Kagogo
The wound in the heart
Homecoming
Njamba Nene's pistol
Njamba Nene and the flying bus
Susan Stryker
Susan Stryker (born 1960)

historian, film director, professor, film producer, sociologist

  • University of California, Berkeley, University of Oklahoma
We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Christine Jorgensen
Out of the ordinary
Kiss My Genders
Transgender History (Seal Studies)
Queer pulp
The transgender studies reader
The Transgender Studies Reader 2
Gay by the Bay
Lesbian Pulp
Gay Pulp
The Transgender Issue (Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol 4, No 2, 1998)
Postposttranssexual
The Anti-Coloring Book of Red-Letter Days
Trans/Feminisms
When Monsters Speak
Trans* Studies Now
Casa Susanna
Transgender Studies Reader Remix
Issue of Blackness
Trans -
TSQ
Persona
Youngman
Alessandro Roncaglia
Alessandro Roncaglia (born 1947)

economist

Piero Sraffa
Sraffa
The Wealth of Ideas
WEALTH OF IDEAS: A HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
Economia del petrolio
The international oil market
Sraffa and the theory of prices
La riqueza de las ideas
A brief history of economic thought
Breve historia del pensamiento económico
Income and employment in theory and practice
Petty
Barriers to full employment
Arbeit für alle ist möglich
Intorno all'unità della lingua italiana
Istituzioni e mercato nello sviluppo economico
L'e conomia del petrolio
Sraffa e la teoria dei prezzi
Why the economists got it wrong
Economistas que se equivocan
Market and institutions in economic development
Economisti che sbagliano
La ricchezza delle idee
Alle origini del pensiero economico in Italia
Piero Sraffa
Livio
Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020)

professor, poet, dramaturge

  • University of Cambridge, University of Sussex
The Zea Mexican diary, 7 Sept 1926-7 Sept 1986
The Zea Mexican Diary
Conversations with Nathaniel Mackey
Nanny, Sam Sharpe, and the struggle for people's liberation
Middle passages
Ancestors
Masks
The arrivants
Black + blues
The development of Creole society in Jamaica, 1770-1820
Other exiles
The Arrivants
X/self
Sun poem
Odale's choice
The Development of Creole Society, 1770-1820
Roots
Sun poem
X/Self
History of the voice
Mother poem
LX the Love Axe/l
Roots
DS (2)
Third world poems
Elegguas
The Lazarus Poems
DS (2)
Words need love too
Rights of passage
Dreamstories
The arrivants
Words Need Love Too
Jamaica Poetry
Born to slow horses
The Zea Mexican diary
Odale's choice
Days & nights
Jah music
Afternoon of the status crow
Islands
Elegguas
Contradictory omens
Jamaica poetry, a checklist
Contradictory omens
Sappho Sakyi's meditations
Word making man
Barbados poetry, ?1661-1979
Four plays for primary schools
Rights of passage
Iouanaloa
Rights of Passage
Jamaica poetry:  a checklist
Black & blues
Barabajan Poems 1492-1992
Masks-
Ark
Trench Town rock
Barabajan poems 1492-1992
English in the Caribbean
Islands
DS (2)
Our ancestral heritage
Islands
Rights of passage
Our ancestral heritage
Folk culture of the slaves in Jamaica
National language poetry
Dreamstories
Kumina
Jah music
Folk culture of the slaves in Jamaica
Golokwati
MR (Magical Realism)
Iouanaloa
Liviticus
Gods of the middle passage
Born to Slow Horses
LX Vol. 1
La unidad submarina
The poet and his place in Barbadian culture
Rights of passage
Shar
Third World poems
LX Vol. 2
Creolization
Kamau monograph
People Who Came
Strange Fruit
Los danzantes del tiempo
Kamau monograph
Three Caribbean poets on their work
Ark
Dream rock
Black + blues
Frank Northern Magill
Frank Northern Magill (1907-1997)

encyclopedist, editor, library scientist

  • Columbia University, University of Southern California
Magill's survey of world literature
Magill's survey of American literature
Great Lives from History
Critical survey of long fiction
Critical survey of long fiction
Dictionary of World Biography
Critical Survey of Long Fiction
Critical survey of long fiction
English novel, Conrad to Woolf
Magill's Survey of World Literature
The American presidents
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1982 (Magill's Cinema Annual)
Great Women Writers
Great lives from history
Dictionart of World Biography Set (Dictionary of World Biography)
Magill index to masterplots
Critical survey of literary theory
Great lives from history
Critical survey of long fiction
Notable poets
Great women writers
Great lives from history
Short story writers
Magill index to critical surveys
The Nobel Prize winners
Great lives from history
The Middle Ages
Magill index to Great lives from history
Great lives from history
Cyclopedia of world authors II
Critical survey of poetry
Critical survey of drama
English literature--romanticism to 1945
Critical survey of poetry
Masterplots II
Magill index to critical surveys
Critical survey of poetry
The Ancient World
Great lives from history
Critical survey of long fiction
Critical survey of poetry
Critical survey of short fiction
The Great scientists
Great lives from history
Magill index to masterplots
Dictionary of world biography
Magill index to great lives from history
Great lives from history
Critical survey of long fiction
Critical survey of drama
The Nobel Prize winners
The Nobel Prize winners
Masterplots, 18 Volume Edition
Great Events from History II
Masterplots, Various Editions
Masterpieces of world literature in digest form
Cyclopedia of world authors
Chronology of Twentieth-Century History
Masterplots II
Masterplots, 15 Volume Combined Edition
Magill's Literary Annual, 1986: Essay-Reviews of 200 Outstanding Books Published in the United States During 1985
Magill's Literary Annual 1982
Magill's Literary Annual, 1988
Magill's Literary Annual, 1978
Masterplots II, Poetry Series
Magill's Literary Annual, 1987
Magill's Literary Annual, 1989
Magill's Literary Annual, 1985
Magill's Literary Annual, 1983
Magill's Literary Annual 1984: Essay-Reviews of 200 Outstanding Books Published in the United States During 1983
Masterpieces of Latino literature
Magill's Literary Annual 1979
Masterpieces of Christian literature in summary form
Masterplots II
Survey of Science Fiction Literature/With Bibliographic Supplement
Masterplots cyclopedia of world authors
Cyclopedia of literary characters II
Notable poets
Survey of contemporary literature
Cyclopedia of literary characters
Masterplots Ii/Volumes 7-8-9-10
Magill's survey of cinema--English language films, second series
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1983
Masterplots; combined editions
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1984
Masterplots 1965 annual
1,300 critical evaluations of selected novels and plays
Masterpieces of Catholic literature, in summary form
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1985
Magill's Quotations in Context, First Series
Magill's Survey of Cinema
Critical survey of long fiction
Masterplots 1967 annual
Masterplots II, Poetry Series
Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction
Masterplots 1966 annual
Magill's Cinema Annual 1995
Magill's quotations in context, second series
Masterplots 1968 annual
Masterplots
Masterplots 1969 annual
Critical survey of drama
Masterplots 1971 annual
Masterplots 1970 annual
Magill's Survey of American Literature
Magill's quotations in context
The Nobel Prize winners
Magill's Cinema Annual 1997
American literature, colonial age to 1890
Great events from history
Magill's Literary Annual 1994
The Nobel Prize Winners
Masterplots II
Magill's Literary Annual 1981 (Magill's Literary Annual)
Magill's survey of cinema--English language films, first series
Masterplots 1964 annual
Critical Survey of Short Fiction Authors Pas-Z
Tru - Z. - S. 7793-8507
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1990
Notable Poets
Masterplots II
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1989
Res - Sol. - S. 6385-7072
Magill's Literary Annual 1995
Great Events from History
Masterplots 2 (British & Commonwealth)
Survey of contemporary literature
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1988
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1993
Masterplots cyclopedia of literary characters
Masterplots II, Drama Series
Let - Mid, 4283-497O
Masterpieces of world philosophy in summary form
Critical Survey of Poetry English Language Series
Out - Res. - S. 5693-6384
Masterpieces of World Literature
Magill's Literary Annual, 1993: Essay-Reviews of 200 Outstanding Books Published in the United States During 1992
Masterpieces of Catholic literature
Magill's Literary Annual 1997
Magill's Cinema Annual 1994
I Kn - Let. - S. 3587-4282
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1991
Masterplots: English fiction series
Chronology of twentieth-century history
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1992
Critical survey of long fiction
Gar - I Do. - S. 2863-3586
Magill's survey of cinema, foreign language films
Survey of Science Fiction Literature
A - Bey. - S. 1-688
1994/1994
Masterpieces of world literature
English literature, Middle Ages to 1800
Magill's Cinema Annual 1986
Magill's bibliography of literary criticism
Masterplots II / Drama series
Critical Survey of Literary Theory
Survey of modern fantasy literature
Col - Edg. - S. 1413-2138
Magill's Survey of Science
Critical survey of drama
Magill's Literary Annual 1996
Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form, Series 2
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1987
Masterpieces of women's literature
Masterplots: European fiction series
Masterpieces of American literature
Masterplots
Mid - Out. - S. 4971-5692
Magill books index : all authorized editions, 1949-1980, by title and by author
Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
Magill Index to Masterplots
Masterplots II
Magill's Survey of Cinema English Language Films, First Series, Volume IV (Sca-Z, Indexes)
Cinema
Cyclopedia of world authors
Masterplots 1980 Annual. Grolier's Literary Annual Essay Reviews of 100 Outstanding Books Published in the United States During 1979
Masterplots II
Magill's History Annual, 1983
Great events from history: Ancient and medieval series
Masterplots 1973 annual
American literature, realism to 1945
Christian Spirituality
Great Events From History Volume 4
Masterplots II Women's Literature Series (Masterplots II)
The Renaissance (Dictionary of World Biography Series, Vol 3)
World Philosophy Essay Reviews of 225 Major Works
Magill's Literary Annual, 1992
Masterpieces of world philosophy
Magill's Bibliography of literary criticism
Critical Survey of Drama
*Great events from history
Magill's Literary Annual, 1990 (Magill's Literary Annual)
Masterpieces of world literature
Great Events from History 2
Chronology of twentieth-century history
English Literature
Critical survey of short fiction
Critical Survey of Drama  Vol 5
Masterpieces of Catholic literature in summary form edited by Frank N. Magill with associate editors A. Robert Caponigri [and] Thomas P. Neill
Masterpieces of Christian literature
Magill's history of North America
Science fiction, alien encounter
Critical Survey of Poetry
Magill's survey of science
Great Events From History Volume 2
Magill's Survey of Science Applied Science Series Vol. 6 (Sti-Z) (Applied Science Series, Volume 6)
American novel, Crane to Faulkner
Masterplots II
Great events from history
American novel, Brown to James
Masterplots II
Masterplots 2
Critical Survey of Short Fiction
English novel, Richardson to Hardy
Magill's Literary Annual History and Biography, 1985
American Presidents the Office and the Men
Survey of social science
Magill's Cinema Annual
Great events from history
Masterplots
Great events from history: American series
U.S. Government Leaders
Survey of social science
Great events from history
Psychology Basics
Critical survey of drama
Masterplots 1981 Annual. Grolier's Literary Annual Essay Reviews of 100 Outstanding Books Published in the United States During 1980
Magill's Medical Guide
Magill Books Index
Magill's Literary Annual 1980
American Novel Brown to James (Magill Surveys)
The American presidents : the office and the men
Magill's American film guide
Magill's survey of science
Magill's Survey of Science. : b Applied Science.  n Set.  n 6 vols.
Masterplots II
Contemporary Literary Scene
Masterplots II, # 7.
Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form, Series 4
Masterplots; best Masterplots, 1954-1962
Critical Survey of Drama, Volume 2 - 423-864 Authors -COW-Gua
Magill Index to Great Lives from History: With Additional Citations for the "Principal Personages" Found in Great Events from History
Survey of social science
Buddhism (Magill Bibliographies)
Masterpieces of African-American literature
International Encyclopedia of Psychology
Magill's survey of science
20th Century Go-N
Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Volume 3 (Foreign Language Series, Authors Lax-Sarr)
Magill's Literary Annual History and Biography 1984
International Encyclopedia of Government and Politics
Dictionary of World Biography
The Great Scientists (Grolier Fundamentals of Science Series)
Masterplots II
Magill's history of Europe
17th and 18th Centuries
Magill's survey of science
Literature and Film (Magill Bibliographies)
Masterplots
Magill's survey of science
Twentieth Century Great Athletes
Great Lives from History
Critical Survey of Drama, Volume 5 (English Language Series Authors Shaw - Z)
Cinema great directors
English Literature Middle Ages to 1800 (Magill surveys)
Magill's Survey of Science. Earth Science Series. (Physical Properties of Minerals- Rock Magnetism, Volume 4 1681-2224)
Masterpieces of Christian literature in summary form
English literature, Shakespeare
Masterplots; comprehensive library edition: two thousand and ten plot stories and essay reviews from the world's fine literature
Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Volume 1 (Foreign Language Series, Authors A-Dod)
Psychology basics
Middle Ages
Masterplots: American Fiction Series
Critical survey of short fiction
20th Century O-Z
Masterpieces of Catholic literature in summary form
Chronology of European history, 15,000 B.C. to 1997
Cinema--the novel into film
Masterplots II Women's Literature Series
Great Events from History II
Critical Survey of Drama, Foreign Language Series (Foreign Language)
Masterplots: British Fiction Series
Victorian Political Biography (Magill Bibliographies)
Magill's survey of science
Survey of science fiction literature
Magill's survey of science
Masterpieces of world philosophy in summary form
Great Lives From History American Series Volume 5 Sit-Z
Masterplots II
Masterpieces of world literature in digest form
Critical Survey of Drama  Vol 5
The Nobel Prize winners
Masterplots II
Magill's American film guide
Masterpieces of catholic literature in summary form. Ed. by Frank N. Magill. Associate ed. A. Robert Caponigri, Thomas P. Neill
Masterpieces of World Philosophy
American Novel, Crane to Faulkner
Chronology of Twentieth Century History
20th Century A-GI
Critical survey of mystery and detective fiction
Magill's survey of science
Masterplots 11
Magill's survey of science
Masterplots II. Poetry series
Magill's literary annual, 2007
Magill's cinema annual
Critical Survey of Drama, Volume 3 - Authors Hal-Mas
International Encyclopedia of Sociology
Magill's literary annual, 2006
The Nobel Prize winners
Magill Survey of Science Fiction Literature Volume IV
Great women writers
Religion
International encyclopedia of sociology
Great Lives From History American Series Volume 4 Mic-She
Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Volume 2 (Foreign Language Series Authors Don - Lag)
Great Lives From History American Series Volume 2 Com-Ham
Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Volume 5 (Foreign Language Series Essays, Index)
World Philosophy
Victorian Poetry (Magill Bibliographies)
Masterpieces of World Philosophy
Cyclopedia of world authors
Cinema the Novel into Film
Magill's literary annual, 1980
Magill's survey of science [v. 2]
Magill's American film guide
Critical Survey of Drama, Volume 1  - English Language Series - Authors - A-Con
Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Volume 4 (Foreign Language Series:  Authors Sart-Z)
Magill's Survey of Science Applied Science Series Vol. 4 (Las-Pho) (Applied Science Series, 4)
World philosophy
Masterplots
Masterplots 1966 annual
Magill's quotations n context, second series
Masterplots II
Masterplots
Masterpices of world literature
Masterplots Complete
Survey of science fiction literature
Magill's literary annual, 2008
International Sociology
Masterplots comprehensive library edition
Masterplots II
Critical Survey of Drama, Volume 6 (English Language Series - Essays, Index)
Max Euwe
Max Euwe (1901-1981)

chess player, mathematician, chess official, computer scientist, professor

  • University of Amsterdam
Zoo schaken zij
A guide to chess endings
Strategy & tactics in chess
The road to chess mastery
Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur
Judgement and Planning in Chess
Bobby Fischer--the greatest?
The Development of Chess Style
Feldherrnkunst im Schach
From my chess games, 1920-1937
Veldheerschap op de vierenzestig
The logical approach to chess
Chess master vs. chess master
Meet the Masters
Inleiding tot computer en automatisering
From my games, 1920-1937
Les Échecs - Jugement Et Plan
The middle game
Positiespel en combinatiespel
My Best Games 1920  1937 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)
Bobby Fischer and his predecessors in the world chess championship
Les échecs, tome I
Yesodot ha-miśḥaḳ ha-ʻemdati
Dr. Max Euwe
Het schaakphenomeen José Raoul Capablanca y Graupera, 19 November 1888-8 Maart 1942
Strategii͡a i taktika
Stratgy&tactics Chess
Les échecs, tome II
L'Indispensable aux échecs
Schach-Elite im Kampf
Hastings 1936
Uchebnik shakhmatnoĭ shakhmatnoĭ igry
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013)

journalist, diplomat, literary critic, autobiographer, literary editor, television presenter

Mein Leben
Nachprüfung
Thomas Mann und die Seinen
Thomas Mann and his family
Profile, Bd.3, Hilde Spiel
Deutsche Literatur in West und Ost
Entgegnung. Zur deutschen Literatur der siebziger Jahre
Thomas Bernhard
Mehr als ein Dichter
Lauter Verrisse
Meine Geschichten
Zwischen Diktatur und Literatur
Meine Bilder
Der Fall Heine
Meine Gedichte
Erst leben, dann spielen
Kritik als Beruf
Unser Grass
Günter Grass
und alle Fragen offen
Über Ruhestörer
Wer schreibt, provoziert
Vladimir Nabokov
Auch dort erzählt Deutschland
Herz, Arzt und Literatur
Literarisches Leben in Deutschland
Über Amerikaner
Ungeheuer oben
Wolfgang Koeppen
Max Frisch
Martin Walser
Der romantische Prophet
Aus persönlicher Sicht
Die verkehrte Krone
Ohne Rabatt
Der doppelte Boden
Nichts als Literatur
Vom Tag Gefordert
Zur Literatur der DDR
Verteidigung der Zukunft
Über Literaturkritik
Heine und die Liebe
Goethe noch einmal. Reden und Anmerkungen
Lauter schwierige Patienten
Sieben Wegbereiter
Nachpruefung
Die Anwälte der Literatur
Gesichtete Zeit
Aus pers onlicher Sicht
Entgegnung
Lauter Lobreden
Reden auf Hilde Spiel
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.20
Lauter Verrisse. Mit einem einleitenden Essay
Wir sitzen alle im gleichen Zug
Die Ungeliebten; sieben Emigranten
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.11
Literatur der kleinen Schritte. Deutsche Schriftsteller in den sechziger Jahren
Deutsch literatur in west und ost
Über Hilde Spiel
Notwendige Geschichten 1933-1945
Guenter Grass
Literatur der kleinen Schritte
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.18
Frauen dichten anders. Sonderausgabe. 181 Gedichte mit Interpretationen
Ein Gespräch mit Wolfgang Koeppen
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.19
Ma vie
Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen. Deutsche Gedichte und ihre Interpretationen
Insel Taschenbücher, Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen
Ungeheuer oben. Über Bertolt Brecht
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.24
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.21
Los Abogados De La Literatura
Thomas Mann und die Seinen. ( Literaturwissenschaft)
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.10
Mein Leben. Großdruck
Ueber Ruhestoerer
Wer screibt, provoziert
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.17
The king and his rival
"Lieber Marcel"
Die jüdische Welt von gestern 1860-1938. Text- und Bild- Zeugnisse aus Mitteleuropa
Deutsche Erzaehler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Band 1, Von Joseph Roth bis Hermann Burger
1400 Deutsche Gedichte und ihre Interpretationen. Chronologisch von Walther von der Vogelweide bis Durs Grünbein
In Sachen Boll
Romane von gestern, heute gelesen II. 1918 - 1933
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.23
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.12
Meine Schulzeit im Dritten Reich. Erinnerungen deutscher Schriftsteller
Frankfurter Anthologie 25. Gedichte und Interpretationen
Notwendige Geschichten
Anbruch der Gegenwart; deutsche Geschichten 1900-1918
Mehr als ein Dichter. Über Heinrich Böll
Deutsche Erzähler des 20. Jahrhunderts, Ld, 2 Bde., Von Joseph Roth bis Hermann Burger
Marcel Reich-Ranicki antwortet auf 99 Fragen
Der Kanon
Meine Schulzeit im Dritten Reich
Meine Schulzeit im Dritten Reich
Thomas Mann Y Los Suyos
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.16
Täter und Denker. Profile und Probleme von Cäsar bis Jünger
Joseph Roth
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.7
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.22
Was halten Sie von Thomas Mann?
Más que un poeta
Verteidigung der Zukunft
Deutsche Erzaehler des 20. Jahrhunderts, Band 2, Von Arthur Schnitzler bis Robert Musil
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.1
Kleine Schriften Bd. I Musterung
Deutsche Erzähler des 20. Jahrhunderts