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Randy Shilts
Randy Shilts (1951-1994)

journalist, biographer

  • University of Oregon

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The Mayor of Castro Street
Conduct Unbecoming
And the Band Played on
Mónica Echeverría
Mónica Echeverría (1920-2020)

journalist, biographer, actor

  • University of Chile, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

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Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)

horticulturist, poet, gardener, biographer

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Portrait of a marriage
Saint Joan of Arc
Knole and the Sackvilles
The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe
Dearest Andrew
Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
Sissinghurst
Pepita, danseuse gitane
The eagle and the dove: a study in contrasts, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Therese of Lisieux / V. Sackvillle-West
Andrew Marvel
Aphra Behn, the imcomparable Astrea
The Edwardians
All Passion Spent
Knole, Kent
The heir
Passenger to Teheran
Vita and Harold
Joy of Gardening
Berkeley Castle
The garden
The land
No signposts in the sea
In Your Garden
Daughter of France
The illustrated garden book
The Women's Land Army
Challenge
Selected writings
How does your garden grow?
Twelve days in Persia
English country houses
Heritage
The dragon in shallow waters
Family history
Another world than this ..
Grand canyon
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens
Some flowers
V. Sackville-West's garden book
Consciousness and the Enlightened Body
Duino Elegies
Devil at Westease
Country notes
Hidcote Manor Garden, Gloucestershire
Constantinople
Gaten (Norwegian Edition)
Poems of West & East [by] V. Sackville-West (Mrs. Harold Nicolson)
Solitude
Faces
The Easter party
A note of explanation
The land ; & The garden
Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson
Orchard and vineyard [by] V. Sackville-West
Orchards
Elizabethan portraits
Schloß Chevron. Roman
Los Eduardianos
Toda Pasion Apagada
Even more for your garden
Timgad
More for your garden
Six brilliant English women
Garden Book
Juana de Arco
Chatterton
Joan of Arc
Aus meinem Garten. Einfälle und Ratschläge
The dark island
Grey Wethers
Collected poems
Weg ohne Weiser. Roman
Selected poems
Erloschenes Feuer
Toute Passion Abolie
The death of Noble Godavary
Seducers in Ecuador and Gottfried Künstler
Invitation to cast out care
Correspondance
The old chorister to himself as a boy
Haute Société
V. Sackville-West correspondence and poem
Verführer in Ecuador
Walter de la Mare and The traveller
Twelve days
Le Défi (Littérature étrangère) (French Edition)
Aristokrater
St. Joan of Arc (Born 6 January 1412, Burned as a Heretic 30 May 1431, Canonised as a Saint 16 May 1920)
Thirty clocks strike the hour, and other stories
V Sackville Wests Garden Book
Plus jamais d'invités!
V. Sackville-West's garden book
Journal de Mon Jardin
Adler und taube, eine studie in gegensätzen
Nursery rhymes
King's daughter
Vita Sackville West's Sissinghurst
V. Sackville-West's garden book
Meine Lieblingsblumen
V. Sackville-West
Tale of Mr. Peter Brown
Mes Favorites
Een gelaten leven
Eine Frau unterwegs nach Teheran. Eine Reiseerzählung
Eine Frau von vierzig Jahren
Les deux Thèrése
Une Anglaise en Orient
Dhirubhai Thaker
Dhirubhai Thaker (1918-2014)

literary critic, autobiographer

  • University of Mumbai

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Paramparā ane pragati
Maṇilāla Nabhubhāi
Manilal Dvivedi
Smaraṇamādhurī
Śabdaśrī
Gujarātī sāhityanī vikāsarekhā
Arvācīna Gujarātī sāhityanī vikāsarekhā
Nāṭyakaḷā
Śabda ane saṃskr̥ti
Ūñco parvata, ūṇḍī khīṇa
Vibhāvitam
Śabdanuṃ sakhya
Raṅgamādhurī
Sapharamādhurī
Sudarśana ane Priyaṃvadā
Raṅga kasumbī
Glimpses of Gujarati literature
Rasa ane ruci
Drashṭā ane srashṭā
Ketalaka sahityika vivado
Abhijñāna
Śabdamādhurī
Sāmprata sāhitya
Jñānasudhā, svādhyāya ane sūci
Saṃskāramādhurī
Vikshepa
Samālocaka, svādhyāya ane sūci
Pratibhāva
Meghāṇī smāraka vyākhyāno, eka
Karun̲apraśasti kāvyo
Prasaṅgamādhurī
Keṭalāka sāhityika vivādo
Gujarātī viśvakośa
Gujarātī viśvakośa
Satsaṅgamādhurī
Patramādhurī
Āpaṇāṃ khaṇḍakāvyo
Nāṭyatālīmanā nepathye
David Robinson
David Robinson (born 1930)

film critic, journalist, biographer

  • Lincoln Christ's Hospital School

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Chaplin, the mirror of opinion
Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin, his life and art
Chaplin
Alexander Shiryaev
Chappurin
The history of world cinema
From peep show to palace
Buster Keaton
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
World cinema
Movies of the forties
Robinson's choice
The great funnies
Panorama du cinéma mondial
Movies of the fifties
Footlights
The Illustrated history of the cinema
Movies of the sixties
Harold Lloyd
History of the movies
God's grandeur
Music of the shadows
Encyclopaedia of the magic lantern
The Illustrated history of the cinema
Movies of the silent years
Charles Chaplin, The freak
The Lantern image
Movies of the seventies
Movies of the thirties
Music of the shadows
Hollywood in the twenties
Elizabeth Benger
Elizabeth Benger (1775-1827)

linguist, women's rights activist, biographer, translator

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Memoirs of the life of Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII
Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton
Memoirs of the life of Mary Queen of Scots
Memoirs of Elizabeth Stuart
Poems on the abolition of the slave trade
The heart and the fancy, or, Valsinore
The female geniad; a poem. Inscribed to Mrs. Crespigny. By Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger, of Portsmouth; written at the age of thirteen
The heart and the fancy, or Valsinore. A tale
Poems on the abolition of the slave trade
Memoirs of the life of Anne Boleyn
The female geniad, 1791
The heart and the fancy; or, Valsinore
Poems on the abolition of the slave trade
The heart and the fancy; or, Valsinore
Marian
The heart and the fancy; or, Valsinore
The heart and the fancy; or, Valsinore
Jan van Gool
Jan van Gool (1685-1762)

painter, art historian, drawer, art theorist, biographer

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De nieuwe schouberg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders en schilderessen
De nieuwe schouburg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders en schilderessen
De nieuwe schouburg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders en schilderessen
Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749-1818)

composer, musicologist, music theorist, music historian, biographer, organist

  • University of Göttingen

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Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke
Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke. Reprint der Erstausgabe Leipzig 1802
Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke
Johann Sebastian Bach
Allgemeine Litteratur der Musik, oder, Anleitung zur Kenntniss musikalischer Bücher
Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik
Musikalisch-kritische bibliothek
Life of John Sebastian Bach
Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst, und Werke
Über Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke [von] J.N. Forkel
Sur la vie, l'art et l'oeuvre de Johann Sebastian Bach
Allgemeine Litteratur der Musik
Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke
Ueber die theorie der musik, insofern sie liebhabern und kennern nothwendig und nützlich ist
The Forkel-Hoffmeister & Kühnel correspondence
Musikalischer Almanach für Deutschland
The Forkel-Hoffmeister and Kuhnel Correspondence
Musikalisch-kritische bibliothek
Über Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke
Allgemeine litteratur der musik
Musikalisch-kritische Bibliothek