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Leonard J. Arrington
Leonard J. Arrington (1917-1999)

historian, biographer

  • University of Idaho, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Mothers of the Prophets
Brigham Young
Sunbonnet sisters
Adventures of a church historian
Brigham Young American Moses
The Presidents of the church
From Quaker to Latter-Day Saint
Utah's audacious stockman, Charlie Redd
David Eccles
Saints without halos
Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver
W. W. Clyde
Harold F. Silver
The Mormon experience
Great Basin Kingdom
Japanese Americans, from relocation to redress
Japanese Americans, from relocation to redress
Beet sugar in the West
Building the city of God
Rescue of the 1856 Handcart Companies
The richest hole on earth
Faith Intellect As Partners In Mormon History
The price of prejudice
Reflections of a Mormon Historian
Great Basin Kingdom
Orderville, Utah
The Great Basin Kingdom
The collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon history lectures
The Mormons in Nevada
History of Idaho
The Presidents of the Church
New views of Mormon history
A dependent commonwealth
Orderville, Utah
Faith and Intellect
Tracy Collins Bank & Trust Company : a record of responsibility, 1884-1984
Federally Financed Industrial Plants Constructed in Utah During World War Two
Richest Hole on Earth
Federally-financed industrial plants constructed in Utah during World War II
Faith and intellect as partners in Mormon history
The changing economic structure of the Mountain West
Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures
Great Basin Kingdom
Mothers of the Prophets
Utah, the New Deal and the Depression of the 1930s
Charles C. Rich, Mormon general and Western frontiersman
Mothers of the Prophets
Beet sugar in the West
From wilderness to empire
Graham Farmelo
Graham Farmelo (born 1953)

biographer

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Churchill's Bomb
The strangest man
Churchill's Bomb
It must be beautiful
It Must Be Beautiful
Universe Speaks in Numbers
Der seltsamste Mensch
Museum visitor studies in the 90s
Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
Here And Now
Paul Dirac
Discovering physics
Formulas Elegantes
Eder behar du. Zientzia modernoko ekuazio bikainak
Jerry Stahl
Jerry Stahl (born 1953)

autobiographer

  • The Hill School, Columbia University

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Permanent Midnight
Close to the Bone
OG dad
Los Angeles Diaries
I, Fatty
Perv--a Love Story
Love without
Plainclothes naked
The Nicotine Chronicles
Pain Killers
The Heroin Chronicles Akashic Drug Chronicles
The Hard Drug Chronicles
Happy mutant baby pills
Open City #22
Bad Sex On Speed
Full frontal fiction
Nein, Nein, Nein!
Drug Chronicles
Siempre medianoche
The Heroin Chronicles
Siempre medianoche
Yo, Fatty
If You Died Today
Charles Nicholl
Charles Nicholl (born 1950)

journalist, historian, biographer, singer

  • University of Cambridge

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The reckoning
The lodger
The Lodger Shakespeare
Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
Somebody else
A cup of news
Elizabethan writers
The lodger Shakespeare
Rimbaud En Africa
Leonardo da Vinchi
INTERRUPTED LIVES IN LITERATURE; ED. BY ANDREW MOTION
לאונרדו דה וינצ׳י
Traces Remain
The Sea
The creature in the map
Borderlines
The Chemical Theatre
The Fruit Palace
Screaming In The Castle
Journeys
Leonardo da Vinci
Zones frontières
La Ruta de La Coca
Reckoning
Wild Things
Reckoning 24 Copy Bin
Leonardo. Los Vuelos de La Mente
Anthology
Leonardo da Vinci
Somebody Else
Rimbaud na África
Borderlines
The Fruit Palace
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Untitled
Andrea Wulf
Andrea Wulf (born 1972)

historian, biographer, graphic novelist, opinion journalist

  • Royal College of Art

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The Invention of Nature
Founding Gardeners
Magnificent Rebels
Chasing Venus
The brother gardeners
This Other Eden
Private Jefferson
Magníficos Rebeldes
Psychoanalytische Behandlung Von Kindern und Jugendlichen Mit Angststörungen und Depressionen
Jean-Claude Lamy
Jean-Claude Lamy (born 1941)

journalist, publisher, biographer

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Bernard Buffet
Brassens
Mar Orlan, l'aventurier immobile
Le goût de San Francisco
Prevert, les Freres Amis
Le goût de San Francisco
Comedie des Livres (la)
Dictionnaire des films
Lars von Trier
La belle inconnue
Dictionnaire des films
Alexander Chalmers
Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834)

journalist, biographer

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The General Biographical Dictionary
The General biographical dictionary
Chalmers' biographical dictionary
The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
English translations
A history of the colleges, halls, and public buildings, attached to the University of Oxford
The British essayists
Complete Works of Shakespeare in Eight Volumes
The British essayists
The British essayists
The British essayists
A history of the colleges, halls and public buildings attached to the University of Oxford, includingthe lives of the founders
The British Essayists V45
The Projector: A Collection of Essay, in the Manner of the Spectator, Originally Published ..
The Spectator
Works Of English Poets, From Chaucer To Cowper, The (21 Volumes)
The British essayist
The British Essayists;: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,
The works of the English poets
The British essayists
The British essayists, with prefaces, historical and biographical
Memoirs of John Nichols, Esq., F.S.A., with tributes of respect to his memory
The British essayists
The British essayists
The Spectator
The British essayists
The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
The Projector
The British essayists
A lesson in biography; or, How to write the life of one's friend
Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein (1930-2019)

playwright, translator, poet, biographer

  • University of Cambridge

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Anna of all the Russias
Pushkin
Ted Hughes
Lawrence and the Women
Marina Tsvetayeva
Lawrence's women
A captive lion
It Goes With The Territory Memoirs Of A Poet
Bessie Smith
Ted Hughes
The survivors
The circle
Dark inheritance
The border
The crystal garden
Mother's girl
The Russian Jerusalem
Loving Brecht
All you need
Talking to the Dead
Selected poems
The magic apple tree
The celebrants, and other poems
Badlands
City music
Bride Of Ice New Selected Poems
Collected poems and translations
The glass alembic.
The silent areas
Russian Women Poets
Lady Chatterley's confession
Anna of All the Russias~Elaine Feinstein
Dreamers
Some unease and angels
Gold
Daylight
Je m'appelle Frieda Bloom
The shadow master
Cities
Clinic, Memory
The Amberstone exit
Bride of Ice
Matters of chance
LA Confesion De Lady Chatterley
Portraits
In a green eye
The ecstacy of Dr. Miriam Garner.
Lady Chatterley's confession
The feast of Eurydice
The ecstasy of Dr Miriam Garner
At the edge
Children of the rose
Bessie Smith -Empress of the Blues
Deti Rozy
The crystal garden
Survivors
Russian Jerusalem
Música urbana
Circle
P.E.N. new poetry II
Three Russian poets
Children of the Rose
Anna Ajmátova
AFTER PUSHKIN Versions of the Poems of Sergeevich Pushkin by Contemporary Poets
Talking to the Dead
Yetsiʾat Ambersṭon
Pushkin
Homesickness