Find Authors
By Background

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

Selected searches: science-fiction by a physicist military fiction by a military officer cyberpunk by a computer scientist historical fiction by a historian science-fiction by a mathematician crime-fiction by a lawyer popular science by a biologist
Shape Thumb
Shape Thumb
Shape Thumb
Shape Thumb
Shape Thumb
Shape Thumb
biographers who wrote biography
Showing 297-304 out of 804 results
Howard Marks
Howard Marks (1945-2016)

actor, autobiographer, drug trafficker, artist

  • University of Oxford, University of London

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

Mr. Nice
Senor Nice
Confessions of an English OpiumEater Vintage Classics
Mr Nice (Signed)
The most important thing illuminated
The most important thing
Networking Windows
Howard Marks' Book Of Dope Stories
Mr. Nice
Memo to Oaktree clients, from Howard Marks
Mastering the market cycle
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin (born 1933)

journalist, biographer

  • University of Cambridge, Hitchin Girls' School

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

The life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft
Katherine Mansfield
The invisible woman
Samuel Pepys
Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
Mrs Jordan's profession
Jane Austen
Mrs. Jordan's profession
The life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft
THOMAS HARDY: THE TIME-TORN MAN
Shelley and his world
Samuel Pepys
The Invisible Woman The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Young Bysshe
Mrs. Jordan's profession
A life of my own
The life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft
Several Strangers
The winter wife
Mrs Jordans Profession IV
Parents & children
THOMAS HARDY
Samuel Pepys
The Invisible Woman
Katherine Mansfield. Eine Lebensgeschichte
The winter wife
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (81112)
J. Paul Getty
J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

art collector, autobiographer, entrepreneur, industrialist, patron of the arts

  • University of Oxford, University of California, Berkeley

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

As I see it
As I see it
How to be rich
The joys of collecting
The golden age
The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections
Ganar Dinero
The joys of collecting
How to be a successful executive
As I See It 27 Fl
Europe in the eighteenth century
My life and fortunes
How To Be Suc Exec
Stuart Christie
Stuart Christie (1946-2020)

linguist, translator, autobiographer, anarchist, politician, publisher

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

Granny Made Me an Anarchist
The Christie file
General Franco Made Me a 'terrorist'
Stefano Della Chaie
The Floodgates of Anarchy
We, the Anarchists!
Arena Two
Life for Anarchy
The Angry Brigade - The Cause and the Case
Anarquismo y lucha de clases
Tina Fey
Tina Fey (born 1970)

television actor, film actor, film producer, voice actor, director, comedian, actor, improviser, librettist, autobiographer, showrunner, television producer

  • University of Virginia, The Second City

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

Bossypants
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
30 Rock
Sisters (Unrated)
Ulrich Bräker
Ulrich Bräker (1735-1798)

autobiographer, diarist

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

The life story and real adventures of the poor man of Toggenburg
Was gehen mich eure Kriege an?
Etwas über William Shakespeares Schauspiele
Chronik Ulrich Bräker
Leben und Schriften Ulrich Bräkers
Das Leben und die Abentheuer des armen Mannes im Tockenburg
Lebensgeschichte und natürliche Ebentheuer des Armen Mannes im Tockenburg
Sämtliche Schriften
Raisonierendes Baurengespräch über das Bücherlesen und den üsserlichen Gottesdienst
Der Arme Mann im Tockenburg
Heriemini, welch eine Freyheit!
Le pauvre homme du Toggenbourg
Werke
Lebensgeschichte und natürliche abentheuer des Armen mannes im Tockenburg (Ulrich Braeker)
Der Arme Mann im Toggenburg
Lebensgeschichte und Abenteuer des armen Mannes im Tockenburg
Lebengeschichte und natürliche Ebenteuer des Armen Mannes im Tockenburg
Lebensgeschichte und natürliche Abenteuer des armen Mannes im Tockenburg
Werke in einem Band
Bräkers Werke in einem Band
Die Gerichtsnacht, oder, Was ihr wollt
Bräkers Werke
Simon Louvish
Simon Louvish (born 1947)

biographer, film producer

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

Man on the Flying Trapeze
Mae West
Monkey business : the lives and legends of the Marx Brothers
Monkey Business
Keystone, the life and clowns of Mack Sennett
Stan and Ollie
Stan and Ollie, the roots of comedy
Chaplin
Cecil B. DeMille
Coffee with Groucho (Coffee with...Series)
Cecil B. DeMille and the golden calf
Mae West
Keystone
The silencer
The resurrections
The days of miracles and wonders
The Silencer
City of Blok
The Cosmic Follies
It's a gift
Last Trump of Avram Blok
What's up God?
Last Trump of Avram Blok
Resurrections from the dustbin of history
The death of Moishe-Ganef
Your Monkey's Schmuck
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy
The therapy of Avram Blok
Stan & Ollie. Las Raices De La Comedia
Man of the Flying Trapeze
Dream of Ages
Coffee with Groucho
Chaplin
La doble vida de Laurel Y Hardy
Stan and Ollie : the Roots of Comedy
Los Hermanos Marx
Juanita Brooks
Juanita Brooks (1898-1989)

historian, biographer

  • Columbia University, Brigham Young University

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

Emma Lee
John Doyle Lee
John Doyle Lee--zealot, pioneer builder, scapegoat
Quicksand and cactus
On the Mormon Frontier
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Jacob Hamblin, Mormon apostle to the Indians
On the ragged edge
Indexes to A Mormon chronicle
The Christmas tree
Dudley Leavitt
George Brooks, artist in stone
Frontier tales; true stories of real people
History of the Jews in Utah and Idaho