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Gail Sheehy
Gail Sheehy (1936-2020)

journalist, biographer

  • University of Vermont, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

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Spirit of survival
Hillary's choice
The man who changed the world
Daring
Gorbachev
Daring: My Passages: A Memoir
Middletown, America
Daring : My Passages
Passages
New passages
The silent passage
Pathfinders
Middletown, America
Character
Understanding men's passages
Sex and the seasoned woman
Hustling: prostitution in our wide open society
Pathfinders, Overcoming the Crises of Adult Life and Finding Your Own Path to Well Being
Passages for men
The silent passage
Transiciones
Power of experience
Speed is of the essence.
Pathfinders
Passages in caregiving
Passages In Caregiving Turning Chaos Into Confidence
Las crisis de la edad adulta
Franchir les obstacles de la vie
Passages in caregiving
Panthermania
Character
Passages in Men's Lives
Hillary's Choice
Discovering the Power of Self Hypnosis
The silent passage
Lovesounds
Lovesounds
New passages
Lovesounds
Silent Passage Menopause
Chun die zai sheng : nü xing er du cheng nian di xin fa xian =
Hillary
The Silent Passage
Passages in Caregiving LP
L' enfant Khmère ou l'instinct de survie
Die neuen Lebensphasen. Wie man aus jedem Alter das Beste machen kann
Passages
Silent Passage
Le choix d'Hillary
Pasaje Silencioso, El
Power of experience
Hustling
Passages Predictable Crises of Adult Lif
Speed is of the essence
Prospero's
AARP Roadmap for the Rest of Your Life
Passages in Caregiving
Passaggi
New passages : mapping your life across time
Fodor's New Passages Premium E
סקס והאישה הבשלה
Pathfinders by Gail Sheehy (1981-09-23)
Las Crisis De LA Edad Adulta
Maʻavarim
Menopouse - Die Stille Oorgang
Leadership
Passages
Hillary
Christopher Andersen
Christopher Andersen (born 1949)

journalist, biographer, editor

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Jack and Jackie
An affair to remember
Barbra
The day Diana died
Sweet Caroline
Diana's boys
Jackie after Jack
The day John died
Bill and Hillary
Madonna Unauthorized
George and Laura
Young Kate
Somewhere in heaven
The new book of people
Jagger unauthorized
Barack and Michelle
After Diana
Citizen Jane
Jackie after Jack
Mick
Michael Jackson
A star, is a star, is a star!
The book of people
Somewhere in heaven
These few precious days
The serpent's tooth
The serpent's tooth
The good son
The book of people
Mick
American Evita
The day John died
The good son
American Evita
The baby boomer's name game
The name game
The name game
Game of crowns
Fast Forward
John Wayne's "the Alamo"
Father, the figure and the force
Jagger Unauthorized
Eva Rovers
Eva Rovers (born 1978)

art historian, biographer

  • Utrecht University

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De eeuwigheid verzameld
Ik kom in opstand, dus wij zijn
Nu het nog kan
De rebelse held
Giovanni Pietro Bellori
Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613-1696)

curator, biographer, painter, librarian, art historian, historian, archaeologist

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Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni
The lives of the modern painters, sculptors, and architects
Vetervm illvstrivm philosophorvm, poetarvm, rhetorvm, et oratorvm imagines
Veterum illustrium philosophorum, poetarum, rhetorum, et oratorum imagines
Vite di Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, e Carlo Maratti
Le vite de' pittori, scultori e architetti moderni
Vita di Pietro Paolo Rubens & Vita di Antonio van Dyck
Veterum illustrium philosophorum, poetarum, rhetorum et oratorum imagines
L'idea del pittore, dello scultore e dell'architetto
Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni
Vita di Michelangelo Merigi da Caravaggio
Vita di Andrea Sacchi
Vita di Francesco di Quesnoy & Vita di Alessandro Algardi
Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni
Vita di Giovanni Lanfranco
Vita di Domenico Fontana
Le vite de pittori, scultori, ed architetti moderni
The lives of Annibale & Agostino Carracci
Descrizzione delle imagini dipinte da Rafaelle D'Urbino
Descrizzione delle imagini dipinnte da Rafaelle d'Urbino nelle Camere del Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano
Veteres arcvs Avgvstorm trivmphis insignes ex reliquiis quæ Romæ adhuc supersunt, cvm imaginibvs trivmphalibvs restitvti, antiqvis nvmmis notisqvae
Le vite de' pittori, scvltori et architetti moderni
Columna Cochlis M. Aurelio Antonino Augusto
Picturae antiquae cryptarum romanarum et sepuleri Nasonum delinaetae et expressae ad archetypa a Petro Sancti Bartholi et Francisco ejus fillio
Le Vite De' Pittori, Scultori Et Architetti Moderni (Documents of Art and Architectural History, Series 1 : Vol 4)
Descrizione delle immagini dipinte da Raffaelle d'Urbino nel Palazzo Vaticano, e nella Farnesina alla Lungara
Picturae antiquae cryptarum Romanarum, et Sepulcri Nasonum
Le pitture antiche del sepolcro de Nasonii nella Via Flaminia
The lives of Annibale and Agostino Carracci
Veteres arcvs Avgvstorm trivmphis insignes es reliquiis quae Romae adhuc supersunt
Picturae antiquae cryptarum romanarum et sepullcri Nasonum
Nota delli musei, librerie, gallerie & ornamenti di statue e pitture né palazzi, nelle case e né giardini di Roma
Veteres arcus Augustorum triumphis insignes ex reliquiis quæ Romæ adhuc supersunt
Le vite de'pittori, scvltori et architetti moderni
Veterum lucernae sepulcrales collectae ex cavernis et specubus subterraneis urbis Romae ... delineatae secundum formas suas a P.S. Bartolio
Vie de Nicolas Poussin
Fragmento vestigii veteris Romae ex lapidibus Farnesianis .
Fragmenta vestigii veteris Romae ex lapidibus farnesianis
Columna Cochlis M. Aurelio Antonino Augusto
Le pitture antiche delle grotte di Roma
Vie de Nicolas Poussin
Ichnographia veteris Romae
Veterum lucernae sepulcrales
Fragmenta vestigii veteris Romae ex lapidus Farnesianis
Le pitture antiche delle grotte di Roma, e del sepolcro de' Nasonj
Descrizione delle immagini dipinte da Raffaelle d'Urbino nel Palazzo Vaticano, e nella Farnesina alla Lungara
L'idea
Descrizzione delle imagini dipinte da Rafaelle d'Urbino nelle camere del Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano
Descrizioni delle immagini dipinte da Raffaello d'Urbino nel Vaticano e di quelle alla Farnesina
Fragmenta vestigii veteris Romae ex lapidibus Farnesianis nunc primum in lucem
Descrizione delle immagini dipinte da Raffaelle d'Urbino nel Palazzo Vaticano, e nella Farnesina alla Lungara
Selecti nummi duo antoniniani
Le pitture antiche del sepolcro de Nasonii nella Via Flaminia
Io
Nota delli musei, librerie, gallerie et ornamenti di statue e pitture ne'palazzi, nelle case, e ne'giardini di Roma
Beschryving Van Oud en Nieuw Rome, Verdeelt in Drie Deelen
Picturae antiquae cryptarum romanarum et sepulcri Nasonum
Descrizione delle Stanze di Raffaello e altri scritti (1695)
Le vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti moderni
Le vite de' pittori, scvltori ed architetti moderni
Ève Curie
Ève Curie (1904-2007)

journalist, pianist, music critic, biographer, diplomat, French resistance fighter, war correspondent

  • Collège Sévigné

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Madame Curie
Madame Curie
Juli fu ren
Kyurī Fujin den
Juli fu ren zhuan
キュリー夫人傳
Journey among warriors
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers--Volume One
Journey among warriors.
Madame Curie
Eine Frau an der Front
Voyage parmi les guerriers
Voyage parmi les guerriers (Journey among warriors) ..
Madame Curie. Eine Biographie
They Speak For A Nation - Letters From France
145, Wall Street
Madame Currie
Vita di Madame Curie
Marii͡a︡ Ki͡u︡ri
Madame curie, a biography by Eve Curie
Madame Curie
Madame Curie
The price of freedom
Journey among warriors
Maria Curie
The price of freedom
Zhan di xing
Madame Curie
They speak for a nation
Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford
Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford (1906-2002)

historian, biographer, aristocrat

  • University of Oxford, Francis Holland School

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The pebbled shore
Victoria R.I
Wellington
Eminent Victorian women
The life of Byron
Queen Victoria
The Queen
The Royal House of Windsor
Wellington
The Queen
Byron's Greece
A pilgrimage of passion
A viceroy's India
The Queen Mother
The pebbled shore
Wellington
Royal throne
Victoria R. I
Wellington
EmminentVictorian women
The Queen Mother
Queen Victoria: born to succeed
Winston Churchill
A Pilgrimage of Passion
Wellington
Byron
Queen Victoria
Elizabeth R
A pilgrimage of passion
WELLINGTON
The royal house of Windsor
Elizabeth R
Elizabeth R
Victoria R.I
Eminent Victorian women
Winston Churchill
Victoria
The pebbled shore
Wellington
The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes
Royal throne
Wellington
Jameson's Raid
Darling Loosy
Wellington, the years of the sword
Points for parents
Queen Victoria
Catholic approaches to modern dilemmas and eternal truths
Victoria, R.I
Images of Chelsea
Poets' corner
Byron
Victoria R.I
Jameson's raid
Wellington and Mrs Arbuthnot
Royal Throne
Wellington, the years of the sword
Victoria R. I. --
Poets' Corner
The Queen Mother
Points for parents
The Pakenham party book
Piety in Queen Victoria's reign
Piety in Queen Victoria's reign
Winston Churchill
Catholic approaches
The Oxford book of royal anecdotes
Wellington
Piety in Queen Victoria's reign
Victoria R. I.
John Torrey Morse
John Torrey Morse (1840-1937)

historian, biographer, politician, lawyer, editing staff, jurist

  • Harvard University

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Abraham Lincoln
Benjamin Franklin
Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Quincy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (The American Statesmen Series)
On becoming Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Thornton Kirkland Lothrop
American statesmen
Abraham Lincoln
John Adams
A treatise on the law of banks and banking
A treatise on the law relating to banks and banking
Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee
The law of arbitration and award
The life of Alexander Hamilton
John Quincey Adams
The Diary Of Gideon Wellers - Vol I
Abraham Lincoln, Volume I
The Life Of Alexander Hamilton V2
Abraham Lincoln, Volume II
John Brown fifty years after
Thomas Sergeant Perry
John Quincy Adams
Famous trials
The Life Of Alexander Hamilton V1
Life And Letters Of Oliver Wendell Holmes V1
Life And Letters Of Oliver Wendell Holmes V2
John Adams (American statesmen)
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson (American statesmen)
Abraham Lincoln (American statesmen)
Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Benjamin Franklin (American statesmen)
Thomas Jefferson
Jesse W. Weik
Jesse W. Weik (1857-1930)

biographer, interviewer

  • DePauw University

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The real Lincoln
Herndon's Lincoln
Weik's history of Putnam County, Indiana
The real Lincoln; a portrait
The Jesse W. Weik collection of Lincoln documents and manuscripts
Lincoln and the Matson negroes
Side-lights on Lincoln
Lincoln as a lawyer
A law student's recollection of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's vote for vice-president in the Philadelphia Convention of 1856
Abraham Lincoln, born February 12, 1809