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Mikal Gilmore
Mikal Gilmore (born 1951)

journalist, biographer, music journalist

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Shot in the heart
Night Beat
Stories done
Disparo Al Corazon (Literatura Y Memoria)
Shot in the Heart (Audio)
History of Joseph Smith
Nae simjang ŭl hyanghae sswara
Strzał w serce
Night Beat a Shadow History of Rock
Winding Road
A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles (born 1952)

journalist, biographer

  • Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Radcliffe College

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Madam C.J. Walker
On her own ground
On Her Own Ground
All about Madam C. J. Walker
Madam Walker Theatre Center
Self Made
Madam C.J. Walker (Black Americans of Achievement)
Madam Walker Theatre Center
Madame Walker Theatre Center
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born 1930)

air force officer, fighter pilot, astronaut, autobiographer, engineer, businessperson

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Military Academy

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Reaching for the Moon
Magnificent Desolation
No dream is too high
The return
Encounter with Tiber
First on the moon
Mission to Mars
Men from earth
Guinness World Records 2017
Look to the stars
Welcome to Mars
Return to earth
Reaching for the Moon
Buzz Aldrin Reaching for the Moon
Return to earth
Return to Earth
Paper astronaut
Men From Earth
Return to Earth
Space Atlas
The Everyday Space Traveler Discover 9 Lifeaffirming Insights Into The Wonders Of Inner And Outer Space
To the Moon and Back
Return
Men from Earth-19.95
The Wright Stuff
Men from Earth
Investing in Our Future
Galileo for Kids
Space 2.0 Lib/E
Guinness Dünya Rekorlar Kitabi 2017
Die Rückkehr.
NASA
Space Encyclopedia
Space 2. 0
Beyond Flagpoles and Footprints
Return to Earth
David Thomson
David Thomson (born 1941)

journalist, biographer, film critic, performing artist, film scholar, actor, opinion journalist, critic

  • Dulwich College

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Biographical dictionary of the cinema
Overexposures
Bette Davis
Try to tell the story
Nicole Kidman
The new biographical dictionary of film
Showman
Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes
Gary Cooper
Wild excursions
Warner Bros
Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
The new biographical dictionary of film
Warren Beatty
Marlon Brando
Rosebud
Rosebud
The new biographical dictionary of film
Try to Tell the Story (Vintage)
A biographical dictionary of film
Silver light
Suspects
The whole equation
In Nevada
Hollywood
Scott, Shackleton, and Amundsen
Beneath Mulholland
Scott's men
The big screen
How to watch a movie
America in the dark
The big sleep
IN NEVADA
Hungry as hunters
Television
Movie man
The moment of Psycho
Why acting matters
A bowl of eggs
The big screen
The moment of Psycho
EXCERPTS FROM "MOVIE MAN"
Moments that made the movies
The moment of Psycho
Marie Bashkirtseva
Marie Bashkirtseva (1860-1884)

painter, sculptor, diarist, biographer, artist

  • Académie Julian

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Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff
Dnevnik
Lettres de Marie Bashkirtseff
I am the most interesting book of all
The new journal of Marie Bashkirtseff
Letters of Marie Bashkirtseff
The further memoirs of Marie Bashkirtseff
The last confessions of Marie Bashkirtseff and her correspondence with Guy de Maupassant
Nouveau journal inédit
Lettres de Marie Bashkirtseff
Correspondance
Nouveau journal inédit de Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff
Journal
Cahiers intimes inédits
Letters of Marie Bashkirtseva
Mon journal
The journal of a young artist, 1860-1884
Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff, avec un portrait
Letters of Marie Bashirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood)
Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff (Vol 1)
Izbrannit︠s︡a sudʹby Marii︠a︡ Bashkirt︠s︡eva
Catalogue des oeuvres de Mlle. Bashkirtseff
The further memoirs of Marie Bashkirtseff
Confessions
Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff
Marii͡a Bashkyrt͡seva
The journal of Marie Bashkirtseff
Nouveau journal inedit de Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff
Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff
Journal de Madame Bashkirtseff
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp (1908-1999)

actor, graphic designer, autobiographer, socialite, model, stage actor, film actor, television actor

  • King's College London, Denstone College

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The naked civil servant
How to become a virgin
The naked civil servant
The witand wisdom of Quentin Crisp
Naked Civil Servant
How to go to the movies
Chog
Resident alien
Love made easy
The wit and wisdom of Quentin Crisp
Doing it with style
Manners from heaven
How to have a life-style
Chog, a Gothic fantasy
The Gay and Lesbian Quotation Book
Manners from Heaven
Chog, a Gothic fable
Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations
All this and Bevin too
Resident Alien; The New York Diaries
Colour in display
How to Become a Virgin
Strange Tales: v. 2
Manners from Heaven
The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien
Quentin Crisp's book of quotations
Among Friends
And One More Thing
Lettering for Brush and Pen
Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee (1914-1997)

poet, autobiographer, journalist

  • Marling School

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Cider with Rosie
As I walked out one midsummer morning
A moment of war
The illustrated Cider with Rosie
I can't stay long
Red Sky at Sunrise
Cider with Rosie
Two women
Cider with Rosie & As i walked out one summer morning
A rose for winter
Rosie ou le Goût du cidre
The firstborn
The sun my monument
Selected poems
The Laurie Lee Collection
Des Sommers ganze Fülle
Laurie Lee; [poems]
The voyage of Magellan
The Sun My Monument (Phoenix Living Poets)
To War in Spain
All That Glitters... the Show Business Autobiography of Laurie Lee
The wonderful world of transportation
Laurie Lee A Folio
My many-coated man
Transports et civilisations
The wonderful world of transport
THE POCKET POETS LAURIE LEE
Un beau matin d'été
We made a film in Cyprus
Cuando parti una manana de verano
Man must move
Un Instante En La Guerra
The bloom of candles
A Laurie Lee selection
As I walked out one midsummer morning, with a moment of war (cassette) read by Kenneth Branagh. 2cassettes
A. E. Hotchner
A. E. Hotchner (1917-2020)

biographer, journalist, playwright

  • Washington University in St. Louis

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Papa Hemingway
Sophia, living and loving
Hemingway and his world
Doris Day
Choice people
King of the Hill
A friendship
Blown away
The day I fired Alan Ladd and other World War II adventures
Hemingway in love
Hemingway and his world
The boyhood memoirs of A.E. Hotchner
O.J. in the morning, G&T at night
Blown away
Papa Hemingway: a personal memoir
El Secreto de Paul
Doris Day
Doris Day
Hemingway in Love : His Own Story
Paul and Me
Sofia Rōren
Doris Day
Shameless exploitation in pursuit of the common good
Louisiana Purchase
Looking for Miracles
Everyone Comes to Elaine's
Treasure
Ernest Hemingway's After the Storm
Shameless Exploitation In Pursuit of the Common Good
The man who lived at the Ritz
Sophia Living and Loving
Blown Away/a No-Holds-Barred Portrait of the Rolling Stones and the Sixties
Doris Day Her Own Story
Papa Hemingway
Papa Hemingway ; a personal memoir
Paul and Me
Dear Paul Newman
Papa Hemingway
The man who lived at the Ritz
The amazing adventures of Aaron Broom
Papa Hemingway
Kissing the Wind
Newman's Own Cookbook
Man Who Lived At Ritz
Papa Hemingway
Hemingway in Love
Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good
The dangerous American
Blown Away
PAPA HEMINGWAY, A PERSONAL MEMOIR
Them an who lived at the Ritz
The wizard of Oz
Paul and Me
Treasure
King of the hill
Papa Hemingway - A Personal Memoir
Briar Rose
King of the Hill
The Good Life According to Hemingway
Papa Hemingway
Der Schatz von Dongo
King of the hill
1966 ERNEST PAPA HEMINGWAY BY FRIEND A.E. HOTCHNER ILLUSTRATED WITH DUST JACKET GIFT
Doris Day Her Own Story
Papa Hemingway
The White House
Sofia: Su Propia Historia/Sophia
Papa Hemmingway
Treasure
Sophia : Living and Loving
Papa Hemingway a Personal Memoir
ha-Ish she-hitgorer be-Rits
A.E. Hotchner/Ernest Hemingway collection
La buena vida según Hemingway
Papa Hemingway
Everyone Comes to Elaine's
Paul Newman