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Ralph Leighton
Ralph Leighton (born 1949)

film producer, biographer

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Tuva or bust!
TUVA OR BUST!
Epidurals for childbirth
How to count sheep without falling asleep
Teaching citizenship education
The king's alphabet
Deep in the Heart of Tuva
Principles of modern physics
Richard Ellmann
Richard Ellmann (1918-1987)

literary critic, biographer, journalist, literary scholar

  • Yale University, University of Dublin
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
Yeats
Four Dubliners
Eminent domain
James Joyce's hundredth birthday, side and front views
Yeats and Joyce
Oscar Wilde at Oxford
Letters
Oscar Wilde
Golden codgers; biographical speculations
Four Dubliners--Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
W.B. Yeats's second puberty
Literary biography
Letters of James Joyce. 2-3/3
Yeats, the man and the masks
Golden codgers
The Norton anthology of modern and contemporary poetry
The modern tradition
Edwardians and late Victorians
Ulysses on the Liffey
The identity of Yeats
A long the riverrun
Letters. 4/4
The New Oxford book of American verse
Oscar Wilde; a collection of critical essays
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
The consciousness of Joyce
Modern poems
The identity of Yeats
James Joyce Part 2
The uses of decadence
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
Yeats
Modern Poems
Joyce in love
The uses of decadence
Along the Riverrun
Omnium Gatherum
Modern poems
The modern tradition
Odysseus in Dublin
James Joyce Part 1
Oscar Wilde   Part 1 Of 2
The Oscar Wilde playing cards
Samuel Beckett, Nayman of Noland
FOUR DUBLINERS
Modern poems
James Joyce's tower
Ulysses
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
Oscar Wilde. Biographie
Wilde and the nineties
Golden Codgers
The New Oxford Book of American Verse
Henry James among the aesthetes
Ulysses the divine nobody
Oskar Uaĭlʹd
Yeats, the man and the masks
Oscar Wilde (20th Century Views)
Cuatro Dublineses
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
The backgrounds of Ulysses
Vier Dubliner
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
The modern tradition
The limits of Joyce's naturalism
The identity of Yeats. --
Oscar Wilde   Part 2 Of 2
James Joyce's tower
Edwardians and late Victorians
W.B.Yeats
Ulysses on the Liffey
The New Oxford book of American verse
Ronald Hayman
Ronald Hayman (1932-2019)

biographer, literary critic, playwright, actor

  • University of Cambridge
Tennessee Williams
Proust
Thomas Mann
John Gielgud
Hitler and Geli
A life of Jung
K
The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath
De Sade
Sartre
Artaud and after
John Osborne
Nietzsche, a critical life
Brecht
Fassbinder, film maker
Secrets
Nietzsche
The death and life of Sylvia Plath
John Arden
Thed eath and life of Sylvia Plath
The death and life of Sylvia Plath
Writing against
My Cambridge
Sartre
The death and life of Sylvia Plath
Fassbinder
Writing Against a Biography of Sartre
De Sade
How to read a play
Arnold Wesker
Harold Pinter
Theatre and anti-theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Gunter Grass
Tom Stoppard
Arthur Miller
My Oxford, my Cambridge
Edward Albee
Samuel Beckett
Nietzsche
Eugène Ionesco
British theatre since 1955
Tolstoy
The set-up
Günter Grass
Playback
British drama since 1970
Leavis
Samuel Beckett
Techniques of acting
John Whiting
The first thrust
Contemporary playwrights
My Cambridge (My University)
Eugene Ionesco
Brecht
Playback 2
The novel today, 1967-1975
Leavis
Playing the wife
Fassbinder
Arnold Wesker
The German theatre
Robert Bolt
Marquis de Sade
How to read a play
Secrets
John Arden
Literature and living
The novel today
Arthur Miller (Contemporary Playwrights)
One hundred years of drama
Edward Albee (Contemporary Playwrights)
Tom Stoppard (Contemporary Playwrights)
Marcel Proust. Die Geschichte seines Lebens
Tolstoy (Profiles in Literature)
Arnold Wesker. (World dramatists)
Heroes, villains and true love conquers all
Situation de la littérature anglaise d'après-guerre
Arguing with Walt Whitman
Ḳafḳa
Harold Pinter
Teresio Bosco
Teresio Bosco (1931-2019)

Catholic priest, journalist, theologian, biographer, teacher, opinion journalist

Papa Giovanni
Vida de Juan Pablo II
Don Bosco, una biografia nuova
Don Bosco, storia di un prete
Di professione uomini
Martin Luther King
Magone Michele e Fernando Calò ..
Gandhi
Per i giovani a tempo pieno
Passaporto per il cinema
Raoul Follereau
Fatima Jinnah
Fatima Jinnah (1893-1967)

dentist, politician, biographer

  • University of Calcutta
My brother
Qāʼid-i Aʻẓam apnī bahin kī naẓar men̲ ..
Madar-i millat Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah
Mādar-i millat Muḥtaramah Fat̤imah Jinah
Fatima Jinnah on technical education
Afkār-i mādar-i millat
Shamaʻ-yi jamhūriyyat
Speeches
Speeches, messages and statements of Madar-i-Millat Mohtarama Fatima Jinnah (1948-1967)
Madar-i millat kī siyāsī va samājī sargarmiyān
Mādar-i millat kā jamhūrī safar
Afkār-i mādar-i millat
Fritz Angst
Fritz Angst (1944-1976)

autobiographer

Mars
Bunce, the bobby and the Broads
Jane Williams
Jane Williams (1806-1885)

poet, historian, biographer

The literary women of England
A history of Wales
W. Andrew Robinson
W. Andrew Robinson (born 1957)

editor, journalist, biographer, editing staff

  • Eton College, Dragon School
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
The man who deciphered Linear B
Satyajit Ray
Einstein
Cracking the Egyptian code
Einstein
Satyajit Ray : the inner eye
Cracking the Egyptian Code
The Scientists
Tears at Night, Joy at Dawn
Earth shock
The story of writing
The shape of the World
The art of Rabindranath Tagore
Genius
Exceptional Creativity In Science And Technology Individuals Institutions And Innovations
Business and macroeconomics
Earthquake Nature And Culture
The Story of Measurement
Sudden genius?
Maharaja
Rabindranath Tagore, an Anthology
Private treasures
Business and macroeconomics
Die Geschichte der Schrift
Kilroy Is Here
Noon in Calcutta
Writing and script
Lost languages
India
Earthshock
Purabi
Durer's Watercolors And Drawings from the Albertina
The Random Book Of Andrew
            
                Random Book Of
Reach for the Moon
Historia de La Escritura
Magic Items!
Maharaja
Writing and script
Shape of the World