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critics who wrote biography
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Jerome Charyn
Jerome Charyn (born 1937)

playwright, film critic, chronicler

  • Columbia University
Sunand Tryambak Joshi
Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born 1958)

literary critic, biographer, essayist, literary scholar, journalist

  • Brown University, Burris Laboratory School
Diana Mosley
Diana Mosley (1910-2003)

journalist, editor, biographer, critic

The pursuit of laughter
The Duchess Of Windsor A Memoir
The Duchess of Windsor
A life of contrasts
La Duchesse de Windsor
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999)

historian, autobiographer, literary critic, biographer

  • University of Calcutta, Surendranath College
The autobiography of an unknown Indian
Thy hand, great anarch!
Scholar extraordinary
Clive of India
Āmāra debottara sampatti
Biography of an Unknown Indian
Robert Clive of India
India
Hinduism, a religion to live by
A passage to England
Three horsemen of the new apocalypse
Culture in the vanity bag, being an essay on clothing and adornment in passing and abiding India
The continent of Circe
A passage to England
Āmāra deśa, āmāra śataka
Why I mourn for England
Nirbācita prabandha
From the archives of a centenarian
Ātmaghātī Bāṅālī
To live or not to live
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (New York Review Books Classics)
The intellectual in India
Hinduism
The finest story about India - in English
Bāṅālī jībane ramaṇī
Scholar Extraordinary, The Life of Friedrich Max Muller
No Royalty A/C Continent of Circe
The autobiography of an unknown Indian
The Hinduism omnibus
Scholar extraordinary
Passage to England
Robert Clive of India; A Political and Psychological Essay
Culture in the vanity bag
A passage to England
Defence of India
The East is East and the West is West
Dhirubhai Thaker
Dhirubhai Thaker (1918-2014)

literary critic, autobiographer

  • University of Mumbai
Paramparā ane pragati
Maṇilāla Nabhubhāi
Manilal Dvivedi
Smaraṇamādhurī
Śabdaśrī
Gujarātī sāhityanī vikāsarekhā
Arvācīna Gujarātī sāhityanī vikāsarekhā
Nāṭyakaḷā
Śabda ane saṃskr̥ti
Ūñco parvata, ūṇḍī khīṇa
Vibhāvitam
Śabdanuṃ sakhya
Raṅgamādhurī
Sapharamādhurī
Sudarśana ane Priyaṃvadā
Raṅga kasumbī
Glimpses of Gujarati literature
Rasa ane ruci
Drashṭā ane srashṭā
Ketalaka sahityika vivado
Abhijñāna
Śabdamādhurī
Sāmprata sāhitya
Jñānasudhā, svādhyāya ane sūci
Saṃskāramādhurī
Vikshepa
Samālocaka, svādhyāya ane sūci
Pratibhāva
Meghāṇī smāraka vyākhyāno, eka
Karun̲apraśasti kāvyo
Prasaṅgamādhurī
Keṭalāka sāhityika vivādo
Gujarātī viśvakośa
Gujarātī viśvakośa
Satsaṅgamādhurī
Patramādhurī
Āpaṇāṃ khaṇḍakāvyo
Nāṭyatālīmanā nepathye
David Robinson
David Robinson (born 1930)

film critic, journalist, biographer

  • Lincoln Christ's Hospital School
Chaplin, the mirror of opinion
Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin, his life and art
Chaplin
Alexander Shiryaev
Chappurin
The history of world cinema
From peep show to palace
Buster Keaton
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
World cinema
Movies of the forties
Robinson's choice
The great funnies
Panorama du cinéma mondial
Movies of the fifties
Footlights
The Illustrated history of the cinema
Movies of the sixties
Harold Lloyd
History of the movies
God's grandeur
Music of the shadows
Encyclopaedia of the magic lantern
The Illustrated history of the cinema
Movies of the silent years
Charles Chaplin, The freak
The Lantern image
Movies of the seventies
Movies of the thirties
Music of the shadows
Hollywood in the twenties
John Russell Taylor
John Russell Taylor (born 1935)

journalist, theatre critic, literary critic, film critic

  • Courtauld Institute of Art, University of Cambridge
Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho
Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho (1847-1921)

journalist, poet, literary critic

Vida do duque de Palmella
Contos e fantasias
Mulheres e creanças
Pelo mundo fóra
Em Portugal e no estrangeiro: (ensaios criticos)
Scenas do século 18 em Portugal
A arte de viver na sociedade
Cartas a Luiza
Chronicas de Valentina
Alguns homens do meu tempo (impressões litterarias
Arabescos
Serões no campo
Coisas d'agora
Uma primavera de mulher
Figuras de hoje e de hontem