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
librarians who wrote biography
Showing 49-56 out of 119 results
Ray Desmond
Ray Desmond (1925-2019)

librarian, archivist

View on Open Library
View on Wikidata

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors and botanical artists
Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists
Simla
Kew
The History of Kew
A celebration of flowers
Great Natural History Books and Their Creators
The British Museum book of flowers
The India Museum, 1801-1879
The European discovery of the Indian flora
Bibliography of British gardens
Victorian India in focus
Bibliography of British and Irish Gardens
Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers
Bibliography of British Gardens (St. Paul's Bibliographies)
Wonders of Creation
DICT OF BRIT/IRISH BOT SEE 2ND ED
T. Gwynn Jones
T. Gwynn Jones (1871-1949)

journalist, librarian, poet, literary critic

  • Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

Cymeriadau
Thomas Gwynn Jones
Welsh folklore and folk-custom
Llenyddiaeth y Cymry
Caniadau
Llenyddiaeth y Cymry
T. Gwynn Jones
Emrys ap Iwan
Daniel Owen, 1836-1895
Llyfr Nia fach
Llyfr Gwion bach
Cerddi canu
Awen y Gwyddyl
Brithgofion
Ymadawiad Arthur a chaniadau eraill
Dyddgwaith
Y dwymyn, 1934-35
Beirniadaeth a myfyrdod
Cerddi hanes
Dewi Sant
The culture and tradition of Wales
Manion
Yn oes yr arth a'r blaidd
Brethyn Cartref
Lona
Geiriadur; Cymraeg-Saesneg a Saesneg-Cymraeg
Detholiad o ganiadau
Iwerddon
Y Môr Canoldir a'r Aifft
Astudiaethau
Gorchest Gwilym Bevan
Cofiant Thomas Gee
John Homer
Tir na n-Óg
Song-classics for children
Blodau o hen ardd
Ceinciau'r Cymry
Chwe chân glasurol
Chwe chân werin Gymreig =
Canu haf
Y glöyn byw
Johann Joachim Eschenburg
Johann Joachim Eschenburg (1743-1820)

literary historian, translator, librarian, literary critic

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

Ueber W. Shakspeare
Lehrbuch der Wissenschftskunde
Manual of classical literature
Denkmäler altdeutscher dichtkunst
Classical antiquities
Entwurf einer Theorie und Literatur der schönen Wissenschaften
Manuel de littérature classique ancienne
Entwurf einer theorie und literatur de schönen redekünste
Handbuch der klassischen Literatur
Entwurf einer Theorie und Literatur der Schoenen Wissenschaften: Zur ..
Entwurf einer Geschichte des Collegii Carolini in Braunschweig
Nouveaux élémens de littérature
Allgemeine Grundsätze der schönen Literatur, von der Poesie überhaupt
Handbok i den klassiska literaturen
Grundz©ơge der griechischen und r©œmischen Fabelgeschichte
Über William Hogarth und seine Erklärer
Classical antiquities
Handbuch der klassischen literatur, enthaltend I. Archäologie
Dramatische bibliothek
Charles Lenormant
Charles Lenormant (1802-1859)

anthropologist, archaeologist, art historian, egyptologist, professor, librarian, numismatist

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

François Gérard, peintre d'histoire: essai de biographie et de critique
Mémoire sur les peintures que Polygnote avait exécutées dans la lesché de Delphes
Beaux-arts et voyages
Élite des monuments céramographiques
Rabelais et l'architecture de la renaissance
Rabelais et l'architecture de la renaissance
Trésor de numismatique et de glyptique
Cours d'histoire ancienne
Commentaire sur le Cratyle de Platon par Charles Lenormant ...
Des associations religieuses dans le catholicisme
Decouverte d'un prétendu cimetière mérovingien a la Chapelle Saint-Éloi
Les artistes contemporains
Mémoire sur les peintures que polygnote avait exécutées dans la lesché de Delphes
Musée des antiquités égyptiennes, ou, Recueil des monuments égyptiens, architecture, statuaire, glyptique et peinture
Luciano Bianciardi
Luciano Bianciardi (1922-1971)

linguist, journalist, translator, librarian, teacher, film actor

  • University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

Chiese escatollo e nessuno raddoppiò
Garibaldi
La vita agra
Ai miei cari compagni
Viaggio in Barberia
La solita zuppa
La battaglia soda
La Vita Agra (Italian Edition)
Il peripatetico e altre storie
L' integrazione
Il lavoro culturale
L' antimeridiano
Daghela avanti un passo!
Da Quarto a Torino
I minatori della Maremma
L' alibi del progresso
Abrir el fuego
La vita agra
Aprire il fuoco
Bianciardi com'era
Le cinque giornate
L' integrazione
Vita Agra, La
La vida agria
Da Quarto a Torino
Il peripatetico e altre storie
La vita agra
Da Quarto a Torino
El trabajo cultural
Il lavoro culturale
Un volo e una canzone
Il Risorgimento allegro
La solita zuppa e altre storie
Il convitato di vetro
Aprire il fuoco
Marcus Clarke
Marcus Clarke (1846-1881)

poet, librarian, playwright, journalist

  • Highgate School

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

Stories of Australia in the early days
His natural life
Old tales of a young country
Marcus Clarke
Reverses
Long odds
The Marcus Clarke memorial volume
A colonial city
A Marcus Clarke reader, containing selections from his lesser known writings
For the term of his natural life
Marcus Clarke
A colonial city
Chidiock Tichbourne
'Twixt shadow and shine
Stories
His natural life
Reverses, a comedy drama
Men in chains
Civilization without delusion
Mark Forrester's trial
A daughter of Eve, or, A lesson in love
For the term of his natural life
Peter the Deacon
Peter the Deacon (1106-1158)

librarian, politician, archivist, polygraph

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

The Atina dossier of Peter the Deacon of Monte Cassino
De viris illustribus Casinensibus
Liber illustrium virorum archisterii Casinensis
Registrum Petri Diaconi
Frederic Beecher Perkins
Frederic Beecher Perkins (1828-1899)

librarian

View on Open Library
View on Wikipedia

Charles Dickens
The picture and the men
San Francisco cataloguing for public libraries
San Francisco Cataloguing for Public Libraries: A Manual of the System Used in the San Francisco ..
President Greeley, President Hoffman and the resurrection of the ring
The Best Reading: Hints on the Selection of Books; on the Formation of Libraries, Public and ..
Pre-historic man: two lectures
Scrope: Or, The Lost Library. A Novel of New York and Hartford
The picture and the men
Check list for American local history
Charles Dickens
Scrope, or, The lost library
Devil-puzzlers
Scrope
My three conversations with Miss Chester
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens: A Sketch of His Life and Works
Scrope, or, The lost library
The Central Park
Narrative of Le Moyne
Pre-historic man
Picture and the Men
The Central Park
The best reading
My Three Conversations with Miss Chester
Rational Classification of Literature for Shelving and Cataloguing Books in a Library
Mike De Young
Devil-puzzlers and other studies
Charles Dickens
Scrope
Scrope
Hints for Home Reading: A Series of Chapters on Books and Their Use
The best reading
Six of one by half a dozen of the other
San Francisco cataloguing for public libraries
The station and duty of American teachers as citizens, in view of the materialism of the age