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Vespucci sails for America

Read about Amerigo Vespucci's life and discover why America was named after him.

Julio Verne

una versi?n
2005
Presents a comprehensive biography of nineteenth-century French science-fiction author, Jules Verne, that chronicles childhood and major accomplishments, and his influence on history and the literary world.

Jes?s

2003
Draws from the Gospels, the Apocrypha, and other sources to chronicle the life of Jesus Christ, discussing his birth, childhood, teachings, works, and death and arguments regarding whether or not he was resurrected.

E.B. White

some writer! : a biography
1994
A biography of the popular author of poems, essays, short stories for adults, and books for children.

Zora Neale Hurston

1993
A biography of the African-American writer, well-known for her novels and collections of folklore.

The making of Mark Twain

a biography
1985
Tells of the early years of Sam Clemens and the stages by which he becomes Mark Twain.

The improper Bostonian

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
1979
A biography of the versatile 19thcentury physician, poet, scientist, professor, and lecturer who was a pioneer in many fields.

No One Gets Out of Here Alive

1980
Poet, rock star, philosohic - Jim Morrison and the Doors changed the American musical scene.

Granite and Rainbow

The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf
1998
Recounts tht hard realities of Woolf's life and how she transformed them in her novels, essays, letters and diaries.

William Faulkner

His Life and Work
1997
Minter draws on varied materials including Faulkner's essays, interviews, published and unpublished letters, as well as his poems, stories and novels, to illuminate the close relationship between his flawed life and his artistic achievement.

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