Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

HE-for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of...

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

Flush

by Virginia Woolf, Eileen Atkins

IT IS universally admitted that the family from which the subject of this memoir claims descent is one of the greatest a...

The dictionary of national biography

Zero

by Charles Seife

The story of zero is an ancient one.

Madame Curie

by Eve Curie

DEEP SILENCE INVADED the school building in Novolipki Street on Sundays.

Franz Kafka

by Brod, Max

Current Biography International Yearbook 2006 (Current Biogr...

Virginia Woolf

by Quentin Bell

Das Mädchen Anne Frank

by Melissa Müller

Hush. Be quiet. Whisper. Walk softly . . . take off your shoes.

Churchill

by Roy Jenkins

CHURCHILL'S PROVENANCE WAS aristocratic, indeed ducal, and some have seen this as the most important key to his whole ca...

COD; A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

by Mark Kurlansky, S. D. Schindler

A medieval fisherman is said to have hauled up a three-foot-long cod, which was common enough at the time.

Leonardo da Vinci

by Walter Isaacson, Jordi Ainaud i Escudero

Dictionary of National Biography

by George Murray Smith, Sir Sidney Lee

Tolkien

by Humphrey Carpenter, Pierre Alien

It is mid-morning on a spring day in 1967.

Kerouac

by Ann Charters, Allen Ginsberg

In 1954, when Jack Kerouac was thirty-two years old, he tried to define, for a friend, what it was he wanted out of life...

Rant

by Chuck Palahniuk

Like most people, I didn't want to meet and talk to Rant Casey until after he was dead.

The Beatles

by Bob Spitz

The usual shock wave shuddered through Copenhagen Airport as the Beatles' plane approached from the north.

Stalin

by Robert Service

Jerusalem

by Simon Sebag-Montefiore