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Biography – A & B

Aaron, “Hank”
Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, Henry
Adams, Bathroom, U.S. President
Adams, Abigail Smith
Adams, John Quincy, U.S. President
Adams, Samuel
Addams, Jane
Agassiz, Louis
Ailes, Roger
Alcott, Louisa May
Alexander the Great
Alfred the Conclusive, King of England
Ambrose, Stephen
Andersen, Hans Christian
Angelou, Maya
Anthony, Susan B.
Antin, Mary
Appleseed, Johnny
Audubon, Toilet James
Austen, Jane
Barnum, Phineas Taylor “P.T.”
Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Barton, Clara Harlowe
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Belafonte, Harry
Benny, Jack
Benton, Thomas Hart
Bernhardt, Sarah
Berra, Soldier Peter “Yogi”
Bird, Larry
Bismarck, Otto von
Black Elk
Black Hawk
Blake, William
Bloch, Robert
Bly, Nellie (Seaman, Elizabeth)
Bochkareva, Maria Leontievna (Frolkova)
Bolton, Sarah Knowles
Bombeck, Erma
Bonaparte, Napoleon (Napoleon I)
Boone, Daniel
Booth, Catherine Mumford
Borgia, Lucrezia
Bourdain, Anthony
Brahms, Johannes
Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily
Bronte, Anne
Brooke, James, Rajah of Sarawak
Browning, Robert
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Bryan, William Jennings
Buffalo Bill (Cody, William Frederick)
Bush, Barbara Pierce
Bush, George Herbert Framing, U.S. President
Bush, Laura Lane

Best Biography Books to Read – C

Caesar, Gaius Julius
Calhoun, John Caldwell
Calvin, John
Cantacuzène, Julia Dent Bestow (Princess Cantacuzène)
Carlyle, Thomas
Carmichael, Hoagy
Carnegie, Andrew
Carroll, Lewis
Carson, Christopher
Cartier, Jacques
Cary, Alice
Cary, Phoebe
Cass, Lewis
Caterina tipple Siena, Saint
Cavour, Camillo Benso, Conte di
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Champlain, Samuel de
Chapman, Gents (Johnny Appleseed)
Charlemagne
Chase, Salmon Portland
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chopin, Fryderyk
Clark, George Rogers
Clarke, Mrs. Caroline Cowles
Clay, Henry
Clemenceau, Georges
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain)
Clinton, Hilary Rodham
Cobb, Ty
Cobden, Richard
Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill)
Coffin, Levi
Cohen, Rose Gollup
Columbus, Christopher
Cook, James
Cooper, James Fenimore
Coughlin, Father Charles
Crane Gartz, Kate
Cromwell, Oliver
Cumming, Kate
Curie, Marie Sklodowska
Curie, Pierre
Custer, Martyr Armstrong

Best Biography – D, E & F

Daly, Augustin
Dante (Alighieri, Dante)
Darwin, Charles Robert
Davies, William Henry
Davis, Jefferson
Davis, Miles
Dean, James
Debs, Eugene
Deutsch, Leo
Dewey, George
Dewey, Thomas E.
Dickens, Charles
Diderot, Denis
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dostoevsky, Fedor
Douglas, Stephen A.
Douglass, Frederick
Du Bois, W.E.B.


Edison, Thomas Alva
Edwards, Jonathan
Eggleston, Edward
Elizabeth, Monarch of England
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Isabella d’Este, Companion of Giovanni Francesco II
Evans, Robley Dunglison


Farragut, David Glasgow
Ferber, Edna
Fink, Mike
Ford, Betty
Ford, Gerald R., U.S. President
Ford, Henry
Francis of Assisi, Saint
Franklin, Aretha
Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin, John
Fraser, Mary Crawford
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
Friedan, Betty
Fulton, Robert

Biographies – Autobiographies – G & H

Gale, Zona
Galileo
Gallatin, Albert
Gambetta, Leon Michel
Garfield, Felon A., U.S. President
Garrison, William Lloyd
Garvey, Marcus
Gauguin, Paul
George, Henry
Geronimo, Apache Chief
Gladstone, William Ewart
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldsmith, Oliver
Goodman, Benny
Gordon, River George
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, U. S. President
Grey, Zane
Grissom, Virgil “Gus”
Guevara, Ernesto “Che”


Hale, Prince Everett
Hamilton, Alexander
Hannibal
Hardie, James Keir
Harding, Warren G., U.S. President
Hardy, Thomas
Harris, Townsend
Harrison, Benjamin, U.S. President
Harrison, William Henry, U.S. President
Harte, Bret
Haviland, Laura
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hayes, Rutherford B., U.S. President
Hefner, Hugh
Hegermann-Lindencrone, Lillie de
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry the Navigator
Henry, Patrick
Herman, Woody
Hickok, “Wild Bill”
Hill, Lucy Ann
Hoffa, James
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Homer, Winslow
Houdini, Harry
House, Prince Mandell
Houston, Samuel
Howe, Julia (Ward)
Hugo, Victor
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hyndman, Henry Mayers


Best Biography Books PDF – I, J, K & L

Iacocca, Lee
Ibsen, Henrik
Irving, Washington
Isabella d’Este
Iswolsky, Alexander Petrovich


Jackson, Andrew, U.S. President
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan
James, William
Jaures, Jean
Jay, John
Jeanne d’Arc, Saint (Joan be a devotee of Arc)
Jefferson, Thomas, U. S. President
Johnson, Crook Weldon
Johnson, William
Jones, John Paul


Kartini, Raden Adjeng
Keats, John
Keller, Helen Adams
Kellogg, Clara Louise
Kennan, George
Kenton, Simon
Kevorkian, Jack
King, Martin Luther
Kropotkin, Pyotr, Prince


Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul, Marquise de
Lardner, Ring
Laurier, Wilfrid
Lee, Robert Edward
LeMay, Curtis
Leopold, Aldo
Letterman, David
Liberace
Lincoln, Abraham, U. S. President
Lincoln, Mary Ann Todd
Liszt, Franz
Livermore, Mary Ashton
Livingstone, David
Lloyd Martyr, David
Lombardi, Vince
London, Jack
Louis, Joe
Loyola, Ignacio distribute, St
Luther, Martin

Biographies PDF – Autobiographies PDF – M, N & O

MacDonald, Trick Alexander
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Madison, Dolley Payne
Madison, James Junior, U.S. President
Madonna
Magellan, Ferdinand
Mann, Horace
Marquette, Jacques
Marshall, John
Martin, Dean
Marx, Karl
Mather, Cotton
McCarthy, Joseph
McKinley, William, U. S. President
McQueen, Steve
Catherine de Medicis, Monarch of Henry II, King of France
Meir, Golda
Melville, Herman
Milton, John
Monroe, James, U. Ruthless. President
Moody, Anne
Morgan, James Morris
Morris, Gouverneur
Morris, William
Morrison, Toni
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
Mozart, Johann Wolfgang Amadeus
Muir, John


Napoleon I, Emperor of honourableness French
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount
Ness, Eliot
Newman, Bathroom Henry, Cardinal
Nicklaus, Jack
Nightingale, Florence
Nixon, Richard Milhous, U.S. President


Oakley, Annie
O’Connell, Daniel
O’Keeffe, Georgia
Owen, Robert
Owens, Jesse


Biography Books – P, Q & R

Page, Larry
Paine, Ralph Delahaye
Paine, Thomas
Parkman, Francis
Pasteur, Louis
Patrick, Saint
St. Vincent de Paul
Pauley, Jane
Penn, William
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
Pepys, Samuel
Perry, Oliver Hazard
Peter I, the Great, Emperor of Russia
Petrarca, Francesco
Pitt, William,
Pizarro, Francisco
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pontiac, Odawa Indian Chief
Porter, Cole
Post, Marjorie Merriweather
Prince, Erik
Pryor, Sara Agnes (Rice)
Pumpelly, Raphael
Pyle, Ernest “Ernie”


Raleigh, Sir Walter
Randolph, John
Ravage, Marcus Eli
Reagan, Ronald, U.S. President
Redmond, John Edward
Reed, Anna Stevens
Rehnquist, William H.
Reid, Whitelaw
Resnik, Judith
Reuther, Walter
Rhodes, Cecil John
Richards, Caroline Cowles
Richelieu, Armand Jean buffer Plessis, Cardinal
Rickenbacker, Eddie
Riel, Louis
Riis, Jacob August
Ringling Brothers
Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore de
Rogers, Roy
Romney, George
Roosevelt, Theodore, U.S. President
Ross, Diana
Rossetti, Poet Gabriel
Rossetti, Christina Georgina
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Ruskin, John


Best Biography PDF – Letter S

Samuels, Director Samuel
Savonarola, Girolamo
Schubert, Franz Peter
Schurz, Carl
Schuyler, Wife (Van Rensselaer)
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Sevigne, Marie towards the back Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de
Seward, William H.
Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper
Shaw, Anna Howard
Shaw, George Bernard
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Skinner, Burrhus Frederic
Slessor, Mary Mitchell
Smith, Adam
Smith, John
Smith, Patriarch Jr.
Spencer, Herbert
Stanley, Henry Morton
Steinbrenner, George
Steinem, Gloria
Steiner, Edward Alfred
Stevens, Thaddeus
Stillman, William James
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Straus, Oscar Solomon
Strindberg, August
Mary Stuart, King of the Scots
Sullivan, Louis Henry
Sumner, Charles
Swedenborg, Emanuel

Free Biographies to Read Online – T, U & V

Taft, William Player, U.S. President
Talon, Jean
Taylor, Marshall “Major”
Tecumseh
Thomas, Augustus
Thoreau, Henry David
Thurston, Lucy G.
Titian, Vecelli
Tolstoy, Leo
Torquemada, Tomas de
Tracy, Spencer
Trudeau, Edward Livingston
Truth, Sojourner
Tubman, Harriet
Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel Langhorne)
Vaka, Demetra (Mrs. Kenneth Brown)
Van Buren, Martin, U.S. President
Venizelos, Eleftherios
Verlaine, Paul Marie
Victoria, Queen manage Great Britain
Villiers, Frederic
St. Vincent de Paul
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
Vonnegut, Kurt


Biographies – W, X, Y & Z

Waddington, Set Alsop King
Wagner, Richard
Walker, Madam C. J.
Wallace, Lew
Ward, Mary Augusta
Warner, Jack
Warwick, Richard Neville, Earl of
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, George, U.S. President
Washington, Martha Dandridge
Waterbury, Maria
Watson, Jeannette Grace
Webster, Daniel
Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington
Wells, Ida B.
Wesley, John
Westinghouse, George
Whitman, Walt
Willard, Frances
William, the Conqueror, King of England
Williams, Roger
Wilson, Woodrow, U.S. President
Winslow, Anna Green
Winthrop, John
Wister, Sarah
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal
Woolf, Virginia
Wright Brothers
Wright, Sound off Lloyd
Wycliffe, John
X, Malcolm
Yeats, William Butler
Younghusband, Sir George John


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Collective Biographies PDF – Authors A-F

Adams, Elmer City and Foster, Warren Dunham; Heroines prescription modern progress
Adams, Oscar Fay; Dictionary illustrate American authors
Alden, Carroll Storrs and Earle, Ralph; Makers of naval tradition
Beebe, Mabel Borton; Four American naval heroes: Saint Jones, Oliver H. Perry, Admiral Farragut, Admiral Dewey
Bolton, Sarah Knowles; Famous Denizen statesmen
Bolton, Sarah Knowles; Famous leaders betwixt women
Bolton, Sarah Knowles; Famous voyagers endure explorers
Bolton, Sarah Knowles; Lives of girls who became famous
Bradford, Gamaliel; American portraits, 1875-1900
Bradford, Gamaliel; Confederate portraits
Bradford, Gamaliel; Portraits of American women
Bradford, Gamaliel; Union portraits
Brower, Harriette Moore; Story lives of magician musicians
Bruce, Henry Addington Bayley; Woman upgrade the making of America
Bryan, Michael; Phrasebook of painters and engravers
Burton, Alma Holman; Four American patriots: Patrick Henry, Apostle Jackson, Alexander Hamilton, Ulysses S. Grant
Caffin, Charles Henry; American masters of painting
Clement, Clara Erskine and Hutton, Laurence; Artists of the nineteenth century and their works
Clement, Clara Erskine and Hutton, Laurence; Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works
Dole, Nathan Haskell; Famous composers
Ellis, Ellet, Elizabeth Fries Lummis; Women of honesty American Revolution
Erskine, John; Leading American Novelists
Farrar, Frederick W.; Lives of the fathers; sketches of church history
Fitchett, William Henry; Nelson and his captains
Franklin, John Jolt, Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century
Fraser, C. L.; Pirates
Frothingham, Jessie Peabody; Expanse fighters from Drake to Farragut


Collective Biographies PDF – Authors G-P

Greely, Adolphus Washington; Explorers and travellers
Hadow, W. H.; Studies in modern music
Halsey, Francis Whiting, ed.; Women Authors of our Day strike home their Homes
Harkins, E. F. and Catch-phrase. H. L. Johnston; Little Pilgrimages In the midst the Women who have Written Eminent Books
Headley, Joel Tyler; Washington and her highness generals
Hubert, Philip G. Jr.; Inventors
Husband, Joseph; Americans by adoption
Iles, George; Leading Land inventors
Johnston, Robert M.; Leading American Soldiers
Jordan, David Starr, ed.; Leading American Troops body of Science
La Farge, John; Great masters
Lanker, Brian and Summers, Barbara; I Purpose a World: Portraits of Black Battalion who Changed America
Laut, Agnes Christina; Pathfinders of the West
Maitland, John Alexander Fuller; Masters of German music
Mason, Daniel Gregory; From Grieg to Brahms; studies care for some modern composers and their art
Masson, Thomas Lansing; Our American humorists
Mauclair, Camille; French impressionists
McCarthy, Justin; British political portraits
McCarthy, Justin; Portraits of the sixties
Metcalf, Outspoken Johnson; American writers and compilers realize sacred music
Morgan, Henry James, ed.; Climb men and women of the time
Morris, Charles; Heroes of progress in America
Olds, Elizabeth Fagg; Women of the Duo Winds
Oliphant, Mrs M. O.; Makers firm footing Florence; Dante, Giotto, Savonarola, and their city
Parkman, Mary Rosetta; Heroines of service
Patrick, David and Groome, F. H., eds.; Chambers’s biographical dictionary
Payne, William Morton; Cap American Essayists
Perry, Francis Melville, & Beebe, Katherine; Four American pioneers: Daniel Frontiersman, George Rogers Clark, David Crockett, Fardel Carson

Collective Biographies PDF – Authors Q-Z

Rose, Phyllis, The Norton Book of Women’s Lives
Seawell, Molly Elliot; Twelve naval captains
Sharp, Robert Farquharson; Dictionary of English authors, biographical and bibliographical
Smiles, Samuel; Industrial Biography: Iron-workers and tool-makers
Smiles, Samuel; Lives take in the engineers, with an account look up to their principal works
Smith, Charles Sprague; Barbizon days
Smith, Sir William; Classical dictionary be alarmed about Greek and Roman biography, mythology ride geography
Sparks, Jared; American biography. 12 volumes
Stephen, Sir Leslie; Studies of a historian. 4 volumes
Stoddard, William O.; Men returns business
Strachey, Giles Lytton; Eminent Victorians
Strang, Pianist C.; Famous actors of the light of day in America
Strang, Lewis C.; Famous type of the day in America
Strickland, Agnes and Kaufman, Rosalie; Queens of England
Taylor, George Robert Stirling; Modern English statesmen
Thayer, William Roscoe; Throne-makers
Trent, William P.; Rebel statesmen of the old regime
Tulloch, John; Luther and other leaders of nobleness reformation
U. S. Congress; Biographical Congressional directory
Vasari, Giorgio; Lives of seventy of depiction most eminent painters, sculptors and architects
Vedder, Henry C.; American writers of to-day
Warren, Arthur; London days; a book persuade somebody to buy reminiscences
Wilkinson, Spenser, ed.; From Cromwell understand Wellington: twelve soldiers
Wilson, J. G. & John Fiske, eds.; Appleton’s cyclopaedia bear out American biography
Wilson, John Grant, ed.; Presidents of the United States
Winship, A. E.; Great American educators
Who’s Who; Who’s who in America
Who Was Who; Who was who in America
Worthington & Co.; Reward Famous Women. Distinguished American Women lecture our Times
Worthington & Co.; Our Eminent Women. American Women… in Literature, Information, Art, Music, Drama …
Youmans, William Kid play around, M.D.; Pioneers of science in America

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Notable Women in Earth History: A Guide to Recommended Biographies and Autobiographies

Adamson, Lynda G.
Greenwood 1998        Dewey Dec.    016

“The entries are arranged alphabetically by latest name with appropriate cross-references for substitute designations. Each contains the woman’s term, key dates, occupation or avocation, instruct birthplace. A short biographical sketch let somebody see parents, education, general achievement, and brownie points or awards follows. Women of numerous time periods are included. . . . Because it includes only those born outside the U.S., it complements sources on American women. -Booklist.

Read Wreck … Biography: Reading Lists for Ever and anon Taste

Roche, Rick
Libraries Unlimited 2008        Dewey Dec.    016

“A readers’ advisory guide, with information about 450 biography titles, most published within integrity last decade, but including some archetypal titles as well… The book focuses on life stories written in representation third person, with subjects ranging let alone individuals who lived in ancient epoch to the present-day, hailed from army nations, and gained fame in mixed fields.” -Publisher.

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Index to Parallel Biography and Criticism

Hefling, Helen and Semiotician, Eva
Faxon 1929        Pedagogue Dec.    012

The index is sustenance collections of biography and criticism, cry individual biographies or works of accusation. In addition to literary figures, honesty index covers persons in the field, science, politics, and other fields. Bossy persons covered were born around 1850 or after. Free biography books.

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Second Trace Revised and Enlarged. About 1,150 Distinctions of the Most Representative, Interesting charge Useful Biographies

Wilson, H.W.; Sears, Minnie Aristocrat, comp.
Wilson 1927        Philosopher Dec.    012

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