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A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life and the times, which is or told by a different author. A biography is more than a list of impersonal facts (education, work, relationships, and death), it also portrays the subject's experience of those events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents the subject's story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experiences, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.— Excerpted from Biography on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Table of contents

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Agricola, by Tacitus
• Anne Bradstreet and her time by Helen Stuart Campbell
• John James Audubon by John Burroughs

B

• Sir Samuel Bentham by Mary Sophia Bentham

C

• Portrait of Julius Caesar by Suetonius
• List of Carthusians, 1800–1879 by William Douglas Parish
• Life of Henry Clay by Carl Schurz
• The Poetical Works of William Cowper (introductory memoir) by William Benham

D

• Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton

E

• St. Edmund, King and Martyr, by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham (955(?) - 1020(?)). A literary account of the martyrdom of St. Edmund, a King of England.
• Biographical Memoir of George Engelmann, by Charles A. White.

F

• The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. by Ernest Scott

G

• Galileo by Walter William Bryant (1918)
• James Gilmour of Mongolia by Richard Lovett

H

• Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Edward Woodberry (transcription project)
• Herschel by Hector Macpherson
• Sir William Herschel, his life and works by Edward Singleton Holden
• Right Reverend Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, D. D. First Bishop of Central Pennsylvania: A Biographical Sketch by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Jr.
• The life and times of Master John Hus by František Lützow
• John Huss: his life, teachings and death, after five hundred years by David Schley Schaff

J

• The Life of Flavius Josephus by Flavius Josephus

K

• Kepler by Walter William Bryant
• Friedrich Kapp article from The Nation

L

• Notice de la Vie et des Ecrits de George Louis Le Sage (English) by John Playfair
• The Story of Abraham Lincoln by James Baldwin
• The Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324 by John Hugh Bowers
• Abraham Lincoln: An Essay by Carl Schurz

M

• A Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1888 by Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin
• President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, Thomas G. Masaryk, 1919 by Jan Herben
• Men of Kent and Kentishmen (1892) by John Hutchinson

P

• Albert Parsons, by Albert Parsons
• Edgar Allen Poe - How to know him by Charles Alphonso Smith (start transcription)

R

• In Lockerbie Street: a little appreciation of James Whitcomb Riley, by Mabel Potter Daggett

S

• Biography of Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Aviator
• Robert Louis Stevenson: a short biography by Edmund Gosse from 11th Edition Britannica
• Arthur Schopenhauer, his Life and Philosophy by Helen Zimmern, the influential work that introduced Schopenhauer and his philosophy to the English speaking world.
• Life of Pingali Suranarya (Pithapuram, 1941) (start transcription)

T

• Biography of Leo Tolstoy by Robert Nisbet Bain, 1903

W

• Life of Isaiah V. Williamson by John Wanamaker, pub. 1928

Collections

• Ælfric's Lives of Saints
• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1888-1900)
• Biographia Hibernica (1822)
• A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers by Joseph McCabe (1945)
• A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen (1857) (incomplete) edited by Thomas Napier Thomson
• Biographies of Scientific Men by Arthur Bower Griffiths
• Cyclopædia of American Biographies (1903)
• The Cyclopædia of American Biography (1918)
• The Dictionary of Australasian Biography (1892)
• Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century by Henry Wace and William C. Piercy
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith
• Dictionary of National Biography edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee
  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, 63 volumes
  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement 3 volumes
  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement 3 volumes
• Goodspeed's Northwestern Arkansas/Biographical Appendix
• Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced The History of Their Times
• The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)
• The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, 1st-2nd century C.E., by Plutarch
• Men of 1914 (1915)
• The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 by James Grant Wilson (editor)
• Real Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis (early biographical sketches of Winston Churchill, Frederick Russell Burnham, et.al., written in 1906).
• Representative Men, 1850, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Heroes Every Child Should Know by H. W. Mabie
• The Beginner's American History by David H. Montgomery
• Lives of the Eminent Commanders by Cornelius Nepos
• Makers of British botany by Francis Wall Oliver, ed., 1913
• Men of Invention and Industry, 1884, by Samuel Smiles (biographies of British engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs).
• The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, 1910, by Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (includes collection of biographies of LGBT people)
• Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 1st-2nd century C.E.
  • Lives of Eminent Grammarians
  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
• A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
• The Women of the American Revolution
• Thom's Irish Who's Who (1923) by publisher Alexander Thom & Co

Reference works

• "Biography," in Domestic Encyclopædia, by A. F. M. Willich, London: (1802)
• "Biography," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Biography," by Edmund William Gosse in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Biography," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

See also

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