Infobox Television show name Biography image Image Roy Rogers Biography.jpg 150px caption rating TV G or TV PG depending on who what is profiled format Documentary film Documentary runtime 60 120 minutes creator CBS News starring country United States network CBS br A&E Network A&E br The Biography Channel first aired 1962 last aired present num episodes Biography is a documentary television series . It was originally a half hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted ... September 2011 The Canada Canadian television comedy series Liocracy was a parody of Biography . That program, in fact, was originally titled Liography until the producers of Biography threatened an intellectual property infringement lawsuit. See also The Biography Channel The E True Hollywood Story References reflist External links imdb title id 0054520 title Biography 1961 64 imdb title id 0092322 ... The Biography Channel Category Biography Channel shows Category 1987 television series ... Category English language television series gl Biography ... . The A&E series has placed the emphasis on such people as Marilyn Monroe , Elvis Presley , Pl cido ... up profiling enough figures that in 1999, A&E spun it off into an entire network, The Biography ..., but cut back to only once a week, usually on Friday nights. A&E canceled Biography after August 2006, making the show exclusively available on The Biography Channel. ref Dempsey, John. http www.variety.com article VR1117944601?categoryid 14&cs 1 Biography rewrite Variety magazine Variety June 4, 2006 ref However, A&E currently continues airing the series Saturday and Sunday mornings. ref http www.aetv.com search schedule.do?keywords biography&Search.x 0&Search.y 0 Schedule search for Biography ... Sanders , Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank . Hosts The 1987 version of Biography has been hosted ... was a regular guest host. In popular culture The basic format for Biography was copied by other networks ... more details
s as A&E Network A&E , The Biography Channel , History TV channel The History Channel and History International ... de Adi Holzer Adi Holzer Life 1997 . The life is like a tightrope walking . A biography is a detailed ..., and death , biography also portrays the subject s experience of those events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae Resume r sum , a biography presents the subject s life story, highlighting ... . Biographical works in diverse media from literature to film form the genre known as biography. An autobiography is written by the subject him or herself. An authorized biography is written with the cooperation ... 09 10s the steve jobs code The Steve Jobs Code , by Matthew E May ref Early biography The Early Middle ... secular example of biography from this period is the Vita Karoli Magni life of Charlemagne by his courtier ... biography tradition. This led to the introduction of a new literary genre the biographical ... biography focusing on secular lives. Vasari made celebrities of his subjects, as the Lives ... as Foxe s Book of Martyrs , was essentially the first dictionary of biography in Europe, followed by Thomas ... by David Cordingly . Conway Maritime Press 2002 . ref Modern biography The Golden Age of English biography emerged in the late eighteenth century, the century in which the terms biography and autobiography ... to biography emphasized uncovering material and letting the subject speak for itself. While Boswell ... writing. Generally American biography followed the English model, while incorporating Thomas Carlyle s view that biography was a part of history. Carlyle asserted that the lives of great human beings ... remain a strong element in early American biography, American writers carved out their own distinct approach. What emerged was a rather didactic form of biography which sought to shape individual character ... mass biography and literary biography which had formed by the middle of the nineteenth century ... of the century. Biography began to flower thanks to new publishing technologies and an expanding ... more details
refimprove date February 2011 Infobox Album WikiProject Album infobox Name A Biography Type studio Artist John Mellencamp Johnny Cougar Released March 6, 1978 Cover A biography.JPG Recorded Wessex Sound Studios Wessex Studios , Sarm West Studios Basing Street Studios , Associated Independent Recording AIR Studios , London , 1977 78 Genre Rock music Rock Length 42 58 Label Riva Records Riva Producer John Punter Last album The Kid Inside br 1977 This album A Biography br 1978 Next album John Cougar album John Cougar br 1979 Album ratings rev1 Allmusic rev1score Rating 1 5 ref Allmusic class album id r34027 pure url yes Allmusic review ref Automatically generated by DASHBot A Biography is John Mellencamp s third album, and the final album credited to his then stage name Johnny Cougar . Recorded in London , it was released in the U.K. and Australia by Riva Records on March 6, 1978. Due to poor sales of Mellencamp s previous two efforts, A Biography did not receive a US release upon its 1978 debut. Two of its tracks, Taxi Dancer and the single I Need a Lover , were on his 1979 album John Cougar album John Cougar which was released in the US. In Australia, however, I Need a Lover became a huge hit, with the result that Mellencamp s career got its first start Allmusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine has described I Need a Lover as Mellencamp s first good song. ref name allmusicBioAlbum cite web url Allmusic class album id a biography r34027 pure url yes title John Cougar A Biography review work Allmusic accessdate October 21, 2010 ref Track listing Tracklist all writing John Mellencamp headline Side One title1 Born Reckless length1 4 35 title2 Factory length2 3 02 title3 Night Slumming length3 4 40 title4 Taxi Dancer length4 4 05 title5 I Need a Lover length5 5 37 Tracklist headline Side Two title1 Alley of the Angels length1 3 58 title2 High C Cherrie length2 4 58 title3 Where ... John Mellencamp DEFAULTSORT Biography, A Category 1978 albums Category John Mellencamp albums ... more details
A biography is a genre of media based on the written accounts of individual lives. Biography could also mean BiographyTVseries , a popular biographical sketch series on the A&E television network The Biography Channel , a television network owned by A&E and inspired by the above program Biography journal , an interdisciplinary quarterly Biography album , a greatest hits collection from Lisa Stansfield Biography , a 1932 play by S.N. Behrman disambig ... more details
serv 1 TV di FASTWEB adsl chan 1 Channel 42 The Biography Channel or simply bio. is an American digital cable television channel owned by A&E Network A&E and based on the BiographyTVseries television series of the same name . A version of the channel also airs on ONO Spain ONO and Telef nica in Spain ... 1 www.variety.com ref Series Aftermath with William Shatner BiographyTVseriesBiography Enigma TVseries Enigma Mysteries of the Bible Notorious TVseries Notorious Screen Goddesses The Unexplained ...refimprove date July 2009 Infobox TV channel name bio. logosize 200px logofile The Biography Channel.svg ... TVseries The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , though this practice ended in 2007. As of August 2006, the Biography Channel became the exclusive home for the Biographyseries, which was also dropped by A&E. On Monday, July 16, 2007, the Biography Channel unveiled a new logo, a new tagline True Story ... True Story replaced names sister names A&E Network br History TV channel History br H2 TV channel H2 br Lifetime TV network Lifetime br Lifetime Movie Network br Lifetime Real Women br Military History TV channel Military History timeshift names web http www.biography.com www.Biography.com availability ... 207 sat serv 5 Cignal Digital TV sat chan 5 Channel 36 sat serv 6 C Band Headend in the Sky H2H ... America n version of the Biography Channel were launched. Biography Channel began programming ... of its branding, the Biography Channel name is still in use as a subheading within the channel logo ... Mobsters tv show Mobsters Case Crackers Crime Stories Flightmares The Chris Isaak Hour Ripley s Believe it or Not Airline U.S. TVseries Airline The Inside Story Fiction based series Agatha Christie s Poirot The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes TVseries The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Murder, She Wrote A Nero Wolfe Mystery Logos gallery File The Biography Channel 2000.svg Original logo used from January 1, 1999 until 2001. Image Biography Channel 1999 2007 logo.svg Biography Channel logo ... more details
Onesource date March 2009 Current Biography ISSN 0011 3344 is an American monthly magazine published by the H. W. Wilson Company of The Bronx, New York , a publisher of reference books, that appears every month except December. Current Biography contains profiles of people in the news and includes politicians, athletes, businessmen, and entertainers. Published since 1940, the articles are annually collected into bound volumes called Current Biography Yearbook . A December issue of the magazine is not published because the staff works on the final cumulative volume for the year. Articles in the bound volumes correct any mistakes that may have appeared in the magazine and may include additional relevant information about the subject that became available since publication of the original article. The work is a standard reference source in American libraries and the publisher keeps in print the older volumes. Wilson also issues cumulative indexes to the set, and an online version is available as a subscription database. Current Biography profiles are written by the Wilson Company s in house staff. They are typically produced by consulting previously published press accounts and occasionally by conducting interviews with the subjects. Running from 2,000 to 5,000 words, articles usually ... and add details occurring subsequent to the original profile. The entire series is available through ... Wilson Company began publishing an annual sister volume, Current Biography International Yearbook , which focuses on people living outside the United States. This series was discontinued after publication of the 2007 volume. Articles in Current Biography are often used and listed as supplemental material ... written for Current Biography include Cullen Thomas , the author of the prison memoir, Brother One ... Albert Rolls , the author of the book, Stephen King A Biography 2008 and Yongsoo Park , who wrote two ... Country the Movie 1996 . Charles Moritz served as editor in chief of Current Biography from 1957 ... more details
Infobox Book name God A Biography title orig translator image image caption author Jack Miles illustrator cover artist country United States of America language English language English series subject genre Religion publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. pub date 1995 english pub date media type Print Hardcover pages 408 isbn 0 679 74368 5 oclc 317866561 preceded by followed by God A Biography is a nonfiction book by Jack Miles . The book recounts the tale of existence of the Judeo Christian deity as the protagonist of the Hebrew Tanak or Christian Bible Old Testament . The Tanak and the Old Testament contain the same books, however, the order of the books is different. Miles uses the ordering found in the Tanak to provide the narrative on which his analysis is based. The book s conceit is that God s character develops progressively within the narrative. The accounts of God s actions in the various books are then used to deduce information about God s nature and motivation. The book won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography . ref Name Pulitzer cite web title The Pulitzer Prizes 1996 Winners and Finalists work pulitzer.org publisher Columbia University location New York , NY date n.d. url http www.pulitzer.org awards 1996 accessdate 2010 06 14 ref References reflist Category Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography Category 1995 books it Dio Una biografia ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Belushi A Biography title orig translator image Deleted image removed Image Belushi A Biography.jpg 200px image caption Cover photo author Judith Belushi Pisano Tanner Colby illustrator cover artist country United States language English Language English series subject John Belushi genre Biography publisher http www.ruggedland.com Rugged Land, LLC release date November 1, 2005 english release date media type Print Hardback pages 288 Hardback isbn 1 59071 048 7 dewey 792.702 8092 22 congress PN2287.B423 B43 2005 oclc 61476991 preceded by followed by Belushi A Biography is an oral history biography of John Belushi , written and collaborated by John s widow, Judith Belushi Pisano and co author Tanner Colby , with an introduction by Dan Aykroyd . Filled with anecdotes and interviews from John s personal friends, fellow Saturday Night Live alumni, and film co stars, it is a non objective, positive portrayal of the actor s life and influence. The anecdotes and narrative text are interspersed with both familiar and rare photos of the actor provided by Pisano, the Belushi family, and various friends. Many of the photos previously provided in Wired book Wired and Samurai Widow are seen here in full color. External links http www.belushibook.com Belushi A Biography , official website for the book Category American biographies Category 2005 books US bio book stub pt Belushi A Biography ... more details
Infobox Book name The Beatles The Biography title orig translator image Image Thebeatlesthebiography.jpg 200 px image caption author Bob Spitz illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English series subject The Beatles genre Biography , rock journalism music publisher Little, Brown and Company release date November 1, 2005 english release date media type Print hardcover pages 992 pp first edition, hardcover isbn ISBN 0316013315 first edition, hardcover oclc 77561694 preceded by followed by The Beatles The Biography is the name of a 2005 biography of the 1960s rock band The Beatles written by Bob Spitz . ref name metacritic.com http www.metacritic.com books authors spitzbob beatles ref ref http www.boston.com ae books articles 2005 10 23 the long and winding road ref ref http www.amazon.com dp 0316013315 ref It was first published by Little, Brown and Company on November 1, 2005. Reception The book received generally favorable reviews, ref name metacritic.com however some journalists and fans of the band noticed a number of factual errors in Spitz s biography. ref name whatgoeson.com http www.whatgoeson.com story.200510281.html ref ref http www.daytrippin.com beatles reviews 2005.htm spitz review ref Spitz has general been bitter towards his critics. When one of the editors for Daytrippin , a Beatles zine fan zine , mailed the author a short list of incorrect facts in his book, Spitz replied You need an enema . Really Do something useful with your life. ref name whatgoeson.com References Reflist The Beatles DEFAULTSORT Beatles, The Biography, The Category 2005 books Category Books about The Beatles Category British biographies Category Little, Brown and Company books Category Biographies about musicians music publication stub ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Lovecraft a Biography title orig translator image Image Lovecraft a Biography.jpg 200px image caption Dust jacket for Lovecraft a Biography author L. Sprague deCamp illustrator cover artist Nicholas Gaetano country United States language English language English series genre Biography publisher Doubleday publisher Doubleday release date 1975 english release date media type Print Hardcover Hardback pages xvi, 480 pp isbn 0385005784 dewey 813 .5 2 B congress PS3523.O833 Z59 oclc 979196 preceded by followed by Lovecraft a Biography is a 1975 biography of the writer H. P. Lovecraft by science fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp , first published in hardcover by Doubleday publisher Doubleday in February 1975. ref name Laughlin cite book last Laughlin first Charlotte coauthors Daniel J. H. Levack title De Camp An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography location San Francisco publisher Underwood Miller date 1983 page 78 ref ref name ISFDb isfdb title id 102354 title Lovecraft a Biography ref A later hardcover edition was issued by Barnes & Noble in January 1996. ref name ISFDb The first paperback edition, corrected and abridged by the author, was published by Ballantine Books in August 1976. ref name Laughlin ref name ISFDb The first British edition was published by New English Library in 1976. ref name Laughlin An E book edition of the Ballantine version of the work was published by Victor Gollancz Ltd Gollancz s SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp s works in electronic form. ref http www.orionbooks.co.uk authors de camp l. sprague2 Orion Publishing Group s L. Sprague ... ref The book has also been translated into German language German . ref name Laughlin The biography ... independent biography of Lovecraft. De Camp s approach has been called frank and judicious by some ... Reflist External links http www.qusoor.com Essays Camp.htm Lovecraft A Biography by L. Sprague ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2010 infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Dino Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams title orig translator image author Nick Tosches cover artist country United States language English language English series genre Biography , Music publisher Doubleday publisher Doubleday USA release date June 1, 1992 USA media type Print Hardcover Hardback , Paperback pages 572 pp hardback first edition isbn 0385262167 dewey 791 .092 B 20 congress PN2287.M52 T6 1992 preceded by followed by Dino Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams is a biography of Dean Martin written by Nick Tosches . It draws heavily from interviews Tosches did with Jerry Lewis and Martin s second wife, and lifelong friend Dean Martin Personal life Jeanne Biegger . The story begins with the births of Martin s grandparents in Italy and follows his entire life up to the point of publication. It also includes sections in which Tosches writes in the first person narrative first person from the point of view of Martin, a gonzo journalism style which would be used more frequently in his later non fiction works. DEFAULTSORT Dino Biography Category Books by Nick Tosches Category 1992 books bio book stub Music publication stub ... more details
Infobox journal title Biography Index cover File Biography Index low res cover.png editor discipline Biography peer reviewed language former names abbreviation publisher H. W. Wilson Company country United States frequency Quarterly, plus a cumulation history 1946 present openaccess license impact impact year website link1 link1 name link2 link2 name JSTOR OCLC 001536408 LCCN CODEN ISSN 0006 3053 eISSN boxwidth Biography Index is a bibliographic index that indexes biographical information contained in books and magazines ref cite web title Biography Index url https ulrichsweb serialssolutions com title 1319896014180 42757 work ULRICHSWEB publisher ProQuest accessdate 29 October 2011 ref . Its content can also be found in the bibliographic database s Biography Index Past and Present ref cite web title Biography Index Past and Present url http www.ebscohost.com academic biography index past and present work EBSCOhost Online Research Databases publisher EBSCO accessdate 29 October 2011 ref and Biography Index Retrospective ref cite web title Biography Index Retrospective url http www.ebscohost.com academic biography index retrospective work EBSCOhost Online Research Databases publisher EBSCO accessdate 29 October 2011 ref . Resources reflist Category Publications established in 1946 Category Bibliographic indexes ... more details
biography traces the life of Flush from his carefree existence in the country, to his adoption ... Browning . From this material, Woolf creates a biography that works on three levels. It is overtly a biography of a dog s life. Since this dog is of interest primarily for its owner, the work is also an impressionistic biography of Elizabeth Barrett during the most dramatic years of her life. At this level ... more details
Stalin A Biography is an biography of Joseph Stalin written by Robert Service historian Robert Service . It was published in 2004 to wide acclaim. ref name hup.harvard.edu http www.hup.harvard.edu catalog SERSTA.html?show reviews Harvard University Press Stalin A Biography by Robert Service Bot generated title ref The book is a weighty and descriptive account of Stalin s life, covering in detail his youth, rise to power and rule. It uses a personal style which humanizes Stalin without ever diminishing the extent of the atrocities he unleashed upon the Soviet population. ref name hup.harvard.edu Notes Reflist Category 2004 books Category Joseph Stalin Bio book stub ... more details
Orphan date May 2011 Biography Work based on Anthroposophy views the human circle of life on one hand as being embedded in the rhythms of nature and the cosmos on the other hand shaped by the individual power of creativity in everyone s Self. History Biography Work goes back to the publications of Bernard Lievegoed in the 1970s. Before this time, there were only widespread references in Rudolf Steiner s comprehensive lecture work, pointing at certain regularities in human s circle of life. Lievegoed summarized these data and introduced a new way of life consultation to the world, using a work process he had developed in co operation with Gudrun Burkhard. Method Biography Consultants support their clients in developing a continuous view of the past in order to achieve a new evaluation of past events in their life. Any single event loses its weight and the process like character of all events and their interaction become more important. Biography Work assumes that any human being is obliged to comply with tasks in life. These life tasks, stemming from our subconscious levels. are the driving force to our behaviour. Biography Work helps to get closer to this central theme the red thread that runs through each life. Biography Work is not supposed to be a therapy. Biography Work is a way of life consultation where consultant and client work together on eye level . Literature Bryant, W., The Veiled Pulse of Time, an introduction to biographical cycles and destiny, Anthroposophic Press Burkhard, Gudrun, Taking charge, FlorisBooks, 0 86315 253 8 Burkhard, Gudrun, Biographical Work, Floris Books, 978 86315 598 7 Lievegoed, B., Man on the Threshold, Hawthorn Press, Phases of Childhood, Floris Press O Neill, G. & G., The Human Life, Mercury Press Phases, The Spiritual Rhythms of Adult Life, Rudolf Steiner Press Schottelndreier, J., Life Patterns, Hawthorn Press Staley, B., Tapestries ... arbeit.org International Forum for Professional Biography Work based on Anthroposophy. Center for Biography ... more details
infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Orlando A Biography title orig translator image Image Portadaorlando.jpg 180px image caption 1st edition cover author Virginia Woolf illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre publisher Hogarth Press release date 11 October 1928 english release date media type pages isbn 9780156701600 oclc 297407 preceded by followed by Orlando A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf , first published on 11 October 1928. A semi biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf s lover Vita Sackville West , it is generally considered one of Woolf s most accessible novels. The novel has been influential stylistically, and is considered important in literature generally, and particularly in the history of women s writing and gender studies . A Orlando film film adaptation was released in 1992, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I . Plot Orlando tells the story of a young man named Orlando, born in England during the reign of Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I , who decides not to grow old. He is briefly a lover to the elderly queen, but after her death has a brief, intense love affair with Sasha, a princess in the entourage of the Russian embassy. This episode, of love and excitement against the background of the Great Frost , is one of the best known, and is said to represent Vita Sackville West s affair with Violet Trefusis . Following Sasha s sudden, unwarned departure and return to Russia, the desolate, heartbroken Orlando returns to writing The Oak Tree, a poem started and abandoned in his youth. He meets with Nicholas Greene, a famous poet and with whom he joyfully entertains, but who criticises Orlando s writing, later making Orlando feel betrayed when he finds himself made the foolishly depicted ... ru fi Orlando romaani sv Orlando A Biography ... more details
When studying literature, biography and its relationship to literature is often a subject of literary criticism , and is treated in several different forms. Two scholarly approaches use biography as a tool for interpreting literature, literary biography and biographical criticism, and two genre s of fiction rely very heavily on the incorporation of biographical elements, biographical fiction and autobiographical fiction. Literary biography A literary biography is the exploration of the lives of writers and artists. Biographies about artists and writers are sometimes some of the most complicated forms of biography. ref name backschneider1113 Not only does the author of the biography have to write about the subject of the biography but also incorporate the relevance of individual works by the subject into the biography itself. ref name backschneider1113 ref name karl Karl, Frederick R. Joseph Conrad in Meyers ed. The Craft , pp 69 88 ref Literary biographers must balance the weight of commentary on the individual works alongside the biographical content in order to create a coherent narrative. ref name backschneider1113 This balance is effected by the degree of biographical elements in an author s literary works. The close relationship between writer and artist and their work then relies strongly on the relationship between human psychology and literature and can be examined through psychoanalytic theory . ref name karl Literary biography tends to have a plethora of autobiographical ... publisher Oxford University Press publication place Oxford title Reflections on biography url http openlibrary.org books OL42046M Reflections on biography first Paula R. last Backscheider publication date 1999 isbn 019818641X Cite book title The Craft of Literary Biography editor Jeffrey Meyers publisher ... The Literary Biography editor Dale Salwak year 1996 publisher Macmillan publication place Basingstoke, Hampshire isbn 0 333 65746 7 Category Biography Category Literary criticism ... more details
Infobox Book name BOWIE A Biography image author Marc Spitz country United States language English language English subject Biographies & Memoirs , Music publisher Crown Publishing Group release date October 27, 2009 media type Print Hardcover pages 448 isbn ISBN 0307393968, ISBN 978 0307393968 preceded by Nobody Likes You Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green Day followed by Jagger Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue BOWIE A Biography is an expansive biography on the life and times of musician David Bowie , one of the twentieth century s greatest music and cultural icons. The book was written by Marc Spitz and originally released on October 27, 2009 by Crown Publishing Group . Synopsis Following Bowie s life from his start as David Jones, an R & B loving kid from Bromley, England, to his rise to rock n roll aristocracy as David Bowie, Bowie recounts his career but also reveals how much his music has influenced other musicians and forever changed the landscape of the modern era. Along the way, Spitz reflects on how growing up with Bowie as his soundtrack and how writing this definitive book on Bowie influenced him in ways he never expected, adding a personal dimension that Bowie fans and those passionate about art and culture will connect with and that no other bio on the artist offers. Bowie takes an in depth look at the culture of postwar England in which Bowie grew up, the mod and hippie scenes of swinging London in the sixties, the sex and drug fueled glitter scene ... books bookreviews 7619548 Bowie a Biography by Marc Spitz review.html Telegraph Review http www.popmatters.com pm review 119104 bowie a biography by marc spitz PopMatters Review External links http www.davidbowiebook.com BOWIE A Biography http www.randomhouse.com book 171251 bowie by marc spitz 9780307716996 BOWIE A Biography at Crown Publishing Group http www.facebook.com davidbowiebook BOWIE A Biography on Facebook http www.twitter.com davidbowiebook BOWIE A Biography on Twitter Category David ... more details
Infobox Journal cover Image Biographyjournalcover.gif discipline literature abbreviation Bio frequency quarterly website http www.uhpress.hawaii.edu journals bio publisher University of Hawaii Press country United States USA history 1978 present ISSN 0162 4962 eISSN 1529 1456 Biography An Interdisciplinary Quarterly is an international, academic journal that provides a forum for biographical scholarship. Its articles explore the theoretical, generic, historical, and cultural dimensions of life writing and the integration of literature, history, the arts, and the social sciences as they relate to biography. It also offers reviews, concise excerpts of reviews published elsewhere, an annual bibliography of works about biography, and listings of upcoming events, calls for papers, and news from the field. The journal was founded in 1978 by George Simson , a professor of literature at the University of Hawaii . Simson also founded the nonprofit Biographical Research Center BRC and the University s Center for Biographical Research CBR . The journal is owned by the BRC and published by the University of Hawaii Press . For several years professor Donald James Winslow of the University of Boston was the magazine s bibliographer. In 1994, the editorship passed to Craig Howes at the University of Hawaii, who gradually expanded the content and instigated a redesign in 1999. The journal s first electronic edition appeared in 2000 on Project MUSE . Biography appears quarterly, in Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall issues. From volume 22 1999 , the first issue of each year has contained a collection of articles on a particular theme, the first one serving as a Festschrift for George Simson. The final issue of each year contains an annual bibliography of works on life writing. External links http www.hawaii.edu biograph Sponsor homepage http www.uhpress.hawaii.edu journals bio Publisher homepage http muse.jhu.edu journals bio MUSE homepage Category Biography journals Category English ... more details
Image PriestleyChart.gif thumb right 320px A redacted version of Priestley s Chart of Biography 1765 In 1765, 18th century British polymath Joseph Priestley published A Chart of Biography and its accompanying prose description as a supplement to his Lectures on History and General Policy . ref Priestley, Joseph. A Chart of Biography . London J. Johnson, St. Paul s Church Yard, 1765 and Joseph Priestley, A description of a chart of biography . Warrington Printed at Warrington, 1764 A Description of a Chart of Biography . Warrington Printed by William Eyres, 1765. ref Priestley believed that the chart and A New Chart of History 1769 would allow students to trace out distinctly the dependence of events to distribute them into such periods and divisions as shall lay the whole claim of past transactions in a just and orderly manner. ref Qtd. in Sheps, 141 2. ref The Chart of Biography covers a vast timespan, from 1200 BC to 1800 AD, and includes two thousand names. Priestley organized his list into six categories Statesman and Warriors Divines and Metaphysicians Mathematicians and Physicians natural philosophers were placed here Poets and Artists Orators and Critics prose fiction authors were placed here and Historians and Antiquarians lawyers were placed here . Priestley s principle of selection was fame, not merit therefore, as he mentions, the chart is a reflection of current opinion. He also wanted to ensure that his readers would recognize the entires on the chart. Priestley had difficulty assigning all of the people listed to individual categories he attempted to list them in the category under which their most important work had been done. Machiavelli is therefore listed as a historian rather than a statesman and Cicero is listed as a statesman instead of an orator. The chart ... Dissent in late Eighteenth Century England. Lumen 18 1999 135 154. DEFAULTSORT Chart Of Biography ... fr A Chart of Biography ... more details
Penn is a biography of William Penn written for children by Elizabeth Janet Gray . Illustrated by George Gillett Whitney, it was published in 1938 and was a Newbery Medal Newbery Honor recipient in 1939. ref Cite web title Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922 Present publisher American Library Association date url http www.ala.org ala mgrps divs alsc awardsgrants bookmedia newberymedal newberyhonors newberymedal.cfm format doi accessdate 2009 12 30 ref References References DEFAULTSORT Penn Category 1938 books Category Children s non fiction books Category American children s books Category American biographies Category Newbery Honor winners book child book stub ... more details
File NansenCover.jpg thumb right First edition, 1940 br Viking Press Nansen is a children s biography of Fridtjof Nansen , the Norwegian polar explorer, written by Anna Gertrude Hall and illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff . First published in 1940, it was a Newbery Medal Newbery Honor recipient in 1941. ref Cite web title Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922 Present publisher American Library Association date url http www.ala.org ala mgrps divs alsc awardsgrants bookmedia newberymedal newberyhonors newberymedal.cfm format doi accessdate 2009 12 30 ref References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Nansen Category 1940 books Category Children s non fiction books Category American children s books Category Newbery Honor winners book child book stub ... more details
Hess A Biography is a book by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel . It is a 1971 biography of Rudolf Hess . It was published by MacGibbon and Kee London in 1971 as a 256 page hardcover ISBN 0 261 63246 9 . Drake Publishers New York republished it in 1973 ISBN 0 87749 428 2 . In the introduction, the authors state their aim to be as objective as possible about Hess, discuss the politics of his incarceration at Spandau prison Spandau , and state their belief that the time for mere hot blooded vengeance has long passed, and that for simple, human justice came long ago. Hess should be released. Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Hitler s Shadow Conscience of the Party Quixotic Mission Dagger of the Mind Nuremberg Trials Nuremberg Spandau prison Spandau Notes Bibliography Appendices The Hess Ministry and the Legislature Albrecht Haushofer Lord Beaverbrook s Interview with Hess The Significance of Hess s Letters written in Captivity Index Illustrations Schoolboy at Godesberg Hitler s Secretary, 1924 At Martin Bormann Bormann s wedding At Hitler s chalet , Obersalzberg At Hitler s chalet , Obersalzberg With Professor Karl Haushofer With Hitler, Roehm , and Gregor Strasser , March 1933 With Leni Riefenstahl and Bormann, 1934 At Hitler Youth Rally, 1938 Addressing Hitler Youth, 1940 With Wolf R diger Hess Wolf R diger before the flight to Scotland Wreckage of the Messerschmitt 110 after the flight to Scotland In captivity, 1945 At Nuremberg Trials Nuremberg with Goering , Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel Keitel Letter written from Spandau prison Spandau , 17 May 1970 Bio book stub Category 1971 books Category German biographies Category Books about Nazism ... more details
About Tibetan spiritual biographies the Mesopotamian mythological deity Namtar god Tibetan Buddhism A namtar Standard Tibetan Tibetan namthar , Wylie rNam.thar is a spiritual biography or hagiography in Tibetan Buddhism . Namtar literally means complete liberation , since the texts tell the stories of yogis or Indo Tibetan Mahasiddha who attained complete enlightenment. Namtars do not focus on a literal chronology of events, but rather function as a kind of learning example that hits the high points of the sprititual life of a yogi. In her book, Women of Wisdom , Tsultrim Allione collected translations of the namtar of six Tibetan Buddhist yogini Namgsa Obum, Machig Lapdron , Jomo Memo, Machig Ongjo, Drenchen Rema and A Yu Khadro. According to Allione blockquote The sacred biography is called rNam.thar in Tibetan, which literally means complete liberation. The rNam.thar are specially geared to provide records for those on a spiritual quest, in much the same way that someone about to climb a high mountain would seek out the chronicles of those who had made the climb before. The sacred biographer is primarily concerned with providing information which will be helpful and inspirational for someone following in the footsteps of the spiritual adept or saint. Establishing a mythical ideal and the communication of the sacred teachings takes precedence over providing a narrative portrait or likeness of the subject as a personality. The personality is stressed only in so far as it relates to the spiritual process of the individual. ref cite book last Allione first Tsultrim title Women of Wisdom publisher Arkana location London date 1986 isbn 1 85063 044 5 page 56 ref blockquote References Reflist Buddhism topics Category Tibetan culture Category Tibetan Buddhist texts Category Vajrayana Tibet stub ... more details
Backbeat Earl Palmer s Story is the biography of pioneer rock and roll drummer Earl Palmer . The book is by music journalist Tony Scherman with a foreword by Wynton Marsalis . More than half the text is directly quoted from Palmer, making the book as much an autobiography as it is a biography. The story begins with Palmer as a four year old vaudeville tap dancing tap dancer and continues with the story of New Orleans music and the emergence of a strong rock and roll drumming style featuring the beat music back beat . After his triumphs in the city, Palmer moved to Los Angeles , where he became one of the top session musician s and arrangers of the 1950s through the 1970s, playing on hundreds of hits, from La Bamba song La Bamba to Percy Faith and Frank Sinatra . The sections quoting Palmer are colorful, frank, and direct, giving the full flavor of his life as a musician. For example, speaking of playing on Little Richard s records Richard s music was exciting as a sumbitch. I m not talking about the quality of it. It wasn t quality music. It wasn t no chords. It was just blues. Slippin and Slidin sounded like Good Golly Miss Molly and they both sounded like Lucille . It was exciting because he was exciting. Richard is one of the few people I ve ever recorded with that was just as exciting to watch in the studio as he was in performance. The book includes an extensive discography and notes. References Backbeat Earl Palmer s Story , by Tony Scherman, Da Capo Press, 1999, ISBN 0 306 80980 X. Category American biographies ... more details
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