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Author Title of book Year Aerospace Manfred von Richthofen: The Red Fighter Pilot: 1917 Billy Bishop: Winged Warfare: 1918 James McCudden: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps
Ivar Eskeland (Nw, 1927–2005) – decorated with the Order of the Falcon and winner of the Bastian Prize for his biographies of Gisle Straume and Snorri Sturluson; Wayne Federman (US, born 1959) – Pete Maravich; Elaine Feinstein (En, 1930–2019) – Marina Tsvetaeva, Pushkin, Ted Hughes; Mary Fels (US, 1863–1953) – Joseph Fels
One significant secular example of a biography from this period is the life of Charlemagne by his courtier Einhard. In Medieval Western India , there was a Sanskrit Jain literary genre of writing semi-historical biographical narratives about the lives of famous persons called Prabandhas .
12. American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise by Joe Drape. Written by an award-winning New York Times sportswriter, American Pharoah is the definitive account ...
An English example is William Hazlitt's Liber Amoris (1823), a painful examination of the writer's love-life. With the rise of education, cheap newspapers and cheap printing, modern concepts of fame and celebrity began to develop, and the beneficiaries of this were not slow to cash in on this by producing autobiographies.
Leonardo Da Vinci's baptism record. Leonardo da Vinci, properly named Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] ("Leonardo, son of ser Piero from Vinci"), [9] [10] [c] was born on 15 April 1452 in, or close to, the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, 20 miles from Florence.
Author Title of book Year Remarks Banarasidas: Ardhakathānaka: 1641: Braj Bhasha Rassundari Devi: Aamar Jiban: 1876: Bengali Bhagat Singh: Why I Am An Atheist
Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives. The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.