Biography Books

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 - Great Writers

John Lord

The consideration of "Great Writers" was reserved by Dr. Lord for his final task,--a task interrupted by death and left unfinished. In order to round out and complete this volume, recourse has been ha..

Irish Plays and Playwrights

Cornelius Weygandt

Irish Plays and Playwrights is a biographical collection about Irish dramatists and their plays written by Cornelius Weygandt is from Pennsylvania Dutch heritage. He remains the leading authority of a..

Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America

Agnes Rush Burr

Biographies have a large place in present day literature. A woman long associated with some foreign potentates tells her story and it is read with unhealthy avidity. Some man fights many battles, and ..

Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal

Maria Monk

This volume embraces not only my "Awful Disclosures," but a continuation of my Narrative, giving an account of events after my escape from the Nunnery, and of my return to Montreal to procure a legal ..

Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs

Osgood E. Fuller

Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs is a collection of biographical work of most successful personalities in various fields written by Osgood E. Fuller.The brave man or t..

The Beth Book

Sarah Grand

The Beth Book being a study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius written by Sarah Grand, an Irish feminist writer active from 1873 to 1922. Her work revolved around the New Wom..

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12 - Domitian

C. Suetonius Tranquillus

The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, while Suetonius w..

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 is a multi volume biography about popular poets written by Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwrigh..