Biography Books

Augustus - The Life and Times of the Founder of the Roman Empire

E. S. Shuckburgh

Augustus has been much less attractive to biographers than Iulius; perhaps because the soldier is more interesting than the statesman; perhaps because the note of genius conspicuous in the Uncle was w..

The Truth About an Author

Arnold Bennett

Sometime in the last century I was for several years one of the most regular contributors to "The Academy," under the editorship of Mr. Lewis Hind and the ownership of Mr. Morgan Richards. Mr. An..

A Life Unveiled, by a Child of the Drumlins

Anonymous

I fancy that this “Child of the Drumlins” did not know she was living amid drumlins when she passed her youth there. She knew them only as the long, smooth, loaf-shaped hills that were scattered over ..

Great leaders - Historic portraits from the great historians

George T. Ferris

Every one perusing the pages of the historians must have been impressed with the graphic and singularly penetrative character of many of the sketches of the distinguished persons whose doings form the..

The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair

All through my seventy-one years of writing life—I started at thirteen—I have had from my readers suggestions that I should tell my own story. I put myself in the position of a veteran of many campaig..

Captain Bill McDonald

Albert Bigelow Paine

Captain Bill McDonald is a name that in Texas and the districts lying adjacent thereto makes the pulse of a good citizen, and the feet of an outlaw, move quicker. It is the story of this man that..

Hilaire Belloc - No Alienated Man

Frederick Wilhelmsen

If Belloc is almost completely incomprehensible to the post-war intellectual (even the post-war Catholic intellectual), the lack of understanding can be traced to the amazing personal integration of t..

History of the Cape Mounted Riflemen

Richard Cannon

Biographical memoirs of the Colonels and other distinguished Officers, will be introduced in the Records of their respective Regiments, and the Honorary Distinctions which have, from time to time, bee..