Explore: Biographies [documents]

biographies became less church-oriented in Europe as biographies of kings, knights, and tyrants began to appear. The most famous of such biographies was

and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author." Award winners receive US$15,000. From 1917

fictionalised biography documenting the life of Thomas Cromwell. The six-part first series was initially broadcast on BBC Two in January 2015. It documented the

follow-up volume with additional documents was published in 1991 by Eisen. A great number of additional biographies exist, of which notably recent ones

Suomen kansallisbiografia (English: National Biography of Finland) is a collection of more than 6,000 biographies of individuals and families who have made

period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII

meeting him. Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, along with other biographies, documented Johnson's behaviour and mannerisms in such detail that they have

and document type. This makes "subject" a fundamental term in this field. Library and information specialists assign subject labels to documents to make

decades of the 21st century, over a hundred biographies of Frédéric Chopin had been published. Book-length biographies of Chopin's entire life include: Liszt

document". Copy editors at Farrar, Straus and Giroux assisted Lacey as she produced the novel. To write the novel, Lacey read a number of biographies