Portal:Biography
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life and the times, which is or told by a different author. A biography is more than a list of impersonal facts (education, work, relationships, and death), it also portrays the subject's experience of those events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents the subject's story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experiences, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.
A
[edit]- Agricola, by Tacitus
- Anne Bradstreet and her time by Helen Stuart Campbell
- John James Audubon by John Burroughs
B
[edit]C
[edit]- Portrait of Julius Caesar by Suetonius
- List of Carthusians, 1800–1879 by William Douglas Parish
- Cicero And The Fall Of The Roman Republic by James Leigh Strachan-Davidson
- Life of Henry Clay by Carl Schurz
- The Poetical Works of William Cowper (introductory memoir) by William Benham
D
[edit]E
[edit]- St. Edmund, King and Martyr, by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham (955(?) - 1020(?)). A literary account of the martyrdom of St. Edmund, a King of England.
- Biographical Memoir of George Engelmann, by Charles A. White.
F
[edit]G
[edit]H
[edit]- Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Edward Woodberry (transcription project)
- Herschel by Hector Macpherson
- Augustine Herrman, Beginner of the Virginia Tobacco Trade, Merchant of New Amsterdam and First Lord of Bohemia Manor in Maryland by Leon Heck
- Sir William Herschel, his life and works by Edward Singleton Holden
- Right Reverend Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, D. D. First Bishop of Central Pennsylvania: A Biographical Sketch by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Jr.
- The life and times of Master John Hus by František Lützow
- John Huss: his life, teachings and death, after five hundred years by David Schley Schaff
J
[edit]K
[edit]- Kepler by Walter William Bryant
- Friedrich Kapp article from The Nation
L
[edit]- Notice de la Vie et des Ecrits de George Louis Le Sage (English) by John Playfair
- The Story of Abraham Lincoln by James Baldwin
- The Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324 by John Hugh Bowers
- Abraham Lincoln: An Essay by Carl Schurz
M
[edit]- A Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1888 by Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin
- President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, Thomas G. Masaryk, 1919 by Jan Herben
- Men of Kent and Kentishmen (1892) by John Hutchinson
P
[edit]- Albert Parsons, by Albert Parsons
- Edgar Allen Poe - How to know him by Charles Alphonso Smith (start transcription)
R
[edit]S
[edit]- Biography of Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Aviator
- Robert Louis Stevenson: a short biography by Edmund Gosse from 11th Edition Britannica
- Arthur Schopenhauer, his Life and Philosophy by Helen Zimmern, the influential work that introduced Schopenhauer and his philosophy to the English speaking world.
- Life of Pingali Suranarya (Pithapuram, 1941) (start transcription)
T
[edit]- Leo Tolstoy by Robert Nisbet Bain, 1903
V
[edit]W
[edit]- Life of Isaiah V. Williamson by John Wanamaker, pub. 1928
Collections
[edit]- Ælfric's Lives of Saints
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1888-1900)
- Biographia Hibernica (1822)
- A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers by Joseph McCabe (1945)
- A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen (1857) (incomplete) edited by Thomas Napier Thomson
- Biographies of Scientific Men by Arthur Bower Griffiths
- Cyclopædia of American Biographies (1903)
- The Cyclopædia of American Biography (1918)
- The Dictionary of Australasian Biography (1892)
- Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century by Henry Wace and William C. Piercy
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith
- Dictionary of National Biography edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee
- Goodspeed's Northwestern Arkansas/Biographical Appendix
- Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced The History of Their Times
- The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)
- The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, 1st-2nd century C.E., by Plutarch
- Men of 1914 (1915)
- The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 by James Grant Wilson (editor)
- Real Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis (early biographical sketches of Winston Churchill, Frederick Russell Burnham, et.al., written in 1906).
- Representative Men, 1850, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Heroes Every Child Should Know by H. W. Mabie
- The Beginner's American History by David H. Montgomery
- Lives of the Eminent Commanders by Cornelius Nepos
- Makers of British botany by Francis Wall Oliver, ed., 1913
- Men of Invention and Industry, 1884, by Samuel Smiles (biographies of British engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs).
- The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, 1910, by Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (includes collection of biographies of LGBT people)
- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 1st-2nd century C.E.
- A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
- The Women of the American Revolution
- Thom's Irish Who's Who (1923) by publisher Alexander Thom & Co
Other
[edit]- Bohemians in Central Kansas by Francis Joseph Swehla, Vít Hanzliček and Joseph Satran (1915)
- Pioneer Czechs in Colfax County by Rose Rosicky et al. (1933–1934)
Reference works
[edit]- "Biography," in Domestic Encyclopædia, by A. F. M. Willich, London: (1802)
- "Biography," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Biography," by Edmund William Gosse in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Biography," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
See also
[edit]Please see the related sub-indices: