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237 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Adolph Freiherr KniggePerson · Music memorabiliaAdolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr Knigge (16 October 17526 May 1796) was a German writer, Freemason, and a leading member of the Order of the Illuminati.
Agnes RepplierAuthor · BooksAgnes Repplier (April 1, 1855 – December 15, 1950) was an American essayist.
Agustina Bessa-LuísAuthor · BooksIllustration — Agustina Bessa-Luís in 1969
Alan BullockAuthor · BooksAlan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock (13 December 1914 – 2 February 2004) was a British historian.
Albert Christoph DiesPerson · Music memorabiliaAlbert Christoph Dies (175528 December 1822) was a German painter, engraver, and biographer most noted for his biography of Joseph Haydn, although it is now considered sentimental and not…
Alberto DinesAuthor · BooksAlberto Dines (February 19, 1932 – May 22, 2018) was a Brazilian journalist and writer.
Alexander BekAuthor · Books
Alexander Fraser TytlerAuthor · BooksAlexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee FRSE (15 October 17475 January 1813) was a Scottish advocate, judge, writer, and historian who was a Professor of Universal History and of Greek…
Alexander Wheelock ThayerPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Alexandru MacedonskiAuthor · BooksAlexandru Macedonski (alekˈsandru mat͡ʃeˈdonski; also rendered as Al.
Alfred EinsteinAuthor · BooksAlfred Einstein (December 30, 1880February 13, 1952) was a German-American musicologist and music editor.
Alfred von ReumontAuthor · BooksAlfred von Reumont (15 August 1808 – 27 April 1887) was a German scholar and diplomatist.
Alice ArlenAuthor · BooksAlice Arlen (November 6, 1940 – February 29, 2016) was an American screenwriter, best known for Silkwood (1983), which she wrote with Nora Ephron.
Alice Stone BlackwellAuthor · BooksAlice Stone Blackwell (September 14, 1857 – March 15, 1950) was an American feminist, suffragist, journalist, radical socialist, and human rights advocate.
Alicia Dujovne OrtizAuthor · BooksAlicia Dujovne Ortiz (born in 1940) is an Argentine journalist and author.
Alistair MacLeanAuthor · BooksAlistair Stuart MacLean (Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist, who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories.
Allan CunninghamAuthor · BooksIllustration — Allan Cunningham, Henry Room, c.1840
Alma MahlerPerson · Music memorabiliaAlma Mahler-Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite.
Amelia OpieAuthor · BooksAmelia Opie (born Amelia Alderson; 12 November 1769 – 2 December 1853) was an English author and abolitionist who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828.
André MauroisAuthor · BooksAndré Maurois (French: [mɔʁwa]; born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog; 26 July 1885 – 9 October 1967) was a French author.
André SuarèsAuthor · BooksAndré Suarès, born Isaac Félix Suarès (12 June 1868, Marseille – 7 September 1948, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés) was a French poet and critic.
Andrea WulfArtist · Comics and comic artAndrea Wulf (born 1967) is a German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.
Andrei TarkovskyPerson · Film memorabiliaAndrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin.
Andrew BergmanPerson · Film memorabiliaAndrew Bergman (born February 20, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. His best-known films include Blazing Saddles, The In-Laws, The Freshman and Striptease.
Andrew MangoAuthor · BooksAndrew James Alexander Mango (14 June 1926 – 6 July 2014) was a British BBC employee and author.
Andrew MotionAuthor · BooksSir Andrew Motion FRSL (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009.
Annette KolbAuthor · BooksAnnette Kolb (pseudonym of Anna Mathilde Kolb) was an author, journalist, emigrée and pacifist.
Antigonus of CarystusArtist · SculptureAntigonus of Carystus was a writer, sculptor, poet, historian and biographer (295–300). He was born in Karystos.
Anton PraetoriusAuthor · BooksAnton Praetorius (1560 – 6 December 1613) was a German Calvinist pastor who spoke out against the persecution of witches (witchhunts, witchcraft trials) and against torture.
Aram SaroyanAuthor · BooksAram Saroyan (born September 25, 1943) is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright, who is especially known for his minimalist poetry, famous examples of which…
Archibald GeikieAuthor · Maps and atlasesSir Archibald Geikie (28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924) was a Scottish geologist and writer.
Arild StubhaugAuthor · BooksArild Stubhaug (born 25 May 1948) is a Norwegian biographer and poet. He has won several literary awards for his biographies of Norwegian mathematicians.
Armand LanouxAuthor · BooksArmand Lanoux (24 October 1913 – 23 March 1983) was a French writer.
Arthur HutchingsPerson · Music memorabiliaArthur James Bramwell Hutchings (14 July 1906 – 13 November 1989) was an English musicologist, composer and professor of music.
Ascanio CondiviAuthor · BooksAscanio Condivi (1525 – 10 December 1574) was an Italian painter and writer. Generally regarded as a mediocre artist, he is primarily remembered as the biographer of Michelangelo.
AsserAuthor · BooksAsser (lang; died c. 909) was a Welsh monk from St David's in Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s.
Astrid VarnayPerson · Music memorabiliaIbolyka Astrid Maria Varnay (25 April 1918 – 4 September 2006) was a Swedish-born American dramatic soprano of Hungarian descent.
Attar of NishapurAuthor · BooksFaridoddin Abu Hamed Mohammad Attar Nishapuri (c. 1145 – c.
Austin DobsonAuthor · BooksIllustration — 1911 portrait of Dobson by Frank Brooks
BāṇabhaṭṭaAuthor · BooksBāṇabhaṭṭa was a 7th-century Sanskrit prose writer and poet from India. He was the court poet of Emperor Harsha, during his reign at Kanyakubja.
Carol ShieldsAuthor · BooksCarol Ann Shields (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S.
Cecilia Lucy BrightwellEngraver · PrintsCecilia Lucy Brightwell (1811–1875), known to her contemporaries as Lucy Brightwell, was an English etcher and author, mostly of volumes of short biographies intended for young people.
Charles Heath WilsonArtist · Paintings
Charles JohnsonAuthor · BooksCaptain Charles Johnson was the British author of the 1724 book A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, whose identity remains a mystery.
Charles Pinot DuclosAuthor · BooksCharles Pinot (or Pineau) Duclos (lang; 12 February 1704 – 26 March 1772) was a French writer and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des…
Charles Robert LeslieArtist · PaintingsCharles Robert Leslie (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859) was an American[1] genre painter and writer, who was born and spent his career in England.
Colin MackenzieAuthor · Maps and atlases
Conrad of HirsauPerson · Music memorabiliaConrad of Hirsau or Hirschau (Conradus Hirsaugiensis; c. 1070) was a German Benedictine monk and writer at the Hirsau Abbey.
Constant von WurzbachAuthor · BooksConstantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (11 April 1818 – 17 August 1893) was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author.
Cornelius NeposAuthor · BooksCornelius Nepos (c. 110 BC – c.
Daniel Coit GilmanAuthor · BooksDaniel Coit Gilman (July 6, 1831 – October 13, 1908) was an American educator and academic.
David LagercrantzAuthor · BooksDavid Lagercrantz (born 4 September 1962) is a Swedish journalist and bestselling writer known as the author of I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic and The Girl in the Spider's Web, the fourth through…
Diana Serra CaryAuthor · BooksDiana Serra Cary (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery; October 29, 1918 – February 24, 2020), known as Baby Peggy, was an American child film actress, vaudevillian, author and silent film historian.
Diane MiddlebrookAuthor · BooksDiane Helen Middlebrook (Wood; April 16, 1939 – December 15, 2007) was an American biographer, poet, and teacher. She taught feminist studies for many years at Stanford University.
Dick PoundAuthor · BooksRichard William Duncan Pound (born March 22, 1942), better known as Dick Pound, is a Canadian swimming champion, lawyer, and spokesman for ethics in sport.
Dmitry MerezhkovskyAuthor · BooksDmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (Дми́трий Серге́евич Мережко́вский; 14 August 1865 – 9 December 1941) was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic.
E. P. ThompsonAuthor · BooksEdward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993) was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner.
Edgar Lee MastersAuthor · BooksEdgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist.
Edna O'BrienAuthor · BooksJosephine Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.
Edward Frederic BensonAuthor · BooksEdward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and short story writer.
Edward John TrelawnyAuthor · BooksEdward John Trelawny (13 November 179213 August 1881) was an English biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley…
EinhardAuthor · BooksEinhard (also Eginhard or Einhart; E(g)inhardus; c. 775 – 14 March 840) was a Frankish scholar and courtier.
Eleanor FarjeonAuthor · BooksEleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire.
Elizabeth Cabot AgassizAuthor · BooksElizabeth Cabot Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; Cary; December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe…
Emma AdlerAuthor · BooksIllustration — Emma and Victor Adler (1878)
Erika RosenbergAuthor · BooksErika Rosenberg (born 24 June 1951) is an Argentine author, interpreter and journalist. She wrote a biography of Emilie Schindler.
Etty HillesumAuthor · BooksEsther "Etty" Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of…
Eugen RelgisAuthor · BooksEugen D. Relgis (backward reading of Eisig D. Sigler; first name also Eugenio, Eugène or Eugene, last name also Siegler or Siegler Watchel;
Eustace MullinsAuthor · BooksEustace Clarence Mullins Jr. (March 9, 1923 – February 2, 2010) was an American writer, white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and Holocaust denier.
Eva SchlossPhotographer · PhotographyEva Schloss (Geiringer; 11 May 1929 – 3 January 2026) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor, memoirist, and the stepdaughter of Otto Frank, the father of Margot and diarist Anne Frank.
Ève CurieAuthor · BooksÈve Denise Curie Labouisse (ɛv dəniz kyʁi labwis; December 6, 1904 – October 22, 2007) was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist.
Felix DahnAuthor · BooksFelix Ludwig Julius Dahn (9 February 1834 – 3 January 1912) was a German law professor and nationalist author, poet and historian.
Frances PerkinsAuthor · BooksFrances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to…
Francisco DomeneAuthor · BooksFrancisco Domene (born 12 February 1960) is a Spanish writer, narrator, novelist, and poet.
Francisco UmbralAuthor · Books
François AragoAuthor · BooksDominique François Jean Arago (Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó), known simply as François Arago (lang; Francesc Aragó;
Frans G. BengtssonAuthor · BooksFrans Gunnar Bengtsson (4 October 1894 – 19 December 1954) was a Swedish novelist, essayist, poet and biographer.
Franz Xaver NiemetschekPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Portrait of Niemetschek
Fyodor DostoyevskyAuthor · BooksFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 18219 February 1881) was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist.
Gail SheehyAuthor · BooksGail Sheehy (born Gail Henion; November 27, 1936 – August 24, 2020) was an American author, journalist, and lecturer.
Gary BottingAuthor · BooksGary Norman Arthur Botting (born 19 July 1943) is a Canadian legal scholar and criminal defense lawyer (now retired) as well as a poet, playwright, novelist, and critic of literature and…
Gennaro SangiulianoAuthor · BooksGennaro Sangiuliano (born 6 June 1962) is an Italian journalist, writer, and politician who served as Minister of Culture in the Meloni Cabinet.
Georg Nikolaus von NissenAuthor · BooksIllustration — Georg Nikolaus Nissen; painting by Ferdinand Jagemann, 1809
George LilyAuthor · Maps and atlasesGeorge Lily (died 1559) was an English Roman Catholic priest, humanist scholar, biographer, topographer and cartographer.
George MikesAuthor · BooksAssociated with Health First. Indexed under Criminal Justice and Corr
George WoodcockAuthor · BooksGeorge Woodcock (May 8, 1912 – January 28, 1995) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist and literary critic.
Giorgio VasariDesigner · DesignGiorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors,…
Guy de PourtalèsAuthor · BooksIllustration — Pourtalès c.
H. C. Robbins LandonPerson · Music memorabiliaHoward Chandler Robbins Landon (March 6, 1926 – November 20, 2009) was an American musicologist, journalist, historian and broadcaster, best known for his work in rediscovering the huge…
Heinrich Eduard JacobAuthor · BooksHeinrich Eduard Jacob (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1967) was a German and American journalist and author.
Heinrich MannIllustrator · IllustrationLuiz Heinrich Mann (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈman]; March 27, 1871 – March 11, 1950), best known as simply Heinrich Mann, was a German writer known for his sociopolitical novels.
Henri AmourouxAuthor · BooksHenri Amouroux (1 July 1920 in Périgueux, Dordogne – 5 August 2007 in Le Mesnil-Mauger) was a French historian and journalist.
Henri BarbusseArtist · PaintingsHenri Barbusse (lang; 17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist.
Henri GhéonAuthor · BooksHenri Ghéon (15 March 1875 – 13 June 1944), born Henri Vangeon in Bray-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, was a French playwright, novelist, poet and critic.
Hervey AllenAuthor · BooksWilliam Hervey Allen Jr. (December 8, 1889 – December 28, 1949) was an American educator, poet, and writer.
Hilaire BellocAuthor · BooksJoseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 187016 July 1953) was a French-English writer and political activist.
Humphrey CarpenterAuthor · BooksHumphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J. R. R.
Hunter DaviesAuthor · BooksEdward Hunter Davies (born 7 January 1936) is a British author, journalist and broadcaster. His books include the only authorised biography of the Beatles.
Imogen HolstPerson · Music memorabiliaImogen Clare Holst (von Holst; 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist and festival administrator.
Iris MurdochAuthor · BooksDame Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher.
Isaac DeutscherAuthor · BooksIsaac Deutscher (Izaak Deutscher; 3 April 1907 – 19 August 1967) was a Polish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom before the outbreak of World…
Ishwar Chandra VidyasagarAuthor · BooksIshwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar[1], was an Indian educator and social reformer of the 19th century.[2]
Izabela Sadoveanu-EvanAuthor · BooksIsabella Sadoveanu, Izabela Morțun, Izabela Sadoveanu-Andrei
Jahn Otto JohansenAuthor · BooksJahn Otto Johansen (3 May 1934 – 1 January 2018) was a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, foreign correspondent and non-fiction writer.
James BoswellAuthor · BooksJames Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 (N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh.
James HoggAuthor · BooksJames Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English.
Jan Erik VoldPerson · Music memorabiliaJan Erik Vold (born 18 October 1939) is a Norwegian lyric poet, reciter, translator and author.
Jean SchlumbergerAuthor · BooksJean Schlumberger (born Paul Conrad Nikolaus Johann Schlumberger; 26 May 1877 – 25 October 1968) was a French writer, journalist and poet.
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-ConstantEngraver · PrintsJean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (also known as Benjamin-Constant), born Jean-Joseph Constant (10 June 1845 – 26 May 1902), was a French painter and etcher best known for his Oriental subjects…
Jean-Paul SartreAuthor · BooksJean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (US also; French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, political activist, and writer, considered a leading figure in…
Jeanne ModiglianiArtist · PaintingsJeanne Modigliani (born Giovanna Hébuterne, 29 November 1918 – 27 July 1984) was an Italian-French historian of Jewish art mostly known for her biographical research on her father, School…
Jeffrey Karl OchsnerDesigner · DesignJeffrey Karl Ochsner (born 1950) is an architect, architectural historian, and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Johan DerksenAuthor · BooksPublisher, editor-in-chief, author, columnist, television presenter
Johann Nikolaus ForkelPerson · Music memorabiliaJohann Nikolaus Forkel (22 February 1749 – 20 March 1818) was a German musicologist and music theorist, generally regarded as among the founders of modern musicology.
John AikinAuthor · BooksJohn Aikin (15 January 1747 – 7 December 1822) was an English medical doctor and surgeon. Later in life he devoted himself wholly to biography and writing in periodicals.
John AubreyAuthor · Books
John BuchanAuthor · BooksJohn Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, British Army officer, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of…
John Gibson LockhartAuthor · BooksJohn Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor.
John LehmannAuthor · BooksIllustration — John Lehmann (seated) with sister Rosamond Lehmann and Lytton Strachey
John OpieArtist · PaintingsJohn Opie (16 May 1761 – 9 April 1807) was a British painter whose subjects included many prominent men and women of his day, members of the British royal family and others who were notable…

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