The Eminent Lives series is HarperCollins' series of "brief biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures."[1] The general editor of the series was James Atlas.
The series includes books by:
Robert Gottlieb on George Balanchine
Paul Johnson on George Washington
Christopher Hitchens on Thomas Jefferson
Michael Korda on Ulysses S. Grant
Francine Prose on Caravaggio
Edmund Morris on Ludwig van Beethoven
Joseph Epstein on Alexis de Tocqueville
Peter Kramer on Sigmund Freud
Karen Armstrong on Muhammad
Bill Bryson on William Shakespeare
Matt Ridley on Francis Crick
Ross King on Niccolò Machiavelli.
^Hitchens, Christopher (2005). Thomas Jefferson: Author of America. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-059896-4.
Little is definitively known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a principal source for the history of ancient...
The EminentLives series is HarperCollins' series of "brief biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures." The general editor of the series...
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ISBN 978-0205358786. Bryson, Bill (2007). Shakespeare: The World as Stage. EminentLives. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-074022-1. OCLC 136782567. Dunton-Downer...
The Haedong Goseungjeon (translated most commonly as the "Lives of Eminent Korean Monks") was a compilation of mostly Korean Buddhist hagiographies, notably...
"Upstart Crow". Bryson, Bill (2007). Shakespeare: The World as Stage. EminentLives. New York City: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0062564627. Chambers, E....
Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey (one of the older members of the Bloomsbury Group), first published in 1918, and consisting of biographies...
Nation Books, ISBN 1560255803 2005 Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, EminentLives/Atlas Books/HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0060598964 2007 "Thomas Paine's...
The words "elaborately ironical" are Adam's. Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Book IX, Chapter 11, Section 71 A. Griffiths, "Seven...
The Memoirs of Eminent Monks (Chinese: 高僧傳; pinyin: Gāosēng Zhuàn), also known as the Biographies of Eminent Monks, is a compilation of biographies of...
Cambridge Core. Bryson, Bill (2007). Shakespeare: The World as Stage. EminentLives. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-074022-1. Chambers, E. K. (1930a). William...
(2006). Francis Crick: discoverer of the genetic code. Ashland, OH: EminentLives, Atlas Books. ISBN 0-06-082333-X. Rosenfeld I (2010). DNA: A Graphic...
and Lycophron, a man of intelligence. According to the book Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Periander, in a fit of rage, kicked his wife or...
and Technology History Wiki" (PDF). 16 May 2022. Nicolaas A. Rupke, EminentLives in Twentieth-Century Science and Religion, page 300, Peter Lang, 2009...
The Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men comprised ten volumes of Dionysius Lardner's 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829–1846). Aimed...
many well-known pirates. A notable early collection of biographies of eminent men and women in the United Kingdom was Biographia Britannica (1747–1766)...
2009. Ridley, M. (2006) Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (EminentLives) New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-082333-X. Anne Sayre, "Rosalind...
is known mostly from the account given in Diogenes Laërtius' Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. He is also mentioned in passing by Plutarch and...
Diogenes Laërtius Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Book IX, Chapter 11, Section 64, 65 [2] Diogenes Laërtius Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Book IX...
Publishers; 192 pp, ISBN 0-06-082333-X; this short book is in the publisher's EminentLives series. Light Is A Messenger, the life and science of William Lawrence...
In the United States, eminent domain is the power of a state or the federal government to take private property for public use while requiring just compensation...