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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.
  1. ^ Hitchens, Christopher (2005). Thomas Jefferson: Author of America. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-059896-4.

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