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Description not available.An intimate look into the private world of a lifetime Hollywood star reveals her privileged London childhood, struggles as a young celebrity, many marriages, award-winning performances, and successes as a businesswoman and AIDS crusader. Reprint. AUTHOR: Alexander Walker
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | This Is Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich
Orson Welles (1915-1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as War of the Worlds to his cinematic masterpieces Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Othello, Macbeth, Touch of Evil, and Chimes at Midnight, Welles was a master storyteller. This is Orson Welles, a collection of penetrating and witty conversations between Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, includes insights into: Welles' radio, theater, film, and television work; Hollywood producers, directors, and stars; and almost everything else, from acting to magic, literature to comic strips, bullfighters to gangsters. AUTHOR: Jonathan Rosenbaum, Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | London by Peter Ackroyd
The city of London, which has been the setting for many of Peter Ackroyd`s novels and biographies, is the subject of this far-ranging portrait. An unorthodox history, LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY takes the city neighborhood by neighborhood and brings the city to life by means of profiles of its citizens--some famous, some not--as they endure the plague, civil war, the Great Fire of London, and the Blitz. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. AUTHOR: Peter Ackroyd
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Victoria's Daughters by Jerrold M. Packard
A biography of the five daughters of Great Britain's Queen Victoria. AUTHOR: Jerrold M. Packard
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Spirit of Fire by Ursula King
Spirit of Fire is the critically acclaimed biography of one of this century's most fascinating religious figures. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a Jesuit theologian and a scientist renowned for his pioneering field work in geology, paleontology, and human origins. He was also a mystic whose writings have inspired an international host of Teilhard societies, and a prophet in the expanding dialogue between religion and science. Spirit of Fire is lavishly illustrated with photographs and selections from Teilhard's writings. It is the ideal introduction to the life and thought of this modern Catholic mystic whose powerful vision and life-affirming spirituality speak even more vitally to the concerns of our time. AUTHOR: Ursula King
PUBLISHER: Orbis Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Raymond Roussel & the Republic of Dreams by Mark Ford
Poet John Ashbery wrote the preface to this life of the eccentric early-20th-century French poet whose linguistic play attracted Robbe-Grillet, Duchamp, and Cocteau. Based on chance or, conversely, elaborate but arbitrary procedural operations, Roussel's work was an early inspiration of the Surrealists, though he was reluctant to name himself among them. Here, Ford investigates his equally strange life and career. AUTHOR: Mark Ford
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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