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|  | Mapplethorpe by Patricia Morrisroe
Morrisoe spent six years researching Mapplethorpe's life and has come up with this probing and controversial biography--the subject of strident criticism from Patti Smith, one of Mapplethorpe's former lovers. The photographer, who died of AIDS at age 42 in 1989, is best known for his provocative still life photography. 32 pages of photographs. AUTHOR: Patricia Morrisroe
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Fox's Book of Martyrs by W. B. Forbush
This is a book which will never die--one of the greatest Christian classics. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness, telling the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history. AUTHOR: W. B. Forbush
PUBLISHER: Zondervan
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Henry Darger by Henry Darger
An outsider artist who is posthumously becoming an insider, Henry Darger (1892-1972) spent most of his life as a virtual hermit living in a furnished room in Chicago. After his death, his landlord entered his room and found the extraordinary collection of drawings and writings that Darger had spent his life producing. Darger had created an entire imaginary world, with its own geography, flora, fauna, and internal logic--a world populated by a race of moppets he called the Vivian Girls, who are constantly threatened and tortured by evil grown-ups. Darger manifested this world through his writings and through his elegant, phantasmagorical drawings, which he filled with imagery appropriated from magazines and advertisements. Today, Darger's work is prized by collectors and exhibited at major museums. He also inspired the name of a rock band, the Vivian Girls. AUTHOR: Henry Darger
PUBLISHER: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Ungentle Shakespeare by Katherine Duncan-Jones
This biographical study of Shakespeare considers his life in the context of the culture of the English Midlands of the 1560s and 1570s. AUTHOR: Katherine Duncan-Jones
PUBLISHER: Arden Shakespeare
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Ruined by Reading by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Lynne Sharon Schwartz says, Reading is what I get everything else (living) out of the way in order to do. For anyone who shares her obsession, reading this book about reading will be a fascinating experience. Schwartz writes of growing up in Brooklyn in a world shaped by books, and explores the links between life and reading. AUTHOR: Lynne Sharon Schwartz
PUBLISHER: Beacon Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Near the beginning of World War I, the great German physicist Werner Heisenberg paid a visit to an old friend and mentor, Niels Bohr, who lived in Copenhagen, hoping to get information from Bohr that would help him to build the nuclear bomb he was working on for Hitler. Since Bohr was part-Jewish and was working for the Allies, the meeting took on ominous and strained tones, as Michael Frayn's Drama Desk Award-winning play shows. The play premiered in London, where it won the 1998 Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards for best play. AUTHOR: Michael Frayn
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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