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In this biography of pioneering film actress Lillian Gish, author Affron draws on interviews, Gish's letters, and excerpts from her unpublished autobiography to chronicle her impressive career, from the early 1900s up until her death in 1993. In doing so, he illustrates a correlation between Gish's development as an actress and the evolution of cinema, starting with its early beginnings in the 1910s and '20s, when silent film director D.W. Griffith discovered the talented starlet. AUTHOR: Charles Affron
PUBLISHER: University of California Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Build Me An Ark by Brenda Peterson
Peterson's memoir traces her life with animals: from the Rocky Mountains to the Florida Keys to New York City she has always bonded with animals of all kinds. Peterson talks about her affinity for bears, Siberian huskies, and dolphins, among other animals. AUTHOR: Brenda Peterson
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Nowhere Man by Robert Rosen
This controversial account focuses on John Lennon's life from 1975 to '80, his final five years in which he and Yoko Ono dropped out of the public spotlight to raise their son, Sean. Author Robert Rosen, who claims to have read Lennon's private, unpublished diaries, asserts that Lennon was a schizophrenic, who contemplated suicide in between delusions of being Jesus Christ. AUTHOR: Robert Rosen
PUBLISHER: Quick American Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Nathan Bedford Forrest by Jack Hurst, Jeff Riggenbach
Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was an untutored guerrilla. He was so tenacious that General Sherman called him a devil who should be hunted down and killed if it costs 10,000 lives and bankrupts the treasury. Now this epic figure is restored to human dimensions in an exemplary biography. 3 maps. AUTHOR: Jack Hurst, Jeff Riggenbach
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Sir Francis Drake by Roy Gerrard
A spirited retelling of the life of explorer Sir Francis Drake. Watercolor illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Roy Gerrard
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Into Africa by Martin Dugard
David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer, was a frequent visitor to the African interior during the 19th century, and one of its most exciting and prolific chroniclers. So his disappearance in the late 1860s while questing for the Nile`s source created an immediate uproar. The journey to get the scoop of the century fell to Henry David Stanley, who spent three years hunting the missing doctor down. That adventure is recast in Dugard`s INTO AFRICA. Dugard, himself an explorer and author of FARTHER THAN ANY MAN, reimagines not only the search, drawing on papers and correspondence, but also the country itself in its context of mystery and home to the unknown. AUTHOR: Martin Dugard
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies
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