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Richard Glover, An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber

Adam de la Peña

In 2003, de La Peña created and co-starred in a reality show, Comedy Central's I'm with Busey, in which he documented days in the life of his childhood idol, actor Gary Busey.

Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization

Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization is a 54 minute color documentary based on the life and thoughts of Nirad C. Chaudhuri.

André Castaigne

During a six-year period in France where he divided his time between a winter studio in Paris and a summer studio in Angoulême, he illustrated William Milligan Sloane's The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Richard Whiteing's Paris of To-Day and Bertha Runkle's The Helmet of Navarre.

Bronislava Poskrebysheva

In 1939, under pressure from her relatives, she visited Lavrentiy Beria alone to plead for the life of her arrested brother.

Carolyn Dennis

Their marriage and parenthood was completely unknown to both Dylan's fans and the media until the 2001 publication of Down the Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes.

David Ridgen

Ridgen's 2009 documentary, American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein, co-directed and co-produced with Nicolas Rossier, was about the life of controversial political scientist Norman Finkelstein.

Dirk Verhofstadt

On 8 June 2009 he hold the lecture A New Age of Reason on the life and actual influence of Thomas Paine who died 200 years ago.

Donna Lee

Brian Priestley Chasin’ the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker

First Cousin Once Removed

Documentary about the life of poet, translator, critic and university professor Edwin Honig and his struggles with Alzheimer's disease.

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Harper & Row, 1983, ISBN 0-06-011843-1) is a book by Hayden Herrera about the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, her art, and her relationship with muralist Diego Rivera.

Gidi Gov

In addition to his musical career, during the 1970s Gov also participated in the 1974 Israeli TV series "The Magic Door" (דלת הקסמים), and in the 1977 Israeli film "Masa Alonkot" (מסע אלונקות), and in Ram Loevy's 1978 film "Khirbet Khize", the 1978 film "Ha-Lehaka" ("The Troupe") which described the life in an Israeli military band, and the 1979 film "Dizengoff 99", and the 1979 film "Do not ask if I love" (אל תשאלי אם אני אוהב).

Gisela Legath

Gisela Legath from Eberau was a Burgenland woman who saved with the help of her two children Martin Legath and Frieda Legath the life of two Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II by providing a shelter in their barn.

Heinrich Hofmann

Later, he was accepted into the studio of Wilhelm von Schadow and there he created his first large painting: A scene from the life of Alboin, King of the Langobards.

Helen Fielding

Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, a sequence of novels and films that chronicle the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London as she tries to make sense of life and love.

Henry Hart Milman

In subsequent poetical works he was more successful, notably the Fall of Jerusalem (1820) and The Martyr of Antioch (1822, based on the life of Saint Margaret the Virgin), which was used as the basis for an oratorio by Arthur Sullivan.

Henry Roth

In 2005, ten years after Roth’s death, the first full biography of his life, the prize-winning Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, by literary scholar Steven G. Kellman, was published, followed in 2006 by Henry Roth’s centenary, which was marked by a literary tribute at the New York Public Library, sponsored by CCNY and organized by Lawrence I. Fox, Roth’s literary executor.

Illana Katz

By this time, Katz had spent six years researching the life of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, the last two years being a collaboration with Dr. Edward Ritvo.

Jeannette Walls

In 2009, Walls published her first novel, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, based on the life of her grandmother Lily Casey Smith.

Jon Avnet

He directed Up Close & Personal in 1996, which was loosely based on the life of Jessica Savitch.

Juan Bautista Muñoz

The first draft had been composed by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera in his Decadas (1511–25), which were supplemented shortly after by a small 1552 tract by Bartolomé de las Casas and the first part of the Historia (1535) of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (the rest of Las Casas and Oviedo would only appear in the 19th century; the life of Columbus by his son Ferdinand Columbus, only existed in an Italian edition (1571) at the time).

Karl Otfried Müller

J. W. Donaldson, “On the Life and Writings of Karl Otfried Müller” in History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, vol.

L'Appel du silence

L'Appel du Silence is a 1936 French film directed by Leo Poirier based on the life of Charles de Foucauld.

Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Indore

Starting from Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport it leads to the life line of city i.e. A.B. Road on Palasia Square.

Manegold of Lautenbach

Manegold's book also contained an account of the life of Gregory VII, reflecting the Vita by John the Deacon of Gregory the Great; this shares details with chronicles of Berthold of Reichenau and Bernold of St Blasien, writing in the part of southern Germany in which Manegold had sheltered after having to leave Alsace.

Margaux Marasigan

Margaux Elizalde-Marasigan is the beautiful and sophisticated adoptive daughter and later revealed to be a biological daughter of Julio Marasigan (Ariel Rivera) and Beatrice Elizalde-Marasigan (Janice de Belen), who grew up living the life of a princess as the heiress of country's largest shoe company.

Marquis James

Marquis James (August 29, 1891, Springfield, Missouri – November 19, 1955) was an American journalist and author, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his works The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston and The Life of Andrew Jackson.

Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision

Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision is a 1994 documentary film made by Freida Lee Mock about the life of American artist Maya Lin, whose best-known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Mutty Lall Seal

In 1878 Kissori Chand Mitra delivered a lecture on the life of Mutty Lall Seal calling him the "Rothschild of Calcutta".

My Year of Meats

Parallel to Jane's story is the life of Akiko Ueno, a former manga artist who specialized in horror scenes and is reluctantly married to a man working for BEEF-EX.

Opera Noire of New York

It was the first in a series that also includes A Tribute to Robert McFerrin and The Life and Times of Malcolm X.

Paul W. Bryant Museum

Among the exhibits at the museum are a Waterford Crystal houndstooth hat which commemorates the Coach's head-wear and the Daniel Moore painting used to create the 32-cent U.S. postage stamp which celebrated the life of Bryant.

Polly Thayer Starr

Increasingly aware of the fragility of her vision, she concentrated on lavish pastels of gladiolas with their bees and an increasingly abstract sequence of cyclamen flowers drawn in chalk on black paper with touches of color, as well as delicate series of graphite drawings based on the life cycle of the thistle.

Rebecca Johns

The novel follows the life of Elizabeth Báthory (Erzsebet Báthory), the "Blood Countess" who was one of the historical figures some believe inspired the fictional Dracula.

Richard Gwinnett

Their letters were subsequently published in two volumes entitled 'Pylades and Corinna; or memoirs of the lives, amours, and writings of R. G. and Mrs. E. Thomas, jun.… containing the letters and other miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse, which passed between them during a Courtship of above sixteen years … Published from their original manuscripts (by Philalethes) … To which is prefixed the life of Corinna, written by herself.'

Robert Claiborne

His Our Marvelous Native Tongue (also called The Life and Times of the English Language) is a well-known book about the origins and evolution of English, spanning subjects as diverse as the Indo-Europeans, the Saxons, the King James Bible, Pidgin English, and African American Vernacular English (also called 'Ebonics').

Sant'Andrea delle Fratte

In the cloister, the lunettes are frescoed with stories from the life of Saint Francesco by Marini, Francesco Cozza, and Filippo Gherardi.

Scientology in the United States

Among these documents was a plan to frame Gabe Cazares, the mayor of the city of Clearwater, Florida, with a staged hit-and-run accident; plans to discredit the skeptical organization CSICOP by spreading rumors that it was a front for the CIA; and a project called "Operation Freakout," aimed at ruining the life of author Paulette Cooper, author of an early book critical of the movement, The Scandal of Scientology.

Sport Mastermind

The first champion and Sport Mastermind 2008 was Chris Bell from Kent, who took The British and Irish Lions as his specialist subject in his heat and The Life and Career of Geoff Boycott in the Grand Final.

Tanvir Mokammel

Achin Pakhi (The Unknown Bard): A documentary on the life and musicology of Fakir Lalon Shah, the doyen among the wandering sect of the folk-singers of rural Bengal known as the Bauls.

The Africa House

The Africa House is an account of the life of soldier, pioneer white settler, politician and supporter of African independence Stewart Gore-Browne in relation to the building of his estate Shiwa Ngandu in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia.

The Nemesis of Faith

Following the earlier German Higher Critics, who argued for a historical approach to religious texts, David Strauss published Leben Jesu or The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined which argued that the events of the New Testament were not historical but rather mythical.

The Road To Mecca

A Road to Mecca - The Journey of Muhammad Asad, 2008 documentary on the life of Muhammad Asad, made by Austrian filmmaker Georg Misch

Tom Meets Zizou

Tom Meets Zizou (German title: Tom Meets Zizou – Kein Sommermärchen Not a Summer's Tale) is a documentary film by director Aljoscha Pause, based on the life and career of German football player Thomas Broich.

Treatise of the Three Impostors

According to historian Silvia Berti, the book was originally published as La Vie et L'Esprit de Spinosa (The Life and Spirit of Spinoza),containing both a biography of Benedict Spinoza and the anti-religious essay, and was later republished under the title Traité sur les trois imposteurs.

Vivekananda and meditation

Meditation played a very important role in the life and teachings of Vivekananda.

Vladimir de Pachmann

Edward Blickstein and Gregor Benko, Chopin's Prophet: The life of pianist Vladimir de Pachmann, Scarecrow Press, 2013

Wassily de Basil

He also instigated a design competition for an original Australian ballet, which was won by Donald Friend with designs for a ballet based on a fictitious event in the life of Ned Kelly.

Whirligig

In Whirligig, a novel by Paul Fleischman, a boy makes a mistake that takes the life of a young girl and is sent on a cross country journey building whirligigs.

Willie Stark

Willie Stark is an opera in three acts and nine scenes by Carlisle Floyd to his own libretto, after the novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, which in turn was inspired by the life of the Louisiana governor Huey Long.