A world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes in the engrossing The Man Who Would Be Sherlock.
By carefully critiquing these biographies and reimagining these nine men, Nine Lives of William Shakespeare creates a unique picture of how this playwright became Shakespeare as he is understood today.
... William Robertson , male 20-30 and female 15-20 . 57 Caddo Parish , Louisiana , Conveyance Book D : 555–556 , Mary Blount , wife of William Robinson , grantor , 25 January 1849 , photocopies in author's pos- session . 58 U.S. Census of ...
. . The book works on two levels, much like a good Holmes case. First, it is a fluid story of a crime. . .
Here, now, in The Strange Case of Dr. Doyle by first-time son/father writing team Daniel Friedman, MD, and Eugene Friedman, MD, you are cordially invited to join a recreation of that tour.
Van Allen sifts facts from fiction to construct as true a portrait of Riley as possible in the context of the society in which he lived."--BOOK JACKET.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” (Booklist). “Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky ...
Suddenly, reading became fun. Coming right off the heels of George Lucas and bestselling Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones is quickly developing a reputation as a master biographer of the creative geniuses of our time.
... William and Queen Mary . The apostolical injunction , he said , was that prayers should be made for all in authority ; and William and Mary were visibly in author- ity . His Jacobite friends loudly blamed his inconsistency . How , they ...
Author of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and dozens of other children's classics, Brown all but invented the picture book as we know it today.