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Biography

371,202 works / 50,569 ebooks Search for books with subject Biography.

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places

United States, France, Great Britain, India, Germany, Italy, China, Soviet Union, England, Spain, Japan, Poland, Canada, Russia (Federation), Russia, Brazil, Greece, Australia, Rome, Mexico

people

Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Muḥammad Prophet (d. 632), Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Gandhi Mahatma (1869-1948), George Washington (1732-1799), Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837)

times

20th century, 19th century, 18th century, Civil War, 1861-1865, 17th century, 16th century, 1945-, Revolution, 1775-1783, 21st century, Early modern, 1500-1700

Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject

Plutarch, 2,028 books
Giovanni Boccaccio, 408 books
14th Dalai Lama, 229 books
Thomas Merton, 186 books
Alexandre Dumas, 160 books
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 128 books
R. H. Bruce Lockhart, 120 books
Mike Venezia, 100 books
Jeff Savage, 83 books
Sarah Tieck, 81 books
James Haskins, 80 books
Nathan Aaseng, 80 books
Joanne Mattern, 80 books
Bill Gutman, 75 books
Henri Troyat, 68 books
Kathleen Tracy, 67 books
Stewart, Mark, 63 books
Carol Greene, 62 books
David A. Adler, 61 books
Benjamin Franklin, 61 books
William R. Sanford, 57 books
Bob Italia, 55 books
Hal Marcovitz, 54 books
Ann Gaines, 52 books
Suetonius, 50 books

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