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Alma Katsu
4 books
Alma R. Hutchens
1 book
Almarie Guerra
1 book
Almasdi Syahza
1 book
Alma Villanueva
1 book
Al McOrmond
1 book
Almeno pseud
1 book
Almond
1 book
ALMUDENA FERNÁNDEZ VAQUERO
1 book
Almudena Grandes
Spanish writer
8 books
Almudena Martínez
1 book
Al-Muqaddasi
1 book
A. L. Nagar
1 book
A.L. Nagar
1 book
Al Nussbaum
2 books
Alois Carigiet
1 book
Alois Mlambo
1 book
Alois Riegl
1 book
Aloke Dutta
1 book
Alok Kothari
1 book
Alok Vaid-Menon
1 book
Alo Liliweri
3 books
Alona Frankel
1 book
Alona Pulde
1 book
Alondra Nelson
2 books
Alonso Salazar
1 book
Alonso Salazar J.
2 books
Alon Ziv
1 book
Alonzo J., III Strickland
1 book
Alonzo J. Strickland
1 book
Aloysio R.P Bellecio
1 book
Aloysius Croft
1 book
Al Perkins
3 books
Alpha C. Chiang
1 book
Alpha Group
1 book
Alpha Minds
1 book
Alpha Shange
1 book
Alphonse Daudet
2 books
Alphonse James Albert Symons
British author and biographer best known for his brilliant and unconventional biography The Quest for Corvo. Family economic difficulties obliged Symons to leave home and learn a trade at an early age. For three years he lived a life of drudgery, working as an apprentice to a furrier. His formal education was private and scanty; Symons considered himself self-educated and, as a writer, self-made. Employed as secretary and later director of the First Edition Club of London, he became a skilled bibliographer, an occupation he considered dreary and uncongenial to his personal literary and cultural aspirations. His well-received biography H.M. Stanley (1933) was followed by his magnum opus, The Quest for Corvo, a biography of the English author and eccentric Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), the self-styled Baron Corvo. Rolfe’s life had fascinated Symons for years—an earlier work, Frederick Baron Corvo, had been printed privately in 1927—and his approach to the subject in The Quest for Corvo, subtitled “An Experiment in Biography,” was novel in its anecdotal, fragmentary reconstruction of a life about which little factual evidence existed. The book won critical acclaim and came to be regarded as a masterpiece of modern biography. Symons’ other works include Emin, Governor of Equatoria (1928); A Bibliography of the First Editions of Books by William Butler Yeats (1924); the Anthology of ’Nineties Verse (1928), compiled and edited by Symons; and an uncompleted biography of Oscar Wilde. (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Blockquote
1 book
Alphonse Marie Mucha
1 book
Alphonso A Dunn
1 book
Alphonso Dunn
1 book
Al P. Mizell
1 book
Al Ramadan
1 book
Al Ries
9 books
A. L. Rowse
1 book
Al-Saadiq Banks
1 book
Al Sarrantino
1 book
Al Sarrantonio
1 book
Al Sarrantonio
5 books