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Humez, Jean McMahon.   Harriet Tubman : the Life and the Life Stories. 2003  921/T79h

Bacall, Lauren.   By Myself and Then Some. 2005  921/B121bL

Briggs, Julia.   Virginia Woolf: an Inner Life. 2005  921/W885br

Buckley, William.   Miles gone by: a literary autobiography. 2004  921/B8561bL

Burstein, Andrew.   Jefferson’s Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello. 2005  921/J359bu

Carwardine, Richard.   Lincoln: a Life of Purpose and Power. 2006  921/L63c

Clinton, Bill.   My Life. 2004  921/C6175c

Cohen, Charles D.   The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing but the Seuss: a Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel. 2004  921/Se81c

Conway, Flo.   Dark Hero of the Information Age: in Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics. 2005  921/W637c

Didion, Joan.   The Year of Magical Thinking. 2005  921/D5625d

D’Antonio, Michael.   Hershey: Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams. 2006  921/H439d

Franklin, John Hope.   Mirror to America: the Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. 2005  921/F8543f

Fruchter, Rena.   Dudley Moore: an Intimate Portrait. 2005  921/M7821f

Goldsmith, Barbara.   Obsessive Genius: the Inner World of Marie Curie. 2005  921/C92go

Gould, Carol Grant.   The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist. 2004  921/B391g

Grant, James.   John Adams : a Party of One. 2005  921/Ad18g

Heinemann, Larry.   Black Virgin Mountain: a Return to Vietnam. 2005  921/H3645h

Huxtable, Ada Louise.   Frank Lloyd Wright: a Penguin Life. 2004  921/W932h

Jacobs, Alan.   The Narnian: the Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis. 2005  921/L584j

Klein, Edward.   Farewell, Jackie: a Portrait of Her Final Days. 2004  921/On13kLe

Leavitt, David.   The Man Who Knew Too Much : Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. 2006  921/T845L

Mansfield, Stephen.   Pope Benedict XVI: his Life and Mission. 2005  921/B4345m

Martinson, Deborah.   Lillian Hellman: a Life with Foxes and Scoundrels. 2005  921/H368ma

McCourt, Frank.   Teacher Man : a Memoir. 2005  921/M1372ma

Morton, Andrew.   Diana, in Pursuit of Love. 2004  921/D542ma

Noonan, Peggy.   John Paul the Great : Remembering a Spiritual Father. 2005  921/J6135n

Oppenheimer, Jerry.   Front Row: Anna Wintour, the cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue’s Editor-In Chief. 2005  921/W738o

Powers, Ron.   Mark Twain : a Life. 2005  921/T911pr

Reynolds, David S..   Walt Whitman. 2005  921/W596re

Riggs, David.   The World of Christopher Marlowe. 2005  921/M343r

Rubin, Gretchen Craft.   Forty Ways to Look at JFK. 2005  921/K383ru

Trapp, Agathe.   Agathe von Trapp: Memories before & after The Sound of Music. 2003  921/T6893t

Webb, Nick.   Wish You Were Here: the Official Biography of Douglas Adams. 2003  921/Ad171w

Wilentz, Sean.   Andrew Jackson. 2005  921/J132w

Williamson, Edwin.   Borges: a Life. 2004  921/B6443w

Reference Books

American Men and Women in Science : a Biographical Directory of Today’s Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences. 2005  Ref 925/AM

Contemporary Authors. 2000  Ref 920/CO

Current Biography. 2000  Ref 920/CU

Dictionary of Literary Biography. 2000  Ref 920/DI

Directory of Physicians in the United States. 2000  REF 920.73 DI

Encyclopedia of World Biography. 1998  REF 920 EN

Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. 2000  REF 920.73 MA

Native American Women : a biographical dictionary. 2001  Ref 920.72 NA

Newsmakers. 2000  REF 920 NE

Official ABMS Directory. 2000  REF 920.73 OF

Bowder, Diana.   Who Was Who in the Greek World. 1982  920 WH

Butler, Alban.   Butler’s Lives of the Saints. 2003  Ref 922/BU

Henderson, Lesley.   Twentieth-century Crime and Mystery Writers. 1991  REF 920 TW

Krismann, Carol.   Encyclopedia of American Women in Business. 2005  REF 920.72 KR

Smith, Jesse Carney.   Notable Black American men. 1999  REF 920.73 NO


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