Author Biography Books | Summaries & Audio

101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling

by Holger Weßling • 2019

From welfare to a billion dollars: the backstory of Hogwarts in 101 digestible facts.

📚 Literary Trivia 🔍 Behind The Books 💰 Rags To Riches

101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling Summary

101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling 91%

From welfare to a billion dollars: the backstory of Hogwarts in 101 digestible facts.

by Holger Weßling 2019

📚 Literary Trivia 🔍 Behind The Books 💰 Rags To Riches

William Faulkner

by André Bleikasten • 2017

His family, his affair, his South, his demons: Faulkner's novels were his life recast as myth.

4.23

📖 Literary Biography 🌳 Southern Literature 🌀 Stream Of Consciousness

William Faulkner 91%

His family, his affair, his South, his demons: Faulkner's novels were his life recast as myth.

by André Bleikasten 2017

4.23

13 ratings

📖 Literary Biography 🌳 Southern Literature 🌀 Stream Of Consciousness

Anne McCaffrey

by Robin Roberts • 2007

How a failed marriage and a move to Ireland gave science fiction its most beloved dragons.

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📚 Literary Biography 🚀 Women In Science Fiction ✍️ Creative Process

Anne McCaffrey 91%

How a failed marriage and a move to Ireland gave science fiction its most beloved dragons.

by Robin Roberts 2007

4.43

5k+ ratings

📚 Literary Biography 🚀 Women In Science Fiction ✍️ Creative Process

Seldom Disappointed

by Tony Hillerman • 2001

Wounded infantryman, journalist, 45-year-old professor: the unlikely path to the Navajo mysteries.

4.01

794

✍️ Writer'S Memoir 📝 Craft Of Writing 🏹 Native American Culture

Seldom Disappointed 90%

Wounded infantryman, journalist, 45-year-old professor: the unlikely path to the Navajo mysteries.

by Tony Hillerman 2001

4.01

794 ratings

✍️ Writer'S Memoir 📝 Craft Of Writing 🏹 Native American Culture

Charles Dickens

by Claire Tomalin • 2011

He hid a secret mistress, idealized dead girls, and read aloud until it killed him.

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📚 Literary Biography 🖋️ Victorian Authors 💔 Childhood Trauma

Charles Dickens 90%

He hid a secret mistress, idealized dead girls, and read aloud until it killed him.

by Claire Tomalin 2011

3.92

7k+ ratings

📚 Literary Biography 🖋️ Victorian Authors 💔 Childhood Trauma

The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes

by Andrew Lycett • 2007

Holmes made him famous and miserable. Doyle preferred séances, battlefields, and righting wrongs.

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📚 Literary Biography 👑 Victorian England 🔍 Detective Fiction

The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes Summary

The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes 90%

Holmes made him famous and miserable. Doyle preferred séances, battlefields, and righting wrongs.

by Andrew Lycett 2007

3.91

299 ratings

📚 Literary Biography 👑 Victorian England 🔍 Detective Fiction

Q's Legacy

by Helene Hanff • 1985

A professor's lectures led to a London bookshop, twenty years of letters, and accidental fame.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Book Collecting 🎓 Self-Education

Q's Legacy 90%

A professor's lectures led to a London bookshop, twenty years of letters, and accidental fame.

by Helene Hanff 1985

4.05

2k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Book Collecting 🎓 Self-Education

A Boy Named Shel

by Lisa Rogak • 2007

He drew for Playboy, wrote for Johnny Cash, and authored The Giving Tree. Then he vanished.

3.42

572

📚 Children'S Authors 🎵 Songwriters ✏️ Creative Process

A Boy Named Shel 90%

He drew for Playboy, wrote for Johnny Cash, and authored The Giving Tree. Then he vanished.

by Lisa Rogak 2007

3.42

572 ratings

📚 Children'S Authors 🎵 Songwriters ✏️ Creative Process

J.R.R. Tolkien

by Humphrey Carpenter • 1977

Orphaned, Catholic, and obsessed with dragons: the life that forged The Lord of the Rings.

4.06

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📖 Literary Biography 🌍 World-Building 🧙 Fantasy Literature

J.R.R. Tolkien 90%

Orphaned, Catholic, and obsessed with dragons: the life that forged The Lord of the Rings.

by Humphrey Carpenter 1977

4.06

17k+ ratings

📖 Literary Biography 🌍 World-Building 🧙 Fantasy Literature

Dostoevsky

by Joseph Frank • 2002

How Siberia and a near-execution forged the vision behind the most searching novels of faith.

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📚 Literary Biography 🇷🇺 Russian Literature 🙏 Faith And Doubt

Dostoevsky 90%

How Siberia and a near-execution forged the vision behind the most searching novels of faith.

by Joseph Frank 2002

4.49

1k+ ratings

📚 Literary Biography 🇷🇺 Russian Literature 🙏 Faith And Doubt

Autobiography of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain • 2010

Sealed for a century: Twain's unfiltered life, with the portrait his daughter wrote tucked inside.

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9k+

🖋️ Literary Lives 🇺🇸 American Authors ✍️ Author Memoirs

Autobiography of Mark Twain 90%

Sealed for a century: Twain's unfiltered life, with the portrait his daughter wrote tucked inside.

by Mark Twain 2010

3.80

9k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Lives 🇺🇸 American Authors ✍️ Author Memoirs

An Autobiography

by Agatha Christie • 1977

She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🏡 English Childhood 🔍 Golden Age Detective Fiction

An Autobiography 90%

She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.

by Agatha Christie 1977

4.13

13k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🏡 English Childhood 🔍 Golden Age Detective Fiction

Papa Hemingway

by A.E. Hotchner • 1955

From Paris to Cuba, a trusted friend documents the fourteen-year unmaking of a literary giant.

4.20

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🖋️ Literary Biography 🥂 Lost Generation ✍️ Writing Craft

Papa Hemingway 90%

From Paris to Cuba, a trusted friend documents the fourteen-year unmaking of a literary giant.

by A.E. Hotchner 1955

4.20

3k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Biography 🥂 Lost Generation ✍️ Writing Craft

The Ministry of Truth

by Dorian Lynskey • 2019

How a book born from war and lies became the world's most enduring defense of truth.

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📖 Literary Biography 🏚️ Dystopian Fiction ⚫ Totalitarianism

The Ministry of Truth 90%

How a book born from war and lies became the world's most enduring defense of truth.

by Dorian Lynskey 2019

4.12

1k+ ratings

📖 Literary Biography 🏚️ Dystopian Fiction ⚫ Totalitarianism

It's Been a Good Life

by Isaac Asimov • 2002

Five hundred books. The laws for fictional robots. It started behind a candy counter in Brooklyn.

4.17

481

🚀 Golden Age Sf 📝 Author Memoirs 🔬 Science Communication

It's Been a Good Life 90%

Five hundred books. The laws for fictional robots. It started behind a candy counter in Brooklyn.

by Isaac Asimov 2002

4.17

481 ratings

🚀 Golden Age Sf 📝 Author Memoirs 🔬 Science Communication

Charles Dickens in Love

by Robert Garnett • 2012

Dickens' heroines didn't come from his imagination but from a broken heart and a hidden affair.

3.93

📚 Literary Biography 🕰️ Victorian Literature 💔 Unrequited Love

Charles Dickens in Love 90%

Dickens' heroines didn't come from his imagination but from a broken heart and a hidden affair.

by Robert Garnett 2012

3.93

70 ratings

📚 Literary Biography 🕰️ Victorian Literature 💔 Unrequited Love

Working

by Robert A. Caro • 2019

How one biographer's archival obsession made Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson give up their secrets.

4.45

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🔍 Biographical Research 📰 Narrative Journalism 📜 Archival Research

Working 90%

How one biographer's archival obsession made Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson give up their secrets.

by Robert A. Caro 2019

4.45

8k+ ratings

🔍 Biographical Research 📰 Narrative Journalism 📜 Archival Research

Home

by Julie Andrews Edwards • 2008

Her stepfather taught her to sing. Her mother couldn't protect her. The stage became home.

3.97

22k+

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Theater Memoir 👧 Child Performer

Home 90%

Her stepfather taught her to sing. Her mother couldn't protect her. The stage became home.

by Julie Andrews Edwards 2008

3.97

22k+ ratings

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Theater Memoir 👧 Child Performer

The Facts

by Philip Roth • 1988

A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.

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1k+

🖋️ Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers On Writing ✡️ Jewish Identity

The Facts 90%

A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.

by Philip Roth 1988

3.70

1k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers On Writing ✡️ Jewish Identity

My Inventions

by Nikola Tesla • 1935

Tesla's mind was his lab, his curse, and the only place his machines ever ran perfectly.

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⚡ Electrical Engineering 🕰️ Early Electrical Age 📝 Inventor Memoirs

My Inventions 90%

Tesla's mind was his lab, his curse, and the only place his machines ever ran perfectly.

by Nikola Tesla 1935

3.91

13k+ ratings

⚡ Electrical Engineering 🕰️ Early Electrical Age 📝 Inventor Memoirs

Libro dell'acqua

by Eduard Limonov • 2003

At 48, a Russian exile finds his war and grins, documenting his self-made legend.

3.56

259

📖 Autofiction 🖤 Transgressive Literature 🇷🇺 Russian Memoir

Libro dell'acqua 90%

At 48, a Russian exile finds his war and grins, documenting his self-made legend.

by Eduard Limonov 2003

3.56

259 ratings

📖 Autofiction 🖤 Transgressive Literature 🇷🇺 Russian Memoir

Tesla

by Margaret Cheney • 1981

How the inventor of the twentieth century wound up alone with a white pigeon.

3.71

7k+

💡 Inventor Biographies ⚡ History Of Electricity 🔬 Scientific Biography

Tesla 89%

How the inventor of the twentieth century wound up alone with a white pigeon.

by Margaret Cheney 1981

3.71

7k+ ratings

💡 Inventor Biographies ⚡ History Of Electricity 🔬 Scientific Biography

Parisian Lives

by Deirdre Bair • 2019

Beckett gave her nothing. Beauvoir gave her rules. One woman wrote both biographies anyway.

4.02

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🖋️ Literary Biography ✍️ Writing Craft ⚖️ Biography Ethics

Parisian Lives 89%

Beckett gave her nothing. Beauvoir gave her rules. One woman wrote both biographies anyway.

by Deirdre Bair 2019

4.02

775 ratings

🖋️ Literary Biography ✍️ Writing Craft ⚖️ Biography Ethics

The Truth About Trump

by Michael D'Antonio • 2015

A Queens developer's decades-long project of self-invention, and how it conquered America.

3.54

795

🏛️ Political Biographies 💼 Business Moguls 👨‍👦 Family Dynasties

The Truth About Trump 89%

A Queens developer's decades-long project of self-invention, and how it conquered America.

by Michael D'Antonio 2015

3.54

795 ratings

🏛️ Political Biographies 💼 Business Moguls 👨‍👦 Family Dynasties

Palm Sunday

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 1981

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

3.78

7k+

🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Essay Collections ✍️ Writers On Writing

Palm Sunday 89%

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981

3.78

7k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Essay Collections ✍️ Writers On Writing

Alex Haley

by Robert J. Norrell • 2015

Family porch tales became the Roots miniseries seen by 85% of Americans. Then came the lawsuits.

3.48

🔖 Literary Biography 📜 African American History 🗣️ Oral Tradition

Alex Haley 89%

Family porch tales became the Roots miniseries seen by 85% of Americans. Then came the lawsuits.

by Robert J. Norrell 2015

3.48

89 ratings

🔖 Literary Biography 📜 African American History 🗣️ Oral Tradition

J.K. Rowling

by Marc Shapiro • 2000

A single mother, a café table, a sleeping baby: where the world's biggest book series began.

3.90

5k+

🖋️ Author Biographies 👧 Young Reader Biographies 💰 Rags To Riches

J.K. Rowling 89%

A single mother, a café table, a sleeping baby: where the world's biggest book series began.

by Marc Shapiro 2000

3.90

5k+ ratings

🖋️ Author Biographies 👧 Young Reader Biographies 💰 Rags To Riches

Education of a Felon

by Edward Bunker • 1999

A career criminal's brutal education behind bars, and how literature gave him a way out.

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2k+

⛓️ Prison Memoir 💰 Career Criminal 🔪 Prison Survival

Education of a Felon 89%

A career criminal's brutal education behind bars, and how literature gave him a way out.

by Edward Bunker 1999

4.14

2k+ ratings

⛓️ Prison Memoir 💰 Career Criminal 🔪 Prison Survival

A Light So Lovely

by Sarah Arthur • 2018

Science and art both belonged inside faith for L'Engle. Her children say she rewrote their lives.

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🖋️ Literary Biography 🎨 Faith And Art ⚡ Paradox And Faith

A Light So Lovely 89%

Science and art both belonged inside faith for L'Engle. Her children say she rewrote their lives.

by Sarah Arthur 2018

4.09

930 ratings

🖋️ Literary Biography 🎨 Faith And Art ⚡ Paradox And Faith

Wings of Fire

by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam • 1999

A boatman's son made India a missile power. The leadership lessons that built it from nothing.

4.29

55k+

🧪 Scientific Memoir 🇮🇳 Indian Science 🚀 Aerospace

Wings of Fire 89%

A boatman's son made India a missile power. The leadership lessons that built it from nothing.

by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 1999

4.29

55k+ ratings

🧪 Scientific Memoir 🇮🇳 Indian Science 🚀 Aerospace

How Not to Get Rich

by Alan Pell Crawford • 2014

Before he was America's most beloved author, Mark Twain was its most disastrous investor.

3.63

123

🏦 Financial Biography 🎩 Gilded Age ✍️ Literary Biography

How Not to Get Rich 89%

Before he was America's most beloved author, Mark Twain was its most disastrous investor.

by Alan Pell Crawford 2014

3.63

123 ratings

🏦 Financial Biography 🎩 Gilded Age ✍️ Literary Biography

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story

by William Elliott azelgrove • 2018

Wilbur Wright solved flight alone. Orville Wright spent decades burying that fact.

3.66

130

🛩️ Aviation History 🔍 Revisionist Biography 🔧 Inventor Biography

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story 89%

Wilbur Wright solved flight alone. Orville Wright spent decades burying that fact.

by William Elliott azelgrove 2018

3.66

130 ratings

🛩️ Aviation History 🔍 Revisionist Biography 🔧 Inventor Biography

Wizard

by Marc J. Seifer • 1996

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

3.73

7k+

📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents

Wizard 89%

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

by Marc J. Seifer 1996

3.73

7k+ ratings

📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents

How to Think Like Einstein

by Daniel Smith • 2014

The habits that let a slow-developing patent clerk rewrite physics, and why they still work.

3.57

282

🧪 Scientific Creativity 📖 Intellectual Biography 🚫 Nonconformity

How to Think Like Einstein 89%

The habits that let a slow-developing patent clerk rewrite physics, and why they still work.

by Daniel Smith 2014

3.57

282 ratings

🧪 Scientific Creativity 📖 Intellectual Biography 🚫 Nonconformity

Bowie's Bookshelf

by John O'Connell • 2019

Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and 98 other books: the shelf that built David Bowie.

3.73

2k+

🎸 Rock Music 📖 Reading Lives 🛣️ The Beat Generation

Bowie's Bookshelf 89%

Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and 98 other books: the shelf that built David Bowie.

by John O'Connell 2019

3.73

2k+ ratings

🎸 Rock Music 📖 Reading Lives 🛣️ The Beat Generation

Walt Whitman

by Justin Kaplan • 1980

A failed journalist shattered poetry's rules, then spent the Civil War comforting dying soldiers.

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326

📚 Literary Biography 📜 American Poetry 🎩 19th Century America

Walt Whitman 89%

A failed journalist shattered poetry's rules, then spent the Civil War comforting dying soldiers.

by Justin Kaplan 1980

3.94

326 ratings

📚 Literary Biography 📜 American Poetry 🎩 19th Century America

Mad at the World

by William Souder • 2020

He wrote the great novel of collective suffering, then fled the collective embrace of fame.

4.07

1k+

🖋️ Literary Biography 🇺🇸 American Writers 🏭 Social Realism

Mad at the World 89%

He wrote the great novel of collective suffering, then fled the collective embrace of fame.

by William Souder 2020

4.07

1k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Biography 🇺🇸 American Writers 🏭 Social Realism

The Gospel According to Coco Chanel

by Karen Karbo • 2009

From orphan to icon: Chanel's lessons on style, money, love, and never needing permission.

3.53

3k+

🧵 Fashion Biography 👑 Iconic Women 🇫🇷 French Style

The Gospel According to Coco Chanel Summary

The Gospel According to Coco Chanel 89%

From orphan to icon: Chanel's lessons on style, money, love, and never needing permission.

by Karen Karbo 2009

3.53

3k+ ratings

🧵 Fashion Biography 👑 Iconic Women 🇫🇷 French Style

Einstein in Time and Space

by Samuel Graydon • 2023

A life in 99 short chapters: Einstein as a contradictory man, not a marble saint.

4.17

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🔬 Scientific Biography ⏳ History Of Science 🧩 Mosaic Biography

Einstein in Time and Space 89%

A life in 99 short chapters: Einstein as a contradictory man, not a marble saint.

by Samuel Graydon 2023

4.17

652 ratings

🔬 Scientific Biography ⏳ History Of Science 🧩 Mosaic Biography

England's Mistress

by Kate Williams • 2006

A blacksmith's daughter invented a new kind of performance, won Nelson's heart, and lost everything.

3.91

1k+

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Georgian England 👩‍🎨 Women'S Biography 🎨 Artist'S Muse

England's Mistress 89%

A blacksmith's daughter invented a new kind of performance, won Nelson's heart, and lost everything.

by Kate Williams 2006

3.91

1k+ ratings

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Georgian England 👩‍🎨 Women'S Biography 🎨 Artist'S Muse

Darwin and Evolution

by Paul Strathern • 1998

How a seasick naturalist and a stranger's letter launched the most disruptive idea in science.

3.58

125

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔬 History Of Science 🌿 Natural Selection

Darwin and Evolution 89%

How a seasick naturalist and a stranger's letter launched the most disruptive idea in science.

by Paul Strathern 1998

3.58

125 ratings

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔬 History Of Science 🌿 Natural Selection

The Little Locksmith

by Katharine Butler Hathaway • 1943

A bedridden girl, a visibly different woman: she bought a Maine house and rebuilt herself.

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1k+

🩻 Disability Memoir ✍️ Writing Life 🦴 Embodied Difference

The Little Locksmith 89%

A bedridden girl, a visibly different woman: she bought a Maine house and rebuilt herself.

by Katharine Butler Hathaway 1943

3.67

1k+ ratings

🩻 Disability Memoir ✍️ Writing Life 🦴 Embodied Difference

Re-Sisters

by Cosey Fanni Tutti • 2022

An artist finds her countercultural lineage in a medieval mystic and an electronic music pioneer.

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🎛️ Electronic Music Pioneers ✊ Feminist Biography 🙏 Medieval Mysticism

Re-Sisters 89%

An artist finds her countercultural lineage in a medieval mystic and an electronic music pioneer.

by Cosey Fanni Tutti 2022

3.69

143 ratings

🎛️ Electronic Music Pioneers ✊ Feminist Biography 🙏 Medieval Mysticism

Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition

by Gregg Lewis • 2009

A fifth-grade failure becomes a world-famous neurosurgeon. Two household rules, one library card.

4.38

3k+

🩺 Medical Biography 📚 Reading And Literacy 🙏 Faith And Medicine

Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition Summary

Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition 89%

A fifth-grade failure becomes a world-famous neurosurgeon. Two household rules, one library card.

by Gregg Lewis 2009

4.38

3k+ ratings

🩺 Medical Biography 📚 Reading And Literacy 🙏 Faith And Medicine

Dream It! Do It! (The People, The Places, The Projects)

by Marty Sklar • 2013

Marty Sklar wrote Walt's final words. Then he spent 50 years building the impossible at Disney.

3.94

2k+

🎢 Theme Park Design 🧠 Creative Leadership 🏛️ Business History

Dream It! Do It! (The People, The Places, The Projects) Summary

Dream It! Do It! (The People, The Places, The Projects) 89%

Marty Sklar wrote Walt's final words. Then he spent 50 years building the impossible at Disney.

by Marty Sklar 2013

3.94

2k+ ratings

🎢 Theme Park Design 🧠 Creative Leadership 🏛️ Business History

Walt Disney

by Neal Gabler • 2006

The Disney empire: one haunted man's attempt to build a reality he could finally control.

4.07

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🎞️ Animation History 🎬 Hollywood Moguls 🎯 Creative Perfectionism

Walt Disney 89%

The Disney empire: one haunted man's attempt to build a reality he could finally control.

by Neal Gabler 2006

4.07

12k+ ratings

🎞️ Animation History 🎬 Hollywood Moguls 🎯 Creative Perfectionism

Low Road

by Eddie B. Allen Jr. • 2004

Two guns, no prints, two children locked in the basement. He had written this scene before.

3.85

134

🖋️ Literary Biography 💉 Heroin Addiction 🔒 Prison Writing

Low Road 89%

Two guns, no prints, two children locked in the basement. He had written this scene before.

by Eddie B. Allen Jr. 2004

3.85

134 ratings

🖋️ Literary Biography 💉 Heroin Addiction 🔒 Prison Writing

Becoming Leonardo

by Mike Lankford • 2017

Illegitimate, arrested, haunted by brutality: the wounds behind Leonardo da Vinci's genius.

4.00

320

🏛️ Italian Renaissance 🧠 Psychobiography ✍️ Creative Process

Becoming Leonardo 89%

Illegitimate, arrested, haunted by brutality: the wounds behind Leonardo da Vinci's genius.

by Mike Lankford 2017

4.00

320 ratings

🏛️ Italian Renaissance 🧠 Psychobiography ✍️ Creative Process

Ada's Algorithm

by James Essinger • 2013

In 1843, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program and imagined machines that compose music.

3.27

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🖥️ Early Computing 🔬 Women In Science 📚 Scientific Biography

Ada's Algorithm 89%

In 1843, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program and imagined machines that compose music.

by James Essinger 2013

3.27

2k+ ratings

🖥️ Early Computing 🔬 Women In Science 📚 Scientific Biography

It's Never Too Late to Begin Again

by Julia Cameron • 2016

A London workhouse boy invented the world's most famous character. Then the world demanded he speak.

4.12

1k+

🎞️ Silent Cinema 🎭 Comedy Theory 🎨 Creative Autonomy

It's Never Too Late to Begin Again Summary

It's Never Too Late to Begin Again 89%

A London workhouse boy invented the world's most famous character. Then the world demanded he speak.

by Julia Cameron 2016

4.12

1k+ ratings

🎞️ Silent Cinema 🎭 Comedy Theory 🎨 Creative Autonomy

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