Biographies as Topic
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New Jersey biographical and genealogical notes from the volumes of the New Jersey archives
The Arvon book of life writing
Dictionary of Canadian biography
Memorials of the life of James Syme, professor of clinical surgery in the University of Edinburgh, etc
Great men and famous women
Jung and the Story of Our Time
John Dewey
Alfred Adler
Freud: living and dying
The Healing Heart
Havelock Ellis, a biography
Eunice Dyke, health care pioneer
Stedman's Medical Eponyms
Vulnerable Subjects
William Harvey, a history of the discovery of the circulation of the blood
Helen and teacher
Lives in Writing
Eminent Victorians
The Oral History Collection of Columbia University
The life of Pasteur
A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography
Madame Curie
Modern English biography
Cooley: the career of a great heart surgeon
Harry Stack Sullivan
A biographical dictionary
A dictionary of universal biography of all ages and of all peoples
Merriam-Webster's biographical dictionary
Eat, Pray, Love
Michelangelo
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