Contains over 14,000 brief entries covering persons both past and present

A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictio

Dictionaries of biography.

This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide ra

As an influential and well-connected composer, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) had encountered, befriended, and collaborated with hundreds of people over his signif