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Oprah winfrey short biography

Billionaire media executive and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey is best known for hosting her internationally popular talk show from to From there, she launched her television network.

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George orwell life and works

George Orwell (—) Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was a British essayist, journalist, and novelist. Orwell is most famous for his dystopian works of fiction, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, but many of his essays and other books have remained popular as well. His body of work provides one of the twentieth century’s most trenchant and widely.

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Lance armstrong biography book

Lance Armstrong: A Biography provides a detailed treatment of Armstrong's life, from the lasting influences of his boyhood and the early years of his competitive training, to his battle with cancer, his divorce, and the birth of his fifth child during his second comeback to professional cycling. The book portrays him both as a champion athlete and a family man, and gives a candid assessment of.

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Joseph stalin biography book

In this monumental book, Ronald Grigor Suny sheds light on the least understood years of Stalin’s career, bringing to life the turbulent world in which he lived and the extraordinary historical events that shaped him.

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Gustav klimt biography book

Gustav Klimt has books on Goodreads with ratings. Gustav Klimt’s most popular book is Complete Works of Gustav Klimt.

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Philip roth autobiography

In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Philip Roth (–), one of America’s most celebrated writers.

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Peter pan author biography

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (May 9, – J), more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and playwright. He is best remembered for his play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, about Peter, Wendy and the Lost Boys of Never Never Land.