Russian prosecutors charged three Chechens it claimed were gunmen hired by warlord Khozh-Akhmed Nukhaev, the subject of one of Klebnikov's two biographies.

FORBES: Remembering Paul Klebnikov

To prepare for the series, Goyer says he read dozens of biographies, da Vinci's journal pages and many of his letters.

NPR: Leonardo Da Vinci Gets 'Batman' Treatment On Starz

Blackburn's new novel follows a clear trajectory in the author's intellectual development: from imagined biographies to what I suspect are highly autobiographical imaginings.

CNN: 'The Leper's Companions'

According to several historians, since Cobb's death in 1961, three pieces of writing by journalist Al Stump an article in True Magazine and two biographies have most shaped Cobb's image in American culture.

WSJ: Ty Cobb: A Juicy Look At the Georgia Peach

Bowker's Books In Print says nearly 1, 400 titles related to President Kennedy, including his assassination, conspiracy works, biographies and speeches, have been published in the U.S. over the past five decades.

WSJ: JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories Sell Lots of Books

Developers can also tap into the world's largest commercial source of Album Cover Art, artist biographies and other related content.

ENGADGET: Gracenote unleashes its vast musical know-how to developers

For a country obsessed with people's life stories, Indians don't write absorbing autobiographies or biographies.

BBC: Vinod Mehta memoir a rare and salacious Indian tell-all

Peter Ackroyd's obsession with the mythology of London has long been apparent from his novels and biographies.

ECONOMIST: Non-fiction

The bicentenary of Pushkin's birth in May 1999 will be marked by no fewer than three new English biographies and critical studies as well as innumerable Russian publications.

ECONOMIST: Russian writers