'series="Critical lives"' in OBA Collectie

Leven en werk van de Amerikaanse componist (1912-1992).

Introductie in het leven van de Franse schrijver (1910-1986).

Introductie in het leven van de Mexicaanse dichter (1914-1998).

Verhandeling over leven en werk van de Franse kunstenaar (1887-1968).

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) is most often remembered as one of Europe's most innovative independent film-makers, whose films called into question and re-ordered the nature of film-making itself. But he was also a painter, writer and poet, gardener, set des...

Few authors have led lives as interesting as that enjoyed by French novelist and travel writer Pierre Loti (1850-1923) - and still fewer have worked so hard to make their lives appear even more romantic than they already were. As a career officer in the...

As the first black author in America to make his living exclusively by writing, Langston Hughes inspired a generation of writers and activists. One of the pioneers of jazz poetry, Hughes led the Harlem Renaissance, while Martin Luther King invoked his s...