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Authors with two or more political biographies in our collection have expanded entries.
Paradis, Michel. Eisenhower, Dwight. 2024.
Payne, Les & Tamara. Malcolm X. 2020.
Ian Penman is a British writer, music journalist and critic. He began writing for the New Musical Express, later contributing to Uncut, Sight & Sound, The Wire, The Face, and The Guardian. He has published two collections of his essays and articles, plus full-length studies of Werner Fassbinder, and Erik Satie.
Penman, Ian. Fassbinder, Rainer. 2023.
Penman, Ian. Erik Satie. 2025.
Penn, Thomas. Henry VII. 2012.
Roland Philipps went into publishing on graduating from Cambridge University and became Publisher of John Murray. He has edited some leading novelists, politicians, historians, travellers and biographers. A Spy Named Orphan, his first book, arose from lifelong connections to Donald Maclean and his story.
Philipps, Roland. Maclean, Donald. 2018.
Philipps, Roland. Casement, Roger. 2024.
Phillipps, Karen. Carman, George. 2024.
Phillips, Jonathan. Sultan Saladin. 2019.
Alexandra Popoff is a former Moscow journalist and Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow. She is an expert on Russian literature and cultural history and the author of five literary biographies. Popoff has written articles and reviews for The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Tablet Magazine.
Popoff, Alexandra. Grossman, Vasily. 2019.
Popoff, Alexandra. Rand, Ayn. 2025.
Powers, Ann. Mitchell, Joni. 2024.
Preston, John. Maxwell, Robert. 2020.
Sue Prideaux is Anglo-Norwegian. Her first biography Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream (Yale University Press) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and she has spoken on Munch for the World Monuments Fund, at literary festivals, at the Royal Academy in London and at MOMA in New York for CBS television, and for Korean TV.
Prideaux, Sue. Nietzsche, Freidrich. 2018.
Prideaux, Sue. Gaugin. 2024.
Sonia Purnell is a British writer and journalist who has worked at The Economist, The Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times. Her books include Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill, which was chosen as book of the year by The Telegraph and The Independent, and was a finalist for the Plutarch Award.
Purnell, Sonia. Hall, Virginia. 2020.
Purnell, Sonia. Harriman, Pamela. 2024.