Category: Biography
The Venerable Bede The Venerable Bede (673-735 AD), Monk, biblical scholar, and the first English historian. Bede devoted his life to teaching, writing, and study at the monastery of …
Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett (1906-89), Irish novelist and dramatist. He lived in France from 1932 onwards and wrote most of his works in French, producing his own English translations. …
St Thomas Becket St Thomas Becket (1118-70), English churchman and martyr. A skilled administrator, he was chosen as chancellor by Henry II in 1154. In this post he invariably …
Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86), French novelist, writer, and existentialist thinker. In 1929 she began a lifelong association with Jean-Paul Sartre at the Sorbonne, where she later taught …
Sir Francis Beaufort Sir Francis Beaufort, (1774-1857). British admiral and hydrographer. In 1808 Beaufort drafted the scale of wind strengths that has become the standard table for measuring the …
Beatles Beatles, The British rock group, consisting of George Harrison (1943), John Lennon (1940-80), Paul Mc-Cartney (1942- ), and Ringo Starr (1940- ), real name Richard Starkey. The Beatles …
Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Beardsley, (1872-98), British illustrator. His, stylized black and white drawings, which were influenced by Japanese painting, are typical of the Art Nouveau style. His use of …
Charles Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire, (1821-67), French poet. He be-came addicted to hashish and opium in his youth and contracted the syphilis of which he eventually died. In 1842 he …
