'series="{Critical lives"' in OBA Collectie

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...

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...