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Reading: Biography Booklist
Directions: Use the following booklist for our biography unit. The list is
categorized by topic. I encourage you to select books from different topics. See the
Biography Booklist  Directions handout for further information on this
assignment. (Total: 206 titles)
Do-gooders: Titles: 31
Jane Addams : champion of democracy
[ Book ] B ADDAMS Fradin, Judith Bloom.
Published 2006
Peace and bread : the story of Jane Addams
[ Book ] B ADDAMS McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino.
Published 1993
Waging peace : the story of Jane Addams
[ Book ] B ADDAMS Caravantes, Peggy, 1935Published 2004
The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights
[ Book ] B AND Freedman, Russell.
Published 2004
Susan B. Anthony
[ Book ] B ANT Weisberg, Barbara.
Published 1988
Failure is impossible : the story of Susan B. Anthony
[ Book ] B ANTHONY Bohannon, Lisa Frederiksen.
Published 2002
Rachel Carson : a twentieth-century life
[ Book ] B CARSON Levine, Ellen.
Published 2007
Votes for women! : the story of Carrie Chapman Catt
[ Book ] B CATT Somervill, Barbara A.
Published 2003
Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
[ Book ] B COLVIN Hoose, Phillip M., 1947Published 2009
A stranger in my own house : the story of W.E.B. Du Bois
[ Book ] B DU BOIS Hinman, Bonnie.
Published 2005
W.E.B. Du Bois : a twentieth-century life
[ Book ] B DUBOIS Bolden, Tonya.
Published 2008
Marian Wright Edelman : the making of a crusader
[ Book ] B EDELMAN Siegel, Beatrice.
Published 1995
Mahatma Gandhi
[ Book ] B GAN Adams, Simon.
Published 2003
Gandhi, great soul
[ Book ] B GANDHI Severance, John B.
Published 1997
Jane Goodall : legendary primatologist
[ Book ] B Goo Haugen, Brenda.
Published 2006
Jane Goodall : a twentieth-century life
[ Book ] B GOODALL Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta.
Published 2008
Temple Grandin : how the girl who loved cows embraced autism and changed the
world
[ Book ] B GRANDIN Montgomery, Sy.
Published 2012
Helen Keller : rebellious spirit
[ Book ] B KELLER Lawlor, Laurie.
Published 2001
The world at her fingertips : the story of Helen Keller
[ Book ] B KELLER Dash, Joan.
Published 2001
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
[ Book ] B KIN Ganeri, Anita, 1961Published 2003
Martin Luther King, Jr. : civil rights leader
[ Book ] B KIN Jakoubek, Robert E.
Published 2005
Martin Luther King, Jr.
[ Book ] B KING Wukovits, John F., 1944Published 1999
First Girl Scout : the life of Juliette Gordon Low
[ Book ] B LOW Wadsworth, Ginger.
Published 2012
Malcolm X : by any means necessary : a biography
[ Book ] B MALCOLM X Myers, Walter Dean, 1937Published 1993
Malcolm X for beginners
[ Book ] B MALCOLM X Doctor, Bernard.
Published 1992
Mandela
[ Book ] B MANDELA Hain, Peter
Published 2010
Nelson Mandela : hero for democracy
[ Book ] B MANDELA Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951Published 1994
Margaret Mead
[ Book ] B MEA Ziesk, Edra.
Published 1990
Sojourner Truth : abolitionist and women's rights activist
[ Book ] B TRUTH Bernard, Catherine.
Published 2001
Sojourner Truth : ain't I a woman?
[ Book ] B TRUTH McKissack, Pat, 1944Published 1992
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Harriet Tubman
[ Book ] B TUBMAN Bentley, Judith.
Published 1990
Fashion and Entertainment: Titles: 26
Elizabeth Arden : beauty empire builder
[ Book ] B ARDEN Shuker, Nancy.
Published 2001
Mikhail Baryshnikov : dance genius
[ Book ] B BAR Glassman, Bruce.
Published 2001
The great and only Barnum : the tremendous, stupendous life of showman P.T. Barnum
[ Book ] B BARNUM Fleming, Candace.
Published 2009
Prince of Humbug : a life of P.T. Barnum
[ Book ] B BARNUM Andronik, Catherine M.
Published 1994
Mikhail Baryshnikov
[ Book ] B BARYSHNIKOV Glassman, Bruce.
Published 1990
Coco Chanel
[ Book ] B CHANEL Gaines, Ann.
Published 2004
Coco Chanel
[ Book ] B CHANEL Abrams, Dennis, 1960Published 2011
Sir Charlie Chaplin : the funniest man in the world
[ Book ] B CHAPLIN Fleischman, Sid, 1920-2010.
Published 2010
Jimmy Choo.
[ Book ] B CHOO Sapet, Kerrily.
Published 2010
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Agnes De Mille : dancing off the earth
[ Book ] B DE MILLE Gherman, Beverly.
Published 1990
The story of Walt Disney, maker of magical worlds
[ Book ] B DISNEY Selden, Bernice.
Published 1989
Walt Disney : a biography
[ Book ] B DISNEY Krasniewicz, Louise, 1952Published 2010
Walt Disney : creator of Mickey Mouse
[ Book ] B DISNEY Cole, Michael D.
Published 1996
Isadora Duncan
[ Book ] B DUNCAN Kozodoy, Ruth.
Published 1988
Michael J. Fox
[ Book ] B FOX Kozar, Richard.
Published 2000
Martha Graham
[ Book ] B GRAHAM Pratt, Paula Bryant, 1959Published 1995
Martha Graham, a dancer's life
[ Book ] B GRAHAM Freedman, Russell.
Published 1998
Escape! : the story of the great Houdini
[ Book ] B HOUDINI Fleischman, Sid, 1920Published 2006
Spellbinder : the life of Harry Houdini
[ Book ] B HOUDINI Lalicki, Tom.
Published 2000
Calvin Klein
[ Book ] B KLEIN Cody, Matthew W., 1974Published 2011
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Stella McCartney
[ Book ] B MCCARTNEY Aldridge, Rebecca.
Published 2011
Isaac Mizrahi
[ Book ] B MIZRAHI Mills, Cliff, 1947Published 2011
Annie Oakley
[ Book ] B Oak Wills, Chuck.
Published 2007
Tom Thumb : the remarkable true story of a man in miniature
[ Book ] B THUMB Sullivan, George.
Published 2011
Vera Wang
[ Book ] B WAN Todd, Anne M.
Published 2007
Oprah Winfrey : a twentieth-century life
[ Book ] B WINFREY Cooper, Ilene.
Published 2007
Musicians and Writers Titles: 24
Louisa May Alcott
[ Book ] B Alc Ruth, Amy.
Published 1998
Say it with music : the story of Irving Berlin
[ Book ] B BERLIN Furstinger, Nancy.
Published 2003
Ray Bradbury : master of science fiction and fantasy
[ Book ] B BRA Mass, Wendy, 1967Published 2004
Gwendolyn Brooks : poet from Chicago
[ Book ] B BROOKS Rhynes, Martha E., 1929Published 2003
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Johnny Cash : a twentieth-century life
[ Book ] B CASH Neimark, Anne E.
Published 2008
Ray Charles : voice of soul
[ Book ] B CHARLES Ritz, David.
Published 1994
The trouble begins at 8 : a life of Mark Twain in the wild, wild West
[ Book ] B CLEMENS Fleischman, Sid, 1920-2010.
Published 2008
E.E. Cummings
[ Book ] B CUMMINGS Reef, Catherine.
Published 2006
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London.
[ Book ] B DICKENS Warren, Andrea.
Published 2011
Emily Dickinson : a biography
[ Book ] B DICKINSO N Meltzer, Milton, 1915Published 2006
Emily Dickinson
[ Book ] B DICKINSON Olsen, Victoria.
Published 1990
Duke Ellington : a life of music
[ Book ] B ELLINGTON Stwertka, Eve.
Published 1994
Ella Fitzgerald
[ Book ] B FITZGERA LD Stone, Tanya Lee.
Published 2008
Deep woods : the story of Robert Frost
[ Book ] B FROST Caravantes, Peggy, 1935Published 2006
I, too, sing America : the story of Langston Hughes
[ Book ] B HUGHES Rhynes, Martha E., 1929Published 2002
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Harper Lee : a twentieth-century life
[ Book ] B LEE Madden, Kerry.
Published 2009
John Lennon : the Beatles and beyond
[ Book ] B LENNON Wright, David K.
Published 1996
Revolution : the story of John Lennon
[ Book ] B LENNON Duggleby, John, 1952Published 2007
The man who created Narnia : the story of C.S. Lewis
[ Book ] B LEWIS Coren, Michael.
Published 1996
Paul McCartney
[ Book ] B MCCARTNEY Boyes, Kate.
Published 2004
Edgar Allan Poe : a biography
[ Book ] B POE Meltzer, Milton, 1915Published 2003
Elvis Presley : "I want to entertain people"
[ Book ] B PRE Micklos, John.
Published 2011
Elvis Presley : a twentieth-century life
[ Book ] B PRESLEY Hampton, Wilborn.
Published 2008
J.K. Rowling
[ Book ] B Row Sexton, Colleen A., 1967Published 2006
Politicians, Entrepreneurs and Historical Figures: Titles: 48
Madeleine Albright
[ Book ] B ALB Hasday, Judy L., 1957Published 2001
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Madeleine Albright
[ Book ] B ALBRIGHT Acker, Kerry.
Published 2004
The notorious Benedict Arnold : a true story of adventure, heroism, & bravery
[ Book ] B ARNOLD Sheinkin, Steve.
Published 2010
Nellie Bly
[ Book ] B BLY Ehrlich, Elizabeth.
Published 1989
Margaret Bourke-White : a photographer's life
[ Book ] B Bou Keller, Emily.
Published 1996
Margaret Bourke-White : racing with a dream
[ Book ] B Bou Welch, Catherine A.
Published 1998
Andrew Carnegie : steel king and friend to libraries
[ Book ] B CARNEGIE Kent, Zachary.
Published 1999
The many lives of Andrew Carnegie
[ Book ] B CARNEGIE Meltzer, Milton, 1915Published 1997
Fidel Castro
[ Book ] B CAS Platt, Richard.
Published 2003
Fidel Castro : leader of communist Cuba
[ Book ] B Cas Rees, Fran.
Published 2006
Winston Churchill : British soldier, writer, statesman
[ Book ] B Chu Haugen, Brenda.
Published 2006
Hillary Rodham Clinton
[ Book ] B CLINTON Gullo, Jim, 1957Published 2004
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Hillary Rodham Clinton : first lady and senator
[ Book ] B CLINTON Burgan, Michael.
Published 2008
Diana, Princess of Wales
[ Book ] B DIANA Brennan, Kristine, 1969Published 1999
Unsolved : what really happened to Amelia Earhart?
[ Book ] B EAR Micklos, John.
Published 2006
Amelia Earhart
[ Book ] B EARHART Shore, Nancy.
Published 1987
Amelia Lost : The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
[ Book ] B EARHART Fleming, Candace.
Published 2011
Indira Gandhi : political leader in India
[ Book ] B Gan Somervill, Barbara A.
Published 2007
John Paul Getty : billionaire oilman
[ Book ] B GETTY Glassman, Bruce.
Published 2001
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
[ Book ] B Gin Bayer, Linda N.
Published 2000
William Randolph Hearst : modern media tycoon
[ Book ] B HEARST Frazier, Nancy.
Published 2001
Adolf Hitler
[ Book ] B HIT Gogerly, Liz.
Published 2003
Adolf Hitler : dictator of Nazi Germany
[ Book ] B Hit Haugen, Brenda.
Published 2006
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Jesse James : "I will never surrender"
[ Book ] B JAM Burlingame, Jeff.
Published 2010
Steve Jobs
[ Book ] B Job Corrigan, Jim.
Published 2009
John F. Kennedy
[ Book ] B Ken Anderson, Catherine Corley.
Published 2004
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
[ Book ] B KEN Landau, Elaine.
Published 2000
John F. Kennedy : president of the New Frontier
[ Book ] B KEN Cole, Michael D.
Published 1996
Jack : the early years of John F. Kennedy
[ Book ] B KENNEDY Cooper, Ilene.
Published 2003
Robert F. Kennedy : a twentieth-century life
[ Book ] B KENNEDY Aronson, Marc.
Published 2007
Barack Obama
[ Book ] B OBA Wagner, Heather Lehr.
Published 2008
Barack Obama : "we are one people"
[ Book ] B OBAMA Schuman, Michael.
Published 2009
Michelle Obama : First Lady
[ Book ] B OBAMA McCaffrey, Paul, 1977Published 2011
Sandra Day O'Connor
[ Book ] B OCONNOR Huber, Peter W. (Peter William), 1952Published 1990
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Rosa Parks : civil rights leader
[ Book ] B PAR Hull, Mary.
Published 2005
Colin Powell : a man of quality
[ Book ] B POWELL Hughes, Libby.
Published 1996
Colin Powell : "Have a vision. Be demanding"
[ Book ] B POWELL Shichtman, Sandra H.
Published 2005
Condoleezza Rice : America's leading stateswoman
[ Book ] B RIC Ditchfield, Christin.
Published 2007
John D. Rockefeller : oil baron and philanthropist
[ Book ] B ROCKEFELLER Laughlin, Rosemary.
Published 2004
Franklin D. Roosevelt
[ Book ] B ROO Gilbert, Adrian.
Published 2003
Theodore Roosevelt
[ Book ] B Roo McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino.
Published 2005
Eleanor Roosevelt : a courageous spirit
[ Book ] B ROOSEVEL T Jones, Victoria Garrett.
Published 2007
Franklin Delano Roosevelt : a national hero
[ Book ] B ROOSEVEL T Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta.
Published 2007
Our Eleanor : a scrapbook look at Eleanor Roosevelt's remarkable life
[ Book ] B ROOSEVEL T Fleming, Candace.
Published 2005
Eleanor Roosevelt
[ Book ] B ROOSEVELT McAuley, Karen.
Published 1987
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Theodore Roosevelt takes charge
[ Book ] B ROOSEVELT Whitelaw, Nancy.
Published 1992
Betsy Ross : a flag for a new nation
[ Book ] B ROS Cox, Vicki.
Published 2006
Mr. Sam : how Sam Walton built Wal-Mart and became America's richest man
[ Book ] B WALTON Blumenthal, Karen.
Published 2011
Scientists and Inventors: Titles: 40
Ibn al-Haytham : first scientist
[ Book ] B ALHAZEN Steffens, Bradley, 1955Published 2007
Neil Armstrong
[ Book ] B ARMSTRONG Kling, Andrew A., 1961Published 2004
Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone : the invention that changed communication
[ Book ] B BEL Crompton, Samuel Willard.
Published 2009
Alexander Graham Bell : making connections
[ Book ] B BELL Pasachoff, Naomi E.
Published 1998
Louis Braille : inventor
[ Book ] B BRA Bryant, Jennifer.
Published 1994
Louis Braille a touch of genius
[ Book ] B BRAILLE Mellor, C. Michael.
Published 2006
Nicholas Copernicus and the founding of modern astronomy
[ Book ] B COPERNICUS Goble, Todd, 1962Published 2004
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Jacques Cousteau
[ Book ] B COUSTEAU DuTemple, Lesley A.
Published 2000
Marie Curie : discoverer of radium
[ Book ] B CUR Poynter, Margaret.
Published 2008
Something out of nothing : Marie Curie and radium
[ Book ] B CURIE McClafferty, Carla Killough, 1958Published 2006
Charles and Emma : the Darwins' leap of faith
[ Book ] B DARWIN Heiligman, Deborah.
Published 2009
Charles Darwin and the evolution revolution
[ Book ] B DARWIN Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951Published 1996
Charles Darwin and the mystery of mysteries
[ Book ] B DARWIN Eldredge, Niles.
Published 2010
Charles Darwin : revolutionary biologist
[ Book ] B DARWIN Evans, J. Edward.
Published 1993
George Eastman
[ Book ] B EASTMAN Holmes, Burnham, 1942Published 1992
Thomas Edison : wizard of light and sound
[ Book ] B EDISON Graham, Amy.
Published 2008
Albert Einstein
[ Book ] B EIN Oxlade, Chris.
Published 2003
Albert Einstein
[ Book ] B EINSTEIN Krull, Kathleen.
Published 2009
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Henry Ford
[ Book ] B FOR Tilton, Rafael.
Published 2003
Sigmund Freud
[ Book ] B FREUD Krull, Kathleen.
Published 2006
Sigmund Freud : explorer of the unconscious
[ Book ] B FREUD Muckenhoupt, Margaret.
Published 1997
Bill Gates
[ Book ] B Gat Lesinski, Jeanne M.
Published 2006
Bill Gates : computer mogul and philanthropist
[ Book ] B GAT Schuman, Michael.
Published 2008
Bill Gates : billionaire computer genius
[ Book ] B GATES Dickinson, Joan D.
Published 1997
Frank Gehry
[ Book ] B Geh Lazo, Caroline Evensen.
Published 2006
Matt Groening : from spitballs to Springfield
[ Book ] B GROENING Lenburg, Jeff.
Published 2011
William Hanna & Joseph Barbera : the sultans of Saturday morning
[ Book ] B HANNA Lenburg, Jeff.
Published 2011
The longitude prize
[ Book ] B HARRISON Dash, Joan.
Published 2000
The Wright sister : Katharine Wright and her famous brothers
[ Book ] B HASKELL Maurer, Richard, 1950Published 2003
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Stephen Hawking : physicist and educator
[ Book ] B HAWKING Ryan, Bernard, 1923Published 2005
Edwin Hubble : discoverer of galaxies
[ Book ] B HUB Datnow, Claire L.
Published 1997
Edwin Hubble : discoverer of galaxies
[ Book ] B HUB Datnow, Claire L.
Published 2008
Leonardo da Vinci
[ Book ] B LEONARDO Krull, Kathleen.
Published 2005
Letters from Mir : an astronaut's letters to his son
[ Book ] B LINENGER Linenger, Jerry M.
Published 2003
Isaac Newton
[ Book ] B NEWTON Krull, Kathleen.
Published 2006
J. Robert Oppenheimer : the brain behind the bomb
[ Book ] B OPP Scherer, Glenn.
Published 2008
Louis Pasteur and the founding of microbiology
[ Book ] B PASTEUR Ackerman, Jane, 1948Published 2004
Steve Wozniak : inventor of the Apple computer
[ Book ] B WOZNIAK Kendall, Martha E., 1947Published 1994
Frank Lloyd Wright : a twentieth-century life
[ Book ] B WRIGHT Adkins, Jan.
Published 2007
The Wright brothers
[ Book ] B WRIGHT Martin, Michael J.
Published 2003
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Sports Personalities: Titles: 37
The greatest : Muhammad Ali
[ Book ] B Ali Myers, Walter Dean.
Published 2001
Muhammad Ali
[ Book ] B Ali Golus, Carrie, 1969Published 2006
Muhammad Ali
[ Book ] B ALI Owens, Tom, 1960Published 2011
Muhammad Ali : heavyweight champion
[ Book ] B ALI Rummel, Jack.
Published 2005
Muhammad Ali : "I am the greatest"
[ Book ] B ALI Micklos, John.
Published 2011
Muhammed Ali : the world's champion
[ Book ] B ALI Tessitore, John.
Published 1998
Arthur Ashe : of tennis & the human spirit
[ Book ] B ASH Martin, Marvin.
Published 1999
Arthur Ashe : tennis great & civil rights leader
[ Book ] B ASHE McDougall, Chrös.
Published 2011
Roberto Clemente : baseball's humanitarian hero
[ Book ] B Cle Márquez, Herón.
Published 2005
Pride of Puerto Rico : the life of Roberto Clemente
[ Book ] B CLEMENTE Walker, Paul Robert.
Published 1991
Roberto Clemente : baseball star and humanitarian
[ Book ] B CLEMENTE Freedman, Lew.
Published 2011
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Fire on ice : autobiography of a champion figure skater
[ Book ] B COHEN Cohen, Sasha, 1984Published 2006
Brett Favre
[ Book ] B FAVRE Koestler-Grack, Rachel A., 1973Published 2008
Lou Gehrig : Iron Horse of baseball
[ Book ] B GEHRIG Buckley, James, 1963Published 2010
Hammerin' Hank Greenberg : baseball pioneer
[ Book ] B GREENBER G Sommer, Shelley.
Published 2011
Derek Jeter : captain on and off the field
[ Book ] B JET Robinson, Tom.
Published 2006
Magic Johnson : athlete
[ Book ] B JOHNSON Aretha, David.
Published 2010
Magic Johnson : basketball star & entrepreneur
[ Book ] B JOHNSON Roselius, J Chris.
Published 2011
Billie Jean King : tennis star and social activist
[ Book ] B KING Gitlin, Marty.
Published 2011
Michelle Kwan, heart of a champion : an autobiography
[ Book ] B KWAN Kwan, Michelle, 1980Published 1997
Mario Lemieux : ice hockey star
[ Book ] B LEMIEUX Klein, Jeff Z.
Published 1995
I was a teenage professional wrestler
[ Book ] B LEWIN Lewin, Ted.
Published 1993
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Triumph on ice : an autobiography
[ Book ] B LIPINSKI Lipinski, Tara, 1982Published 1997
Jesse Owens : trailblazing sprinter
[ Book ] B OWENS McDougall, Chrös.
Published 2011
The legend of Jesse Owens
[ Book ] B OWENS Nuwer, Hank.
Published 1998
Walter Payton
[ Book ] B PAYTON Woog, Adam, 1953Published 2008
Pele
[ Book ] B Pel Buckley, James.
Published 2007
Pele : soccer superstar
[ Book ] B PELE Hillstrom, Laurie Collier.
Published 2008
Michael Phelps
[ Book ] B Phe Sapet, Kerrily, 1972Published 2009
Mariano Rivera
[ Book ] B RIVERA Levin, Judith (Judith N.), 1956Published 2008
Jackie Robinson
[ Book ] B ROBINSON DeAngelis, Gina.
Published 2001
Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball.
[ Book ] B ROBINSON Simon, Scott.
Published 2007
John D. Rockefeller : richest man ever
[ Book ] B ROCKEFEL LER Coffey, Ellen Greenman.
Published 2001
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Babe Ruth : a twentieth-century life
[ Book ] B RUTH Hampton, Wilborn.
Published 2009
Jim Thorpe : 20th-century jock
[ Book ] B THORPE Lipsyte, Robert.
Published 1993
Jim Thorpe : an athlete for the ages
[ Book ] B THORPE Labrecque, Ellen.
Published 2010
Babe Didrikson Zaharias : the making of a champion
[ Book ] B ZAHARIAS Freedman, Russell.
Published 1999
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