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--Moms Mabley (1897—1975)
African-American vaudeville performer and comedian.

--Douglas MacArthur (1880—1964)
American general.
_Reminiscences_ [1964]
Biographies and/or related books about:
John Gunther _The Riddle of MacArthur_ [1951]
William Manchester _American Caesar_ [1978]

--Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800—1859)
English politician and historian.
_Essay on Mitford's History of Greece_ [1824]
_Hallem_ [1828]
_History of England_ [1849—1861]
_Critical and Historical Essays_
Biographies and/or related books about:
_The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay_ [1981]

--George MacDonald (1824—1905)
Scottish author and poet.
_The Marquis of Lossie_ [1877]
_God's Words to His Children_ [1887]

--James Ramsay MacDonald (1866—1937)
British politician, three-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

--Sir John A. Macdonald (1815—1891)
Canadian politician and and Cabinet minister, two-time Prime Minister of Canada.

--Pat MacDonald (b. 1952)
American musician and songwriter.

--Ross MacDonald [Kenneth Millar] (1915—1983)
American crime-fiction writer.

--A. G. Macdonell (1895—1941)
Scottish writer, journalist and broadcaster.
_A Visit to America_ [1935]
_My Scotland_ [1937]

--Antonio Machado (1875—1939)
Spanish poet.

--Niccolς Machiavelli (1469—1527)
Florentine statesman and political philosopher.
_The Prince_ [written 1513, published 1532]
_The Discourses_ [1517]
_The Art of War_ [1521]
_History of Florence_ [1521—1524]

--Charles Mackay (1814—1889)
Scottish poet and newspaperman.
_Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds_ [1841]
_Life and Liberty in America_ [1859]

--Harvey B. Mackay
American public speaker.

--Catherine MacKinnon (b. 1946)
American feminist, lawyer, and teacher.

--Sir James Mackintosh (1765—1832)
Scottish historian and statesman.

--Shirley Maclaine [Shirley MacLean Beaty] (b. 1934)
American actress.
_Going Within_ [1989]

--Norman Maclean (1902—1990)
American novelist and academic.
_A River Runs Through It_ [1976]

--Archibald MacLeish (1892—1982)
American poet and public official.
_The American Cause_ [1940]

--Iain Macleod (1913—1970)
British Conservative Party politician and government minister.

--Marie Edmι Patrice Maurice Macmahon (1808—1893)
French general and statesman; president [1873—1879]

--Harold MacMillan (1894—1986)
British Conservative statesman, Prime Minister [1957—1963].

--Edward Madden (1878—1952)
American songwriter.

--James Madison (1751—1836)
Fourth president of the United States [1809—1817].
Biographies and/or related books about:
William T. Hutchinson {ed.} _The Papers of James Madison_ [1977]
James Morton Smith {ed.} _The Republic of Letters, The Correspondence
between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 1776—1826_ [1995]

--Maurice Maeterlinck (1862—1949)
Belgium poet and playwright.
_Pellιas et Mιlisande_ [1892]

--John Gillespie Magee (1922—1941)
Anglo-American aviator and poet.

--William Connor Magee (1821—1891)
Irish clergyman of the Anglican church.

--Herb Magidson (1906—1986)
American songwriter.

--Magna Carta [1215]

--Richard Magoffin (1937—2006)
Australian teacher and historian.

--Elias L. Magoon (1810—1886)
American clergyman.

--_The Mahabharata_ [c. 800 B. C.]
Sanskrit epic poem.

--Bill Maher (b. 1956)
American comedian and author.
_When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden_ [2002]

--Naguib Mahfouz (1911—2006)
Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

--Margaret Mahy (b. 1936)
New Zealand writer for children.

--Norman Mailer (1923—2007)
American author, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

--Moses Maimonides (1135—1204)
Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician.
_Laws of Repentance_ [1170—1180]

--Franηoise d'Aubignι, marquise de Maintenon (1635—1719)
Second wife and untitled queen of King Louis XIV of France.

--Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre (1753—1821)
French diplomat and writer.

--John Major (b. 1943)
The youngest British prime minister of the 20th century [1990-1997].

--Malcolm X (1925—1965)
American civil rights campaigner.
_Malcolm X Speaks_ [1965]
Biographies and/or related books about:
David Gallen _Malcolm X: As They Knew Him_ [1992]

--Janet Malcolm (b. 1934)
American writer and journalist.

--Taylor Mali (b. 1965)
American teacher and poet.

--Robert Mallet (see Robert Mallet-Stevens) (1886—1945)

--George Leigh Mallory (1886—1924)
British mountaineer.

--Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1420—1471)
English writer.
_Le Morte d'Arthur_ [1469-1470]

--Andrι Malraux (1901—1976)
French novelist, essayist, and art critic.
_L'Espoir_ [1937]

--David Mamet (b. 1947)
American playwright and screenwriter.
_Writing in Restaurants_ [1986]

--William Manchester (1922—2004)
American historian.
_The Glory And The Dream_ [1974]
_American Caesar_ [1978]
_A World Lit Only by Fire_ [1992]

--Lord Mancroft (1914—1987)
British Conservative politician.

--Og Mandino (1923—1996)
American author and motivational speaker.
_A Better Way to Live_ [1990]

--Edouard Manet (1832—1883)
French painter.

--Irshad Manji (b. 1969)
Canadian Muslim author.

--Herman Mankiewicz (1897—1953)
American screenwriter.

--Mrs Manley (1663—1724)
English novelist and dramatist.
_The Lost Lover_ [1696]

--Horace Mann (1796—1859)
American educator.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Mary Mann (ed.) _Thoughts: Selected From the Writings of Horace Mann_ [1872]

--Thomas Mann (1875—1955)
German novelist.
_The Magic Mountain_ [1924]
_The Beloved Returns_ [1939]

--Marya Mannes (1904—1990)
American writer and critic.
_But Will it Sell_ [1964]

--Archie Manning (b. 1949)
American professional football player.

--Katherine Mansfield (1888—1923)
New Zealand writer.

--Lord Mansfield (see: William Murray)

--Mike Mansfield (1903—1977)
American politician and Democratic senator from Montana [1952-1977].

--Niccolao Manucci (1639—1717)
Italian writer and traveller.
_Storia do Mogor or Mogul lndia [I705]

--Don Juan Manuel (1282—1349)
Spanish author & nobleman.
_El Conde Lucanor_

--Mao Zedong (1893—1976)
Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier and statesman
who led his nation's communist revolution.

--Diego Maradona (b. 1960)
Argentine football player.

--Jean-Paul Marat (1743—1793)
French politician, physician, and journalist, a leader of the
radical Montagnard faction during the French revolution.

--Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 330— c. 400)
Roman historian.

--John Marchi (b. 1948)
American Republican politician.

--Stanley Marcus (1905—2002)
American retailer.

--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.
_Meditations_, trans. C. R. Haines
_Meditations_, trans. Maxwell Staniforth [1964]

--Orison Swett Marden (1848—1924)
Editor, Success Magazine.

--Walter de la Mare (1873—1956)
English poet, short story writer and novelist.
_Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes_ [1913]

--Julius Margolin (1900—1971)
Russian-born Jewish writer and political activist.
_La Condition Inhumaine_ (Inhuman Condition) [1949]

--Marguerite d'Angoulκme (1492—1549)
French writer, Queen of Navarre.
_The Hyptameron_ [1558]

--Marguerite de Valois (1553—1615)
Queen of France and Navarre.

--Marguerite, Countess of Blessington (1789—1849)
Irish novelist.

--Frances Marion [Marion Benson Owens] (1888—1973)
American journalist, author, and screenwriter.

--Beryl Markham (1902—1986)
British-born Kenyan aviator.
_West with the Night_ [1942]

--Edwin Markham (1852—1940)
American poet and lecturer.
_A Creed_ [1900]

--Dawna Markova
Educator and author.

--Christopher Marlowe (1564—1593)
English dramatist and poet.
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" [c. 1589]
"The Jew of Malta" [c. 1592]
"Doctor Faustus" [1604]

--Jean Franηois Marmontel (1723—1799)
French critic, dramatist, and story writer.

--John P. Marquand (1893—1960)
American novelist.

--Don Marquis (1878—1937)
American poet and journalist.
_archy and mehitabel_ [1927]
_archys life of mehitabel_ [1933]
_archy does his part_ [1935]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Edward Anthony _O Rare Don Marquis: A Biography_ [1962]

--J. W. Marriott, Jr. (b. 1932)
Chairman, Marriott Corp.

--Frederick Marryat (1792—1848)
English novelist.
_Japhet_ [1836]

--George C. (Catlett) Marshall (1880—1959)
American general and statesman.
Biographies and/or related books about:
H.A. De Weerd (ed.) _Selected Speeches and Statements
of General of the Army George C. Marshall_ [1945].

--Humphrey Marshall (1812—1872)
American politician.

--John Marshall (1755—1835)
American lawyer, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court [1802—1835].

--Peter Marshall (1902—1949)
Scottish-American preacher, author, and Senate chaplain.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Catherine Marshall
_A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall_ [1951].

--Thomas R. Marshall (1854—1925)
American politician and 28th vice-president of the United States [1913—1921].
_Recollections_ [1925]

--Thurgood Marshall (1908—1993)
American jurist and first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court [1967—1991].

--Josι Marti (1853—1895)
Poet and essayist, patriot and martyr, who became the
symbol for Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain.

--Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis] (38/41—103)
Roman poet.
_Epigrams_ [86-98]

--Dean Martin (1917—1995)
American film actor and singer.

--Judith "Miss Manners" Martin (b. 1938)
American newspaper columnist.
_Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior_ [2005]

--Kingsley Martin (1897—1969)
British journalist.

--Mary Martin (1913—1990)
American actress, dancer, and singer.

--Steve Martin (b. 1945)
American comedian and actor.

--Harriet Martineau (1802—1876)
English writer.

--Andrew Marvell (1621—1678)
English poet.
"To His Coy Mistress"

--Holt Marvell (aka Eric Maschwitz)
English songwriter.

--Lee Marvin (1924—1987)
American film actor.

--Arthur Marx (1921—2011)
American author and son of Groucho Marx.
_Life with Groucho_ [1954]

--Chico Marx (1891—1961)
American film comedian.

--Groucho Marx (1895—1977)
American film comedian.
_Groucho and Me_ [1959]
_The Groucho Letters_ [1967]
_The Groucho Phile_ [1976]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Hector Arce _Groucho_ [1979]
Stefan Kanfer _Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx_ [2000]

--Karl Marx (1818—1883)
German political philosopher.
_A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right_ [1843—1844]
_The Poverty of Philosophy_ [1847]
_The Communist Manifesto_ [1848] (with Friedrich Engels)
_The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon_ [1852]
_Das Kapital_ [1867]

--Queen Mary (1867—1953)
Queen Consort of George V.

--Jan Masaryk (1886—1948)
Czech statesman and diplomat.

--Eric Maschwitz [pseud. Holt Marvell] (1901—1969)
English songwriter.

--John Masefield (1878—1967)
English novelist, poet, and playwright.
_Collected Poems_ [1923]

--Abraham Maslow (1908—1970)
American psychologist.
_The Psychology of Science_ [1966]

--George Mason (1725—1792)
American statesman, wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Kate Mason Rowland _The Life of George Mason, 1725-1792_ [1892]
Jeff Broadwater _George Mason_ [2006]

--George Champlin Mason (1820—1894)
American architect.

--Jackie Mason [Yacov Moshe Moaza] (b. 1931)
American ordained rabbi and stand-up comedian.

--John Mason (c.1600—1672)
Military hero of the Pequot War.

--Rev. John Mason III (1706—1763)
Presbyterian clergyman and hymn writer.
_A Treatise on Self-Knowledge_ [1803 ed.]

--Gerald Massey (1828—1907)
English poet.

--Philip Massinger (1583—1640)
English Jacobean and Caroline playwright.
_The Maid of Honour_ [1621?]
_The Unnatural Combat_ [c. 1621–1626]
_The Bondman_ [1623]

--Cotton Mather (1663—1728)
American Congregational minister and author.

--Henri Matisse (1869—1954)
French painter.

--Leonard Matlovich (1943—1988)
American Air Force sergeant.

--A.E. Matthews (1869—1960)
English actor.

--T.S. Matthews (1901-1991)
American editor of Time magazine.

--Walter Matthau (1920—2000)
American actor.

--Charles Robert Maturin (1782—1824)
Irish novelist and dramatist.

--Victor Mature (1913—1999)
American film actor.

--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_Of Human Bondage_ [1915]
_The Moon and Sixpence_ [1919]
_The Circle_ [1921]
_The Trembling of a Leaf_ [1921]
_The Bread Winner_ [1930]
_Cakes and Ale_ [1930]
_The Narrow Corner_ [1932]
_Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories_ [1936]
_The Summing Up_ [1938]
_The Mixture as Before_ [1940]
_Strictly Personal_ [1941]
_The Razor's Edge_ [1944]
_A Writer's Notebook_ [1949]

--Bill [William Henry] Mauldin (1921—2003)
American cartoonist.

--Franηois Mauriac (1885—1970)
French poet, novelist, and dramatist.

--Furnley Maurice (1881—1942) [pseudonym of Frank Leslie Thomas Wilmot]
Australian poet.

--Andrι Maurois (1885—1967) (pseudonym of Ιmile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog)
French author.
_The Art of Living_ [1940]
_Lettres a l'Inconnue_ [1953]

--Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840—1916)
American-born British inventor.

--Elsa Maxwell (1883—1963)
American writer and hostess.
_How to Do It or The Lively Art of Entertaining _ [1957]

--William Maxwell (1908—2000)
American writer and "New Yorker" editor.

--Louis B. Mayer (1885—1957)
Russian born American movie producer and co-founder of MGM.

--Benjamin E. Mays (1894—1984)
American educator and president of Morehead College.

--Giuseppe Mazzini (1805—1872)
Italian patriot, philosopher and politician.

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--Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (b. 1947)
Norhern Irish politician.
_The Price of My Soul_ [1969]

--William G. McAdoo (1863—1941)
American senator from California [1933—1938].

--Anthony McAuliffe (1898—1975)
American general.

--John McCain (b. 1936)
American politician and former U.S. Navy pilot who spent five years as
a POW in the Hoa Lo "Hanoi Hilton" prison during the Vietnam War.

--Bruce McCall (b. 1935)
Canadian author and illustrator.
_Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada_ [1997]

--Chris McCarron (b. 1955)
Hall of Fame American jockey.

--Eugene McCarthy (1916—2005)
American politician; U.S. Senator [1959—1971].

--Joseph McCarthy (1908—1957)
American politician, Republican U.S. Senator [1947—1957].

--Mary McCarthy (1912—1989)
American novelist.
_On the Contrary_ [1961]

--Paul McCartney (b. 1942)
English pop singer and songwriter.

--George B. McClellan (1826—1885)
American Union general during the Civil War.
Biographies and/or related books about:
William Starr Myers _A Study in Personality: General George Brinton McClellan_ [1934]

--David McCord (1897—1997)
American poet and essayist.

--John McCrae (1872—1918)
Canadian poet and military physician.

--Carson Smith McCullers (1917—1967)
American author.
_The Heart is a Lonely Hunter_ [1940]
_The Ballad of the Sad Cafι_ [1951]

--David McCullough (b. 1933)
American historian.

--John McEnroe (b. 1959)
American tennis player.

--Ian McEwan (b. 1948)
English novelist.
_Enduring Love_ [1998]

--Phyllis McGinley (1905—1978)
American poet and author.
_The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley_ [1954]

--George S. McGovern (b. 1922)
American politician.

--Jimmie McGregor (b. 1932)
Scottish singer and songwriter.

--Jay McInerney (b. 1955)
American writer.

--John McKay (1923—2001)
American football coach.

--William McKinley (1843—1901)
25th President of the United States from 1897 until his assasination in 1901.

--Rod McKuen (b. 1933)
American poet, composer, and singer.

--Mignon McLaughlin (1913—1983)
American journalist and author.
_The Neurotic's Notebook_ [1960]
_The Second Neurotics Notebook_ [1966]

--Don McLean (b. 1945)
American songwriter and singer.
"American Pie" [1971 song]

--H. (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan (1911—1980)
Canadian professor and author.
_The Gutenberg Galaxy_ [1962]
_Understanding Media_ [1964]

--Patrick F. McManus (b. 1933)
American humorist who writes about the outdoors.
_How I Got This Way_ [1994]

--Larry McMurtry (b. 1936)
American author and screenwriter.
_The Last Picture Show_ [1966]
_Lonesome Dove_ [1985]

--Robert S. McNamara (1916—2009)
American Democratic politician.

--John McNulty (1895—1956)
American writer.

--John McWhorter (b. 1965)
American professor of linguistics and author.
_Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America_ [2000]

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--Margaret Mead (1901—1978)
American anthropologist.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Rhoda Metraux (ed.) _Margaret Mead, Some Personal Views_ [1979]

--Walter Russell Mead (b. 1952)
American historian, author, and foreign policy scholar.

--Hughes Mearns (1875—1965)
American educator and poet.

--Peter Medawar (1915—1987)
Brazilian-born British scientist.

--Cosimo de' Medici (1389—1464)
Italian statesman and patron of the arts.

--Robert Megarry (1910—2006)
British lawyer and judge.

--Golda Meir (1898—1978)
A founder and the fourth prime minister [1969—1974] of the State of Israel.

--Lord Melbourne [William Lamb] (1779—1848)
British Whig statesman.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Lord David Cecil _Lord M_ [1954]

--Viscount Melbourne [Peniston Lamb] (1748—1828)

--Baron Friedrich von Grimm, Friedrich Melchior (1723—1807)
French author.

--William Melmoth (1710—1799)
English author.
_Fitzosborne's Letters, on Several Subjects_ [1742]

--Herman Melville (1819—1891)
American novelist and poet.
_Redburn: His First Voyage_ [1849]
_Moby Dick_ [1851]

--Menander (343?—291 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Monostikoi_

--Mencius (c. 372 BC — c. 289 BC)
Chinese philosopher.

--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_A Book of Burlesques_ [1916]
_A Little Book in C Major_ [1916]
_A Book of Prefaces_ [1917]
_Damn! A Book of Calumny_ [1918]
_In Defense of Women_ [1918]
_The American Language_ [1919]
_Prejudices: First Series_ [1919]
_Prejudices: Second Series_ [1920]
_Prejudices: Third Series_ [1922]
_Prejudices: Fourth Series_ [1924]
_Notes on Democracy_ [1926]
_Prejudices: Fifth Series_ [1926]
_Prejudices: Sixth Series_ [1927]
_Treatise on the Gods_ [1930]
_Newspaper Days: 1899—1906_ [1941]
_A Mencken Chrestomathy_ [1949]
_Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks_ [1956]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Malcolm Moos (ed.) _H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe_ [1956]
Guy J. Forgue (ed.) _Letters of H. L. Mencken_ [1961]
Carl Bode (ed.) _The Young Mencken: The Best of His Work_ [1973]
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (ed.) _Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters_ [1987]

--Karl Menninger (1893—1990)
American psychiatrist.
_Man Against Himself_ [1938]

--Yehudi Menuhin (1916—1999)
American-born British violinist.

--Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (1894—1978)
16th and 21st Prime Minister of Australia
[26 Apr 1939 — 29 Aug. 1941; 19 Dec 1949 — 26 Jan 1966].

--Johnny Mercer (1909—1976)
American songwriter.

--George Meredith (1828—1909)
English novelist and poet.

--J.F. Meredith (late 19th cent.)
American clergyman.

--Owen Meredith (pseudonym of Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
_Lucile_

--Judith Merril (1923—1997)
American science fiction author, anthologist, and humanist.
_Daughters of Earth_ [1968]

--Dixon Lanier Merritt (1879—1972)
American editor and poet.

--Thomas Merton (1915—1968)
American Trappist monk and author.
_The Seven Storey Mountain_ [1948]
_Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander_ [1966]

--Edmond Marin La Meslιe (1852—1893)
French-Australian geographer.
_The New Australia_ [1883]

--Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773—1859)
Austrian politician and statesman.

--Gabriel Meurier (1530—1601)
Flemish grammarian and writer.

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--Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475—1564)
Florentine sculptor, artist, architect and poet.

--James Michener (1907—1997)
American author and winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
_Tales of the South Pacific_ [1946]
_Return to Paradise_ [1951]
_Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections_ [1968]

--Bette Midler (b. 1945)
American singer, actress, and producer.

--Midrash (4th cent. B.C.—A.D. 12th cent.)
Hebrew Scriptures.

--George Mikes (1912—1987)
Hungarian-born British author.
_How to Be an Alien_ [1946]

--William Porcher Miles (1822—1899)
American politician.

--Stanley Milgram (1933—1984)
American psychologist.
_Obedience To Authority_ [1974]

--John Stuart Mill (1806—1873)
English philosopher and social reformer.
_On Liberty_ [1859]
_Dissertations and Discussions_ [1859]
_The Subjection of Women_ [1869]
_Autobiography_ [1873]

--Margaret Millar [nιe Sturm] (1915—1994)
Canadian-born mystery writer.
_The Soft Talkers_ [1957]

--Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950)
American poet.
_Second April_ [1921]
_The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems_ [1923]

--Alice Miller (b. 1923— )
Polish-born Swiss-German psychologist.

--Alice Duer Miller (1874—1942)
American writer and poet.
_Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times_ [1915]

--Arthur Miller (1915—2005)
American dramatist.
"After the Fall" [1964]
"Timebends" [1987]

--Henry Miller (1891—1980)
American novelist and essayist.
_Tropic of Cancer_ [France 1934]
_Tropic of Capricorn_ [France 1939, USA 1962]
_The Colossus of Maroussi_ [1941]
_The Wisdom of the Heart_ [1941]
_A Devil in Paradise_ [1956]

--Joaquin Miller [Cincinnatus Hiner Miller] (1837—1913)
American poet and journalist.
_Songs of the Sierras_ [1871]

--John Homer Miller (1839—1913)
American poet.

--Charles Millhuff
American evangelist.

--Spike [Terence Alan] Milligan (1918—2002)
Irish novelist, poet, musician, and comedian.
_Puckoon_ [1963]

--Robert A. Millikan (1868—1953)
American physicist - winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize for physics.

--C. Wright Mills (1916—1962)
American sociologist.
__The Power Elite_ [1956]
_The Sociological Imagination_ [1959]

--A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882—1956)
English writer for children.
_Not That it Matters_ [1920]
_Winnie-the-Pooh_ [1926]
_House at Pooh Corner_ [1928]
_Year In, Year Out_ [1952]

--Lord Milner (1854—1925)
British colonial administrator.

--John Milton (1608—1674)
English poet.
_Lycidas_ [1638]
_Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing_ [1644]
_Paradise Lost_ [1667]
_Paradise Regained_ [1671]

--Liza Minelli (b. 1946)
American singer and actress.

--Newton Norman Minow (b. 1926)
Chairman of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission).

--John Minsheu (1559/60—1627)
English linguist and lexicographer.
_A Spanish Grammar_ [1599]

--Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715—1789)
French political economist and father of the French
revolutionary Comte de Mirabeau.

--Ludwig von Mises (1881—1973)
Austrian-American liberatarian economist.

--"Mission Impossible" [American TV show 1966—1973]

--Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932)
English poet, novelist, and dramatist.

--Joni Mitchell [Roberta Joan Anderson] (b. 1943)
Canadian-born American singer and songwriter.

--Margaret Mitchell (1900—1949)
American novelist.
_Gone with the Wind_ [1936]

--Robert Mitchum (1917—1997)
American film actor.

--Nancy Mitford (1904—1973)
English writer.
_The Pursuit of Love_ [1945]
_The Water Beetle_ [1962]

--Wilson Mizner (1876—1933)
American playwright.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Edward Dean Sullivan _The Fabulous Wilson Mizner_ [1935]
Alva Johnston _The Legendary Mizners_ [1953]
John Burke _Rogue's Progress: The Fabulous Adventures of Wilson Mizner_ [1975]

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--Amedeo Modigliani (1884—1920)
Italian painter and sculptor.

--Dominique Moisi
Adjunct director of the French Institute for International Relations in Paris.

--Jean Moliθre [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622—1673)
French comic dramatist.
_L'Ιcole des Femmes_ [1662]
_Tartuffe_ [1664]
_Le Misanthrope_ [1666]
_Le Bourgeois gentilhomme_ (The Would-be Gentleman) [1670]
_Le Malade imaginaire_ [1673]

--Ferenc Molnαr (1878—1952)
Hungarian dramatist and novelist.

--Claude Monet (1840—1926)
French painter who was the leader of the Impressionist movement in France.

--"Monkey Business" [1931 film]

--William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840—1901)
English poet and critic.

--James Monroe (1758—1831)
Fifth President of the United States [1817—1825].

--Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson] (1926—1962)
American actress.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Pete Martin _Marilyn Monroe_ [1956].

--Nicholas Monsarrat (1910—1979)
English novelist.
_Breaking In, Breaking Out_ [1971]

--Ashley Montagu [Israel Ehrenberg] (1905—1999)
English anthropologist and humanist.

--John Montagu [4th Earl of Sandwich] (1718—1792)
English politician.

--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nιe Pierrepont] (1689—1762)
English aristocrat and writer.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Lord Wharncliffe (ed.) _The Letters and Works
of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu_ ]3 vols, 1837]

--C.E. Montague (1867—1928)
English novelist and essayist.
_Disenchantment_ [1922]
_The Right Place_ [1924]
_A Writer's Notes on His Trade_ [1936]

--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays) [pub. 1580—1588].

--Baron de Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat) (1689—1755)
French philosopher, jurist, and satirist.
_The Spirit of the Laws_ [1748]

--Montezuma I (c.1398—1469)
Emperor of the Mexican people from 1440-1468.

--Casimir, Comte de Montrond (1768—1843)
French diplomat.

--Dwight Lyman Moody (1837—1899)
American evangelist and publisher.

--William Least Heat Moon [Bill Trogdon] (b. 1939)
American author.
_Blue Highways_ [1982]

--Clement Clarke Moore (1779—1863)
American teacher and scholar of Hebrew.
"A Visit from St. Nicholas"

--F. Frankfort Moore (1855—1931)
British dramatist, novelist, and poet.
_A Garden of Peace_ [1919]

--George Augustus Moore (1852—1933)
Irish novelist.
_Confessions of a Young Man_ [1888]
_The Brook Kerith_ [1916]

--Edward Moore (1712—1757)
English playwright.

--Henry Moore (1898—1986)
British artist and sculptor.

--Michael Moore (b. 1954)
American propagandist.

--Terry Moore [Helen Koford] (b. 1929)
American actress.

--Thomas Moore (1779—1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.
_Juvenile Poems_ [1801]
_Irish Melodies_ [1807-1834]
_National Airs_ [1815]
_Sacred Songs_ [1816]
_The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore_ [1851]

--Alan Moorhead (1910—1983)
Australian war correspondent and author.
_The Fatal Impact: The Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840_ [1966]

--Harry "Breaker" Morant (1864—1902)
English-born Australian poet and soldier.

--Hannah More (1745—1833)
English religious writer.
Biographies and/or related books about:
William Roberts _Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More_ [1834]
_The Letters of Hannah More_ [1925]

--Sir Thomas More (1478—1535)
English lawyer, social philosopher, author, and martyr.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Cresacre More _The Life of Sir Thomas More_ [1828]

--Jeanne Moreau (b. 1928)
French actress.

--Thomas Morell (1703—1784)
English librettist.

--John Pierpont Morgan, Sr. (1837—1913)
American banker, financier, and benefactor of the arts.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Jean Strouse _Morgan_ [1999]

--Piers Morgan (b. 1965)
British newspaper editor.

--Robin Morgan (b. 1941)
American feminist activist.
_Sisterhood is Powerful_ [1970]
_Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist_ [1977]

--Lady Sydney Morgan [Sydney Owenson] (1783—1859)
Irish novelist.

--Hans J. Morgenthau (1904—1980)
German-born American pioneer in the field of international relations theory.
_Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace_
Fifth Edition, Revised, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978)

--Edgar Morin [Edgar Nahoum] (b. 1921)
French sociologist.

--Samuel Eliot Morison (1887—1976)
American historian, author and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.
_The Two-Ocean War_ [1963]
_The Oxford History of the American People_ [1965]

--Christopher Morley (1890—1957)
American journalist, novelist, and poet.
_Parnassus on Wheels_ [1917]
_Parson's Pleasure_ [1923]

--Lord [John] Morley (1838—1923)
British Liberal politician, writer, and newspaper editor.
_Recollections_ [1917]

--Robert Morley (1908—1992)
English actor.

--Desmond Morris (b. 1928)
English anthropologist and author.
_The Human Zoo_ [1969]
_The Animal Contract_ [1990]
_Dogwatching_ [1993]

--Edmund Morris (b. 1940)
Kenyan-born American biographer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
_Theodore Rex_ [2001]

--George Pope Morris (1802—1864)
American poet.

--Herbert Morrison (1905—1989)
American broadcaster.

--Toni Morrison [Chloe Anthony Woffard] (b. 1931)
American novelist.
_Beloved_ [1987]

--Mary Manin Morrissey (b. 1949)

--Dwight Morrow (1873—1931)
American lawyer, banker, and diplomat.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Harold Nicolson _Dwight Morrow_ [1935]

--Samuel F. B. Morse (1791—1872)
American painter and inventor who developed an electric telegraph.

--John Mortimer (1923—2009)
English barrister and author.
_Murderers & Other Friends_ [1994]

--Raymond Mortimer (1895—1980)
English writer and critic.

--J.B. Morton [Beachcomber] (1893—1979)
English humorous writer.

--Zero Mostel (1915—1977)
Stage actor who was blacklisted in the 1950s.

--Willard Motley (1909—1965)
American novelist.
_Knock on Any Door_ [1947]

--Louis Mountbatten (1900—1979)
British war hero.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Richard Hough _Mountbatten_ [1980]

--Robert B. Mowat (1883—1941)
British historian.
_The United States of America_ [1938]

--Bill Moyers (b. 1934)
American journalist and public commentator.

--Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927—2003)
American scholar and politician.

--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756—1791)
Austrian composer regarded as one of the greatest musical geniuses ever.

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--Hosni Mubarak (b. 1928)
Egyptian President [1981— ].

--Robert Mugabe (b. 1924)
President of Zimbabwe [1980— ].

--Malcolm Muggeridge (1903—1990)
British writer, broadcaster, and journalist.
_Tread Softly_ [1966]
_Jesus Rediscovered_ [1969]
_Chronicles of Wasted Time: An Autobiography_ [1972]
_My Life in Pictures_ [1987]

--Muhammad (A.D. 570?—632)
Prophet to whom the religion of Islam was revealed.
_The Sayings of Muhammad_, tr. Abdullah Al-Suhrawardy [1941]

--John Muir (1838—1914)
Scottish-born naturalist who was largely responsible
for the creation of Sequoia and Yosemite national parks.
_Our National Parks_ [1901]

--Sir Robert Muldoon (1921—1992)
Prime Minister of New Zealand [1975—1984].

--Brian Mulroney (b. 1939—)
Canadian prime minister [1984—1993].

--Lewis Mumford (1895—1990)
American architectural critic, urban planner, and historian.
_The Brown Decades_ [1931]
_The Condition of Man_ [1944]
_The Conduct of Life_ [1951]

--Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Mόnch-Bellinghausen (1806—1871)
Austrian dramatist, poet and short-story writer.
_Der Sohn der Wildnis_ [1842]

--Baron Mόnchhausen (1720—1797)
German nobleman.

--Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (1919—1999)
Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher.
_The Red and the Green_ [1965]

--Rupert Murdock (b. 1931)
Australian-born American publisher.

--Arthur Murphy [pseudonym: Charles Ranger] (1727—1805)
Irish actor and playright.

--Dale Murphy (b. 1956)
American professional baseball player.

--William Murray (Lord Mansfield) (1705—1793)
Scottish barrister and judge.

--William Murray (1927—2005)
Writer for the New Yorker and author of mystery novels.

--Edward R. Murrow [Egbert Roscoe Murrow] (1908—1965)
American broadcaster and journalist.

--Carol Muske-Dukes (b. 1945)
American poet.

--Alfred de Musset (1810—1857)
French poet, dramatist, and author.
_Story of the White Blackbird_ (Histoire d'un merle blanc) [1842]

--Benito Mussolini (1883—1945)
Italian Fascist dictator.
Biographies and/or related books about:
George Seldes _Sawdust Caesar_ [1935]
Denis Mack-Smith _Mussolini's Roman Empire_ [1967]


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--Vladimir Nabokov [pen name Vladimir Sirin] (1899—1977)
Russian-born American novelist.
_Speak, Memory_ [1951]
_Lolita_ [1955]
_Pale Fire_ [1962]

--Nagarjuna (c. 150—250 A.D.)
Indian philosopher.

--Bronko Nagurski (1908—1990)
Canadian-born U.S. football player and wrestler.

--V.S. Naipaul (b. 1932)
Trinidadian novelist and travel writer.

--John Naisbitt (b. 1929)
American author and public speaker.
_Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives_ [1982]

--Joe Namath (b. 1943)
American football player.

--Lewis B. Namier [Ludvik Bernstein] (1888—1960)
Polish-born English historian.

--Fridtjof Nansen (1861—1930)
Norwegian polar explorer.

--Sir Charles James Napier (1782—1853)
British general, conqueror [1843] and governor
[1843—1847] of Sindh [India, now in Pakistan].

--Napoleon I (1769—1821)
Emperor of France [1804—1815].
Biographies and/or related books about:
_The Table Talk And Opinions Of Napoleon Buonaparte_
[pub. by S. Low, and Marston, London, 1868]
_The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words_
ed. J. Christopher Herold [1955]

--Josι Narosky (b. 1930)
Argentine writer.

--Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
American writer of humorous poetry.
_Happy Days_ [1933]
_The Primrose Path_ [1935]
_The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash_ [1945]
_You Can't Get There From Here_ [1957]
_Marriage Lines_ [1964]
_There's Always Another Windmill_ [1968]

--Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918—1970)
Egyptian army officer, prime minister [1954—1956] and president of Egypt [1956—1970].

--Thomas Nast (1840—1902)
German-born American cartoonist.

--George Jean Nathan (1882—1958)
American drama critic and editor.
_Testament of a Critic_ [1930]
_The Theater in the Fifties_ [1953]

--Carry Nation (Carry Amelia Nation, nθe Moore)
[1846—1911]
American temperance advocate.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Carleton Beals _Cyclone Carry_ [1962]

--Martina Navratilova (b. 1957)
Czech-born American tennis player.

--James Ball Naylor (1860—1945)
American physician and writer.

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--Helen Knothe Nearing & Scott Nearing
--Helen Knothe Nearing (1904—1995)
American musician and writer.
--Scott Nearing (1883—1983)
American conservationist, peace activist, educator and writer.

--Sergey Nechaev (1847—1882)
Russian revolutionary.
_Catechism of the Revolutionary_ [1869]

--Madame Suzanne Necker [nιe Curchod] (1739—1794)
Swiss wife of Jacques Necker, mistress of a Parisian
salon, and mother of Madame de Staλl.

--Michael Nedelsky
South Dakota educator [19 October 1987]

--Richard John Needham (1912—1996)
British-born Canadian writer.

--Jawaharlal Nehru (1889—1964)
Indian statesman.
_Glimpses of World History_ [1942]

--Reinhold Neibuhr (1892—1971)
American theologian.

--Horatio Nelson (1758—1805)
British naval commander.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Robert Southey _The Life of Nelson_ [2 vols., 1813]

--Ricky Nelson [Eric Hilliard Nelson] (1940—1985)
American singer and TV actor.

--Howard Nemerov (1920—1991)
American novelist and poet.

--Kira Nerys (fictional chacter in "Star Trek")

--Benjamin Netanyahu (b. 1949)
Prime Minister of Israel [1996—1999 & 2008— ].

--Richard John Neuhaus (1936—2009)
Canadian Catholic priest and writer.

--John von Neumann (1903—1957)
Hungarian-born American mathematician.

--Simon Newcomb (1835—1909)
Canadian-born American astronomer and mathematician.

--Bob Newhart (b. 1929)
American stand-up comedian and actor.

--Anthony Newley (1931—1999)
English actor, singer and songwriter.

--Andrea Newman (b. 1938)
British dramatist.

--John Henry Newman (1801—1890)
English theologian and leader of the Oxford movement, later Cardinal.
_Parochial and Plain Sermons_ [8 vol., 1875]

--Paul Newman (1925—2008)
Amercan actor.

--Byron Rufus Newton (1861—1938)
American poet.

--Howard W. Newton (1903—1951)
American advertising executive and magazine columnist.

--Sir Isaac Newton (1642—1727)
English mathematician and physicist.
Biographies and/or related books about:
David Brewster (ed.)
_Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton_ [1855]

--Joseph Fort Newton (1878?—1950)
Clergyman and Masonic author.

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--Nicholas I (1796—1855)
Russian emperor from 1825.

--Mike Nichols (b. 1931)
German-born American director and producer.

--Nicolas de Nicolay (1517—1583)
French traveler.

--Harold Nicolson (1886—1968)
English diplomat, politician, and writer.
_The Evolution of Diplomacy_ [1954]

--Norman Nicholson (1914—1987)
British poet and writer.
"Weeds" [1981]

--William Nicholson (b. 1948)
English screenwriter, playwright, and novelist.

--Joseph Nicollet (1786—1843)
French geographer and mathematician.

--Reinhold Niebuhr (1892—1971)
American theologian.
_An Interpretation of Christian Ethics_ [1935]
_The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness_ [1944]
_The Irony of American History_ [1962]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Richard Wightman Fox _Reinhold Niebuhr_ [1985].

--Martin Niemφller (1892—1984)
German theologian.

--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Human, All Too Human_ [1878], tr. Alexander Harvey [1915]
_Human, All Too Human_ [1878], tr. Marion Faber [1984]
_The Wanderer and His Shadow_ [1880]
_The Dawn_ [1881]
_The Gay Science_ (Die frφhliche Wissenschaft) [1882]
_Thus Spake Zarathustra_ (Also sprach Zarathustra) [1883—1885]
_Beyond Good and Evil_ [1887] tr. William Kaufmann [1966]
_Twilight of the Idols_ [1889]
_Ecce Homo_ [1888]
_The Anti-Christ_ [written 1888, published 1895]
_Works_ [1920—1929]
Biographies and/or related books about:
William Mackintire Salter _Nietzsche the Thinker: A Study_ [1917].

--Florence Nightingale (1820—1910)
English nurse.
_Notes on Hospitals_ [1859]

--Chester William Nimitz (1885—1966)
Commander in Chief of Pacific forces during World War II.

--Anaοs Nin (1903—1977)
French-born American writer.
_Winter of Artifice_ [1939]
_Seduction of the Minotaur_ [1961]
_The Diary of Anaοs Nin_ [1966]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Nancy Scholar _Anaοs Nin_ [1984]

--Robert Nivelle (1856—1924)
French general.

--David Niven (James David Graham Nevins) (1910—1983)
Scottish actor.

--Richard Nixon (1913—1994)
American Republican statesman, President [1969—1974].
_The Real War_ [1980]
_In the Arena_ [1990]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Earl Mazo, _Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait_ [1959]

--Louis Nizer (1902—1994)
English-born American lawyer.
_My Life in Court_ [1961]

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--Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833—1896)
Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who
invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prizes.

--Albert Jay Nock (1870—1945)
American libertarian author and social critic.
_Memoirs of a Superfluous Man_ [1943]

--Dorothy Law Nolte (1924—2005)
American parenting expert and author.

--Peggy Noonan (b. 1950)
Speechwriter for U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
_What I Saw at the Revolution_ [1990]

--Kathleen Norris (1880—1966)
American author.
_Bread into Roses_ [1936]

--"North By Northwest" [1959 movie]

--Lord Northcliffe (1865—1922)
British newspaper proprietor.

--Charles Eliot Norton (1827—1908)
American scholar.
_True Patriotism_ [1898]

--Jack Norworth (1879—1959)
American songwriter.

--Henri Nouwen (1932—1996)
Dutch Catholic priest and writer.
_Out of Solitude_ [1974]

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--Trevor Nunn (b. 1940)
British theatre director.

--Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947)
American philosopher.
_Cultivating Humanity_ [1997]

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--Bill [Edgar Wilson] Nye (1850—1896)
American humorist.


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