Genre search:Biography

True : the four seasons of Jackie Robinson

by Kostya Kennedy
Paper Book, 2022
Tags
Robinson Jackie 1919-1972., Baseball players, African Americans -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
796.357 ROBINSON Kennedy

My life in full : work, family, and our future

by Indra K. Nooyi
Paper Book, 2021
Tags
Nooyi Indra 1955-, Women executives -- India -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
338.761 NOOYI Nooyi

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790.
Book, 1916
Tags
Special collection., United States -- Biography., Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
973.3092 FRANKLIN Franklin

Notes from china

by Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim) 1912-1989 Tuchman
Paper Book, 1972
Tags
China -- Description and travel
Status
Available
Call number
951.05 Tuchman

Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45

by Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim) 1912-1989 Tuchman
Book, 1971
Tags
World War 1939-1945 -- China., United States -- Foreign relations -- China., China -- Foreign relations -- United States, Stilwell Joseph Warren 1883-1946.
Status
Available
Call number
951.04 STILWELL Tuchman

Brethren by nature : New England Indians, colonists, and the origins of American slavery

by Margaret Ellen Newell
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Indian slaves -- New England -- History., Slavery -- New England -- History., Indians of North America -- New England., New England -- Race relations.
Status
Available
Call number
974.004 Newell

Creating Family Archives: A Step-by-Step Guide to Saving Your Memories for Future Generations

by Margot Note
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Family archives -- Handbooks manuals etc., Personal archives -- Handbooks manuals etc, Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration -- Handbooks manuals etc., Preservation of materials -- Handbooks manuals etc., Genealogy., Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration, Family archives., Personal archives., Preservation of materials.
Status
Available
Call number
929.1 Note

Anya Seton : a writing life.

by Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan
Paper Book, 2020
Tags
Authors -- Connecticut -- Greenwich, Authors American -- 20th Century -- Biography, Women authors -- Connecticut -- Greenwich.
Status
Available
Call number
813.54 SETON MacKethan

The time of my life : sixty fulfilling years as a congregational rabbi

by Hillel E. Silverman
Paper Book, 2009
Status
Available
Call number
296.8 SILVERMAN Silverman

Guide to historic artists' homes & studios

by Valerie A. Balint
Paperback, 2020
Tags
Artists' studios, Architecture Domestic -- United States, Bush-Holley House (Cos Cob Conn.)
Status
Available
Call number
709.7 Balint

The life of George Washington, commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States.

by John Marshall, 1755-1835.
Paper Book, 1926
Tags
Special collection., Washington George 1732-1799., Presidents -- United States -- Biography., United States -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775., Generals -- United States -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
973.41 WASHINGTON Marshall

Journal of Katherine Mansfield.

by Katherine Mansfield, 1888-1923.
Paper Book, 1927
Tags
Special collection., Mansfield Katherine 1888-1923 -- Diaries., Authors New Zealand -- 20th century -- Diaries
Status
Available
Call number
823.9 MANSFIELD Murry

Trail of an artist-naturalist.

by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1860-1946
Paper Book, 1940
Tags
Special collection., Seton Ernest Thompson 1860-1946., Naturalists -- United States -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
574.092 SETON Seton 1940

The diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729.

by Samuel Sewall, 1652-1730.
Paper Book, 1973
Tags
Special collection., Sewall Samuel 1652-1730., Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775.
Status
Available
Call number
974.402 SEWALL Thomas

Washington's farewell address to the people of the United States : with an abstract of his last will and testament ; to which is prefixed, a comprehensive sketch of his life and character.

by George 1732-1799 Washington
Book, 1812
Tags
Special collection., Washington George 1732-1799 -- Farewell address.
Status
Available
Call number
973.41 Washington

Bradford's history "Of Plimoth plantation" : from the original manuscript : with a report of the proceedings incident to the return of the manuscript to Massachusetts

by William Bradford, 1588-1657
Paper Book, 1899
Tags
Special collection., Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775.
Status
Available
Call number
974.402 Bradford

An essay on the life of the Honourable Major General Israel Putnam.

by David Humphreys, 1752-1818
Paper Book, 1818
Tags
Special collection., Putnam Israel 1718-1790., Generals -- United States -- Biography., United States -- History -- French and Indian War 1755-1763 -- Campaigns., Connecticut -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783., United States -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783 -- Campaigns and battles., Bunker Hill Battle of (Boston Mass) 1775
Status
Available
Call number
973.344 PUTNAM Humphreys

The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus

by Washington Irving, 1783-1859
Paper Book, 1833
Tags
Special collection., Columbus Christopher, Explorers -- Spain -- Biography., Explorers -- America -- Biography., America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish, America -- History -- To 1810
Status
Available
Call number
973.1 COLUMBUS Irving

A hilltop on the Marne : being letters written June 3-September 8, 1914.

by Mildred Aldrich, 1853-1928
Paper Book, 1915
Tags
Special collection., World War 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives., Marne 1st Battle of the France 1914.
Status
Available
Call number
940.48 ALDRICH Aldrich

Stamford, Connecticut : a bibliography...

by Ronald Marcus
Paper Book, 1995
Tags
Stamford (Conn.) -- History -- Bibliography., Stamford (Conn.) -- Biography -- Bibliography., Stamford (Conn.) -- Genealogy -- Bibliography.
Status
Available
Call number
974.6918 Marcus

Bedford

by Shirley Lindefjeld Bianco
Paper Book, 2003
Tags
Bedford (N.Y.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- Bedford -- Pictorial works., Bedford (N.Y. ) -- Buildings structures etc. -- Pictorial works, Bedford (N.Y.) -- Biography -- Pictorial works
Series
Images of America [Arcadia] (New York)
Status
Available
Call number
974.72 Bianco

Liaison : an instinctive way of life : a memoir.

by Ernest Hillman
Paper Book, 2000
Tags
Hillman Ernest., Hillman Ernest -- Friends and associates., Upper class -- United States -- Biography., Fairfield (Conn.) -- Biography., Businessmen -- United States -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
338.761 HILLMAN Hillman

Belle Haven II : the end of an era.

by Joan Askew De Garmo
Paperback, 1999
Tags
De Garmo Joan Askew -- Family., Prescott Marjorie Wiggin 1893-1980 -- Family., De Garmo family., Prescott family., Connecticut -- Biography, Maine -- Biography., De Garmo Joan Askew., Prescott Marjorie Wiggin 1893-1980.
Status
Available
Call number
974.6908 De Garmo 1999

More than petticoats : remarkable Connecticut women.

by Antonia Petrash
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
Women -- Connecticut -- Biography., Women -- Connecticut -- History., Connecticut -- Biography
Series
More Than Petticoats
Status
Available
Call number
305.4 Petrash

The journal of Madam Knight.

by Sarah Kemble Knight, 1666-1727.
Paper Book, 1971
Tags
New England -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800., Knight Sarah Kemble 1666-1727.
Status
Available
Call number
917.4 KNIGHT Knight

Record and remember : tracing your roots through oral history

by Ellen Robinson Epstein
Paper Book, 1978
Tags
United States -- Genealogy., Oral biography., Genealogy.
Status
Available
Call number
929.1 Epstein

Guide to genealogical and biographical sources for New York City (Manhattan) 1783-1898.

by Rosalie Fellows Bailey, 1908-
Paper Book, 1954
Tags
Registers of births etc. -- New York (State) -- New York -- Bibliography., Manuscripts -- New York (State) -- New York -- Guidebooks., New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy -- Bibliography., New York (N.Y.) -- Biography -- Bibliography., New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography.
Status
Available
Call number
929.1 Bailey

Up and over : a memoir of Joe Dowling.

by Alyssa Shirley Morein
Paper Book, 2016
Tags
Dowling Joe 1939-, Athletes -- United States -- Biography, Athletes with disabilities -- United States -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
796.092 DOWLING Morein

Living biographies of famous novelists.

by Henry Thomas, 1886-
Paper Book, 1943
Tags
Novelists.
Status
Available
Call number
803 Thomas

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. : Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the dawn of the modern woman.

by Sam Wasson
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Motion picture), Hepburn Audrey 1929-1993.
Status
Available
Call number
791.4372 Wasson

Olive Thomas : the life and death of a silent film beauty.

by Michelle Vogel
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Thomas Olive 1898-1920., Thomas Olive 1898-1920 -- Death and burial., Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
791.4302 THOMAS Vogel

John Ferguson Weir : the labor of art.

by Betsy Fahlman
Paper Book, 1997
Tags
Weir John F. (John Ferguson) 1841-1926., Weir, John F. (John Ferguson) b. 1841 -- Criticism and interpretation., Painters -- United States -- Biography.
Series
American arts series.
Status
Available
Call number
759.14 WEIR JOHN Fahlman

Painters of Peconic : Edith Prellwitz (1864-1944) & Henry Prellwitz (1865-1940)

by Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, 1864-1944.
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
Prellwitz Henry 1865-1940 -- Exhibitions., Prellwitz Edith Mitchill 1864-1944 -- Exhibitions., Painting American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Status
Available
Call number
759.14 PRELLWITZ Pisano

Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

by Spanierman Gallery.
Paper Book, 1988
Tags
Hassam Childe 1859-1935 -- Exhibitions., Painting American -- Catalogs., Impressionism (Art) -- United States -- Exhibitions.
Series
Distinguished American artists
Status
Available
Call number
759.14 HASSAM Spanierman

A visit to Giverny

by Gerald van der Kemp, 1912-2001
Paper Book, 1996
Tags
Monet Claude 1840-1926 -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Giverny., Giverny (France) -- In art., Gardens -- France -- Giverny., Painters -- France -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
709.7304 Kemp

Wallace Nutting

by Louis M. MacKeil
Paper Book, 1984
Tags
Nutting Wallace 1861-1941., Congregational churches -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography, Photographers -- New England -- Biography., Furniture workers -- New England -- Biography., New England -- Biography.
Series
Saugus Historical Society booklet, no. 2.
Status
Available
Call number
770.92 NUTTING MacKeil

Elsie De Wolfe : the birth of modern interior decoration.

by Penny Sparke
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
De Wolfe Elsie 1865-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation., Interior decoration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Status
Available
Call number
747.092 DE WOLFE Sparke

Kewpies and beyond : the world of Rose O'Neill

by Shelley Armitage, 1947-
Paper Book, 1994
Tags
O'Neill Rose Cecil 1874-1944., Illustrators -- United States -- Biography.
Series
Studies in Popular Culture, Studies in popular culture (Jackson, Miss.)
Status
Available
Call number
741.6 O'NEILL Armitage

The colonial burying grounds of eastern Connecticut and the men who made them

by James A. (James Alexander) Slater, 1920-2008
Paper Book, 1987
Tags
Sepulchral monuments -- Connecticut., Sepulchral slabs -- Connecticut., Sculpture Modern -- Connecticut., Christian art and symbolism -- Connecticut, Stone carving -- Connecticut., Stone carvers -- Connecticut -- Biography., Tombs -- Connecticut.
Status
Available
Call number
735.66 Slater

Leopold Eidlitz : architecture and idealism in the Gilded Age

by Kathryn E. Holliday
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Eidlitz Leopold 1823-1908., Architects -- United States -- Biography, Eidlitz Leopold 1823-1908 -- Catalogs.
Status
Available
Call number
720.92 EIDLITZ Holliday

The Henry Clay Frick houses : architecture, interior, landscapes in the golden era

by Martha Frick Symington Sanger
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
Mansions -- United States., Frick Henry Clay 1849-1919 -- Homes and haunts., Architecture -- United States -- History -- 19th century, Interior decoration -- United States -- History -- 19th century., Frick family -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
720.92 FRICK Sanger

Hirshhorn : Medici from Brooklyn : a biography

by Barry Hyams
Paper Book, 1979
Tags
Hirshhorn Joseph H. 1899-1981., Art -- Collectors and collecting, Brooklyn (New York N.Y.) -- Biography, Collectors and collecting
Status
Available
Call number
708.1 HIRSHHORN Hyams

Long Island landscapes and the women who designed them

by Cynthia Zaitzevsky
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
Landscape architects -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Biography., Women landscape architects -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Biography., Landscape architecture -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- History -- 20th century.
Status
Available
Call number
712.092 Zaitzevsky

Pioneers of American landscape design

by Charles A. Birnbaum
Paper Book, 2000
Tags
Landscape architects -- United States -- Biography., Horticulturists -- United States -- Biography., Planners -- United States -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
712.092 Birnbaum

Painting and sculpture in the collection of the National Academy of Design

by David B. (David Bernard) Dearinger, 1950-
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
Art American -- 19th century -- Catalogs, Art American -- 20th century -- Catalogs, Art -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs, National Academy of Design (U.S.) -- Catalogs., Artists -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
708.147 Dearinger

Little man in a big hurry : the life of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, uranium king and art collector.

by Gene Hirshhorn LePere, 1926-
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Biography, Jews -- Latvia -- Biography., Local author., Hirshhorn Joseph H. 1899-1981., Art objects -- Collectors and collecting -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
709.2 HIRSHHORN LePere

Dictionary of artists in America

by New York Historical Society.
Paper Book, 1957
Tags
Artists -- United States -- Dictionaries
Status
Available
Call number
709.7 New

Colt : the making of an American legend

by William N. Hosley
Paper Book, 1996
Tags
Colt Samuel 1814-1862, Gunsmiths -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Biography., Colt revolver -- History, Hartford (Conn.) -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
683.4 COLT Hosley

Playing right field : a Jew grows in Greenwich.

by George Tabb
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
Tabb George., Jews -- Connecticut -- Greenwich -- Biography., Punk rock musicians -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
782.4216 TABB Tabb

An island garden.

by Celia Thaxter, 1835-1894.
Paper Book, 1988
Tags
Thaxter Celia 1835-1894., Gardens -- Maine -- Appledore Island., Celia Thaxter's Garden (Appledore Island Me.), Appledore Island (Me.) -- Description and travel
Status
Available
Call number
635.9097 THAXTER Thaxter
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