Eminent Lives

The Eminent Lives series is HarperCollins' series of "brief biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures." The general editor of the series was James Atlas.

The series includes books by:


 * Robert Gottlieb on George Balanchine
 * Paul Johnson on George Washington
 * Christopher Hitchens on Thomas Jefferson
 * Michael Korda on Ulysses S. Grant
 * Francine Prose on Caravaggio
 * Edmund Morris on Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Joseph Epstein on Alexis de Tocqueville
 * Peter Kramer on Sigmund Freud
 * Karen Armstrong on Muhammad
 * Bill Bryson on William Shakespeare
 * Matt Ridley on Francis Crick
 * Ross King on Niccolò Machiavelli.