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Influential People Who Connected Two Very Different Fields
Influential People Who Connected Two Very Different Fields
by curious_compiler  • 
3 in common: Primo Levi, William Carlos Williams and 1 more
A second job is not automatically a second field of influence. These biographies are here because a sustained practice in one area met substantial work in another, producing a useful method, a...
People
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People Who Combined Scientific and Artistic Careers
People Who Combined Scientific and Artistic Careers
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Alexander Borodin
A few people have done serious work in both a laboratory and a studio, judged by two sets of peers who rarely talk to each other. This list, roughly in date order, includes painters who invented...
People
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Women Writers Who Changed What the Novel Could Do
Women Writers Who Changed What the Novel Could Do
by book_guy  • 
In common: Toni Morrison
A reading map for discovering how a novel can change the way time, thought and a speaking voice reach us. Each writer has a suggested book that makes her particular experiment tangible, from...
Books
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Photographers Who Developed a Personal Visual Language
Photographers Who Developed a Personal Visual Language
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Vivian Maier
Some photographers are recognisable from any frame of their work: the way they use light, where they stand, what they wait for and what they leave out. This list follows those photographers across...
Arts & Design
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Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
by book_guy  • 
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A creative life is made from repeated decisions about materials, time, other people and the money needed to continue. These novels pay attention to that work across ceramics, textiles...
Books
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Celebrities Whose Early Jobs Shaped Their Later Work
Celebrities Whose Early Jobs Shaped Their Later Work
by list_wrangler  • 
On a similar theme
This is not a list of surprising day jobs. Every entry here is a documented job held before fame that fed directly into the work that made the person famous, from wartime intelligence behind the...
Celebrities
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People Whose Ideas Became More Influential After Their Death
People Whose Ideas Became More Influential After Their Death
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Franz Kafka
An idea can outgrow its first audience through later editions, new evidence, translations or institutions. These are my choices for lives whose intellectual or creative influence expanded after...
People
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Scientists Who Changed Their Minds in Public
Scientists Who Changed Their Minds in Public
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Albert Einstein
Science is meant to change its mind when the evidence does, but it is rarer to see one person say so openly. This list collects scientists on record revising a view they had argued for, in print...
People
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People Who Helped Others Achieve Their Best Work
People Who Helped Others Achieve Their Best Work
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Toni Morrison
A biography often follows the name on the cover, the stage or the discovery. These profiles follow another thread: the editor who asks a better question, the teacher who develops a skill, the...
People
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Scientists Whose Notebooks Reveal How Discovery Happens
Scientists Whose Notebooks Reveal How Discovery Happens
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Albert Einstein
Finished papers make discovery look tidy. Notebooks show the guesses, dead ends, crossings-out and conversations behind it. This list gathers scientists whose surviving notebooks, diaries and...
People
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People Whose Correspondence Reveals an Extraordinary Mind
People Whose Correspondence Reveals an Extraordinary Mind
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Albert Einstein
For a biography reader, letters can reveal how an idea is tested, explained or turned into a piece of work. These are my choices across science, literature, art, philosophy and public life, using...
People
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Think Tanks Across the Political Spectrum
Think Tanks Across the Political Spectrum
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
A reference for anyone handed a policy report and wondering who stands behind it. Each entry gives the organisation's general orientation, how it is paid for and an idea, report or contribution it...
Politics
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Jobs Dogs Do, From Guide Dogs to Truffle Hunters
Jobs Dogs Do, From Guide Dogs to Truffle Hunters
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
A guide dog stopping at a kerb, a beagle sitting beside a suitcase at the airport, a muzzled dog locating kiwi in the bush: dogs hold a surprising range of real jobs. This list walks through the...
Animals
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Water-Loving Dog Breeds for Lake and Coast Lovers
Water-Loving Dog Breeds for Lake and Coast Lovers
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
For anyone living near a lake, river or the sea who wants a dog that would rather be wet than dry. Every breed here was developed for real work in water, from herding fish into nets and hauling...
Animals
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People Who Pursued Several Serious Careers at Once
People Who Pursued Several Serious Careers at Once
by curious_compiler  • 
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Most people who change careers do so one after another. These people ran two or more demanding careers side by side: a concert pianist who led a government, a doctor who toured as an organist to...
People
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People Who Changed Professions and Became Known for the Second
People Who Changed Professions and Became Known for the Second
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
A working life can have several chapters, and the break between them is often less tidy than a success story suggests. These people held substantial jobs before building a serious second vocation...
People
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People Who Made Collaboration Their Greatest Strength
People Who Made Collaboration Their Greatest Strength
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Biographies love a lone genius, but many of the most influential careers were built in pairs and small teams. This list follows scientists, inventors, designers, writers, composers, filmmakers...
People
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People Who Did Landmark Work After Fifty
People Who Did Landmark Work After Fifty
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
A career does not have to follow one early rise. These people published influential books, made distinctive artworks, developed important tools or built new programmes after their fiftieth...
People
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Artists Who Reinvented Their Style More Than Once
Artists Who Reinvented Their Style More Than Once
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Some artists find a style and refine it for life. Others tear it up and start again, sometimes several times, to the dismay of dealers and critics. This list, in order of birth, follows painters...
Arts & Design
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People Who Built Wealth from Entertainment Rights
People Who Built Wealth from Entertainment Rights
by curious_compiler  • 
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A hit can keep earning long after its first release. These 20 creators and performers show how publishing, recordings, fictional characters and theatre rights became valuable assets. The selection...
Business
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