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Kurt Vonnegut: From a Meat Locker in Dresden to Slaughterhouse-Five
Jun 15, 202619 min
George Gershwin: The Genius Who Bridged Jazz and Classical Music and Died of a Brain Tumor at Thirty-Eight
Jun 15, 202621 min
Francisco Goya: The Court Painter Who Covered His Walls With Monsters
Jun 15, 202621 min
Greta Thunberg: From Lonely School Striker to the Most Polarizing Climate Activist on Earth
Jun 15, 202615 min
Albert Schweitzer: The Nobel Laureate Who Built a Hospital in a Chicken Hut
Jun 15, 202619 min
Anton Bruckner: The Sonic Cathedrals and Troubled Legacy of Classical Music's Most Insecure Genius
Jun 15, 202621 min
Caravaggio: The Murderer Who Painted the Most Divine Images in Western Art
Jun 15, 202620 min
Claude Debussy: The Serene Impressionist Whose Private Life Was Anything But Peaceful
Jun 15, 202621 min
El Greco: The Painter Whose Three-Hundred-Year Rebellion Against Convention Finally Won
Jun 15, 202623 min
Marcel Proust: The Social Climber Who Locked Himself in a Cork-Lined Room and Wrote a Masterpiece
Jun 15, 202620 min
Thomas Hardy: The Two Burials of a Novelist Whose Heart Ended Up in a Biscuit Tin
Jun 15, 202624 min
Victor Hugo: The Radical Outlaw Life and Secret Codes of France's Greatest Literary Giant
Jun 15, 202619 min
Walt Whitman: The Original American Hustler Who Wrote His Own Rave Reviews
Jun 15, 202622 min
Carl Friedrich Gauss: The Prince of Mathematics Who Sat on His Greatest Discoveries
Jun 15, 202622 min
Nikolai Gogol: The Man Who Burned Dead Souls and Starved Himself to Death
Jun 15, 202625 min
Miguel de Cervantes: The One-Armed Soldier Who Created the Modern Novel With Don Quixote
Jun 15, 202621 min
Vaslav Nijinsky: The Rebel Dancer Who Redefined Male Ballet and Lost His Mind
Jun 15, 202623 min
Emily Bronte: The Recluse of Haworth Who Wrote Wuthering Heights and Died at Thirty
Jun 15, 202623 min
Herman Melville: The Resurrection of America's Most Neglected Masterpiece
Jun 15, 202617 min
Vladimir Nabokov: The Butterfly Scientist Who Wrote Lolita and Scandalized the World
Jun 15, 202620 min
Alan Turing: The Codebreaker Who Invented the Computer and Was Destroyed by the Country He Saved
Jun 15, 202621 min
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Forgotten Genius Who Invented Binary Code Three Centuries Too Early
Jun 15, 202626 min
Pierre de Fermat: The Lawyer Who Revolutionized Mathematics in His Spare Time
Jun 15, 202620 min
Alexander II: The Tsar Who Freed Twenty Million Serfs and Was Blown Apart by the People He Liberated
Jun 15, 202620 min
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Salem Bloodline That Haunted America's Greatest Puritan Novelist
Jun 15, 202623 min
Petrarch: The Poet Who Invented Humanism and Launched the Renaissance
Jun 15, 202620 min
Alexander Pushkin: Russia's Greatest Poet Killed in a Duel Over His Wife's Honor
Jun 15, 202620 min
Emile Zola: The Novelist Whose Murder Was Disguised as an Accident
Jun 15, 202622 min
Rainer Maria Rilke: The Brutal Childhood and Tormented Genius Behind the Letters to a Young Poet
Jun 15, 202621 min
Gustave Flaubert: The Perfectionist Hermit Who Invented the Modern Novel
Jun 15, 202618 min
Mikhail Bulgakov: How the Author of The Master and Margarita Survived Stalin's Russia
Jun 15, 202620 min
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Divided Life of Germany's Greatest Writer
Jun 15, 202625 min
Leonhard Euler: The Mathematician Who Mapped the Universe After Going Completely Blind
Jun 15, 202621 min
Guy de Maupassant: The Master Storyteller Whose Success Ended in Syphilitic Madness
Jun 15, 202621 min
Henri Poincare: The Four-Hour Genius Who Saw Mathematics in Flashes of Intuition
Jun 15, 202623 min
Hermann Hesse: How a Nervous Breakdown Made Him the Hippie Generation's Favorite Novelist
Jun 15, 202621 min
George Eliot: How a Social Pariah Living in Sin Wrote the Greatest English Novel
Jun 15, 202619 min
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: How One Prisoner's Pen Shook the Soviet Empire
Jun 15, 202621 min
Giovanni Boccaccio: How the Black Death Inspired the Book That Rewired European Literature
Jun 15, 202619 min
Coco Chanel: Nazi Spy, Fashion Revolutionary, and the Perfume That Bought Her Silence
Jun 15, 202622 min
Dante Alighieri: The Exile Who Wrote the Divine Comedy and Whose Bones Were Hidden for Centuries
Jun 15, 202624 min
David Hilbert: The Mathematician Who Declared War on the Unknowable
Jun 15, 202620 min
Friedrich Schiller: The Fugitive Playwright Whose Tomb Turned Out to Be Empty
Jun 15, 202621 min
Georg Cantor: The Mathematician Who Proved That Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others
Jun 15, 202621 min
Anna Pavlova: The Dying Swan Who Revolutionized the Modern Pointe Shoe
Jun 15, 202623 min
Honore de Balzac: How Crushing Debt and Obsessive Work Ethic Created Literary Realism
Jun 15, 202624 min
Bernhard Riemann: The Shy Mathematician Whose Curved Geometry Made Einstein Possible
Jun 15, 202620 min
Blaise Pascal: The Child Prodigy Torn Between Mathematical Genius and Religious Terror
Jun 15, 202623 min
Charlotte Bronte: The Secret Rage and Forbidden Love Behind Jane Eyre
Jun 15, 202620 min
Ovid: Why Rome's Greatest Love Poet Was Banished to the Edge of the Empire by Augustus
Jun 15, 202624 min