Catherine Reef, Author . Clarion $19 (160p) ISBN 978-0-618-01762-1
Reef's (John Steinbeck; Walt Whitman) piercing biography deftly interprets the life of the father of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential men of the 20th century. From the first page, the author conjures the doctor's office and...
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Catherine Reef, Author . Clarion $7.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-618-24616-8
"Even readers already familiar with Whitman (1819-1892) will find much to ponder in this forthright biography enhanced with 70 photographs and engravings," wrote PW. "His poems are thoughtfully quoted, interpreted and placed in the...
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Catherine Reef, Author Clarion Books $17.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-395-71278-8
Fresh from her YA biography of Walt Whitman, Reef again subtly traces the links between the life and the work of a major American writer. This story begins in the middle, as John Steinbeck (1902-1968) travels among the migrant laborers of the Great...
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Catherine Reef. Clarion, $18.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-547-57966-5
Reef (Jane Austen: A Life Revealed) offers a detail-rich look at the lives of the Brontë sisters, whose works shocked, entertained, and provoked the minds of their Victorian audiences. This chronological account is three biographies rolled into one,
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Catherine Reef. Clarion, $18.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-544-53580-0
Best recognized for her work during the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) receives full credit for her most far-reaching accomplishment in this lucid, handsomely designed volume: transforming nursing from an unsavory profession for women
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Catherine Reef, Author, Wendell Minor, Illustrator Clarion Books $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-395-68705-5
Even readers already familiar with Walt Whitman (1819-1892) will find much to ponder in this forthright biography. Reef (Henry David Thoreau) traces the poet's life, from his unsettled childhood in New York's Long Island and Brooklyn to his...
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Catherine Reef, Author, Catherine Reef, Illustrator Clarion Books $17 (144p) ISBN 978-0-618-14785-4
Catherine Reef describes the founding of Liberia in 1822 by members of the American Colonization Society, who wished to set up a colony for free blacks and former captives, in This Is Our Dark Country: The American Settlers of Liberia. Period ...
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Catherine Reef. Clarion, $18.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-328-55750-6
Much of what is known about this legendary French actress (1844–1923) is recognized as colorful hearsay—which was fomented by Bernhardt herself. In this concise, well-researched biography, Reef faithfully separates the documented from the...
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