QI The Book of the Dead

START IN LIFE
     
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Charles Nicholl, Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind (Allen Lane, 2004)
    Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks (Profile, 2005)
     
    Sigmund Freud
    Peter Gay, Freud: A Life in Our Time (W.W. Norton & Co., 1998)
    Sigmund Freud, The Penguin Freud Reader , ed. Adam Phillips (Penguin, 2006)
     
    Isaac Newton
    James Gleick, Isaac Newton (Fourth Estate, 2003)
    Thomas Levenson, Newton and the Counterfeiter (Faber, 2009)
     
    O liver Heaviside
    Basil Mahon, Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity
(Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2009)
    Paul J. Nahin, Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age, new edn (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002)
     
    Lord Byron
    Fiona McCarthy, Byron: Life & Legend (Faber, 2003)
    Ashley Hay, The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron (Aurum, 2001)
     
    Ada Lovelace
    Benjamin Woolley, The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter (Macmillan, 1999)

    Betty O’Toole, Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron’s Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer (Pickering & Chatto, 1992)
     
    Hans Christian Andersen
    Jens Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen (Duckworth, 2005)
    Jackie Wullschlager, Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller (Allen Lane, 2000)
     
    Salvador Dalí
    Ian Gibson, The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí (Faber, 1997)
    Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí , tr. Haakon Chevalier (Dover Publications, 2009) 
    2 HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
     
    Epicurus
    Epicurus, The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia , tr. Brad Inwood and Lloyd P. Gerson (Hackett Publishing Co., 1994)
     
    Benjamin Franklin
    H.W. Brands, The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000)
    Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography & Other Writings , ed. Ormond Seavey (Oxford, 1993)
     
    Edward Jenner
    John Baron, The Life of Edward Jenner (London, 1827)
    Richard B. Fisher, Edward Jenner 1749‒1823 (André Deutsch, 1991)
     
    Mary Seacole
    Jane Robinson, Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea (Constable & Robinson, 2005)
    Mary Seacole, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands , new edn (Penguin, 2005)
     
    Moll Cutpurse
    Janet Todd and Elizabeth Spearing, Counterfeit Ladies (New York University Press, 1994)
    R. Sanders, Newgate Calendar or Malefactor’s Bloody Register (London, 1760)
     

    Richard Feynman
    James Gleick, Genius: Richard Feynman & Modern Physics (Little, Brown, 1992)
    Richard Feynman, Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character (W.W. Norton & Co., 1985)
    Richard Leighton, Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman’s Last Journey (W.W. Norton & Co., 1991)
    3 DRIVEN
     
    Robert Peary
    Jean Malaurie, Ultima Thule: Explorers and Natives in the Polar North (W.W. Norton & Co., 2003)
    Fergus Fleming, Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole (Granta, 2001)
    Josephine Peary, My Arctic Journal: A Year among Ice-fields and Eskimos , new edn (Cooper Square Press, 2002)
     
    Mary Kingsley
    Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa , new edn (National Geographic, 2002)
    Katherine Frank, Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley (Houghton Mifflin, 1986)
    Dea Birkett, Mary Kingsley: Imperial Adventuress (Palgrave Macmillan, 1992)
     
    Alexander von Humboldt
    Alexander von Humboldt, Personal Narrative: Of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent , new edn (abridged), tr. Jason Wilson (Penguin, 2006)
    N.A. Rupke, Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography (Chicago UP, 2008)
     
    Francis Galton
    Martin Brookes, Extreme Measures: The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton (Bloomsbury, 2004)
    Francis Galton, Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences , new edn (Prometheus, 2005)
     
    William Morris
    Fiona McCarthy, William Morris (Faber, 1994)

    William Morris, News from Nowhere & Other Writings , new edn (Penguin, 2004)
    4 LET’S DO IT
     
    Giacomo Casanova
    Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life , new edn, tr. Stephanie Sartarelli and Sophia Hawkes (Penguin, 2002)
    Ian Kelly, Casanova: Actor, Spy, Lover, Priest (Hodder, 2008)
     
    Catherine the Great
    Simon Dixon, Catherine the Great (Profile Books, 2009)
    Virginia Rounding, Catherine the Great: Love, Sex and Power (Hutchinson, 2006)
     
    Cora Pearl
    Virginia Rounding, Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans (Bloomsbury,