QI The Book of the Dead

2003)
    Katie Hickman, Courtesans (HarperCollins, 2003)
    Cora Pearl, The Memoirs of Cora Pearl: The Erotic Reminiscences of a Flamboyant Nineteenth-century Courtesan , ed. William Blatchford (Granada, 1983)
     
    H.G. Wells
    H.G. Wells, H.G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography , new edn (Faber, 2008)
    Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, H.G. Wells: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1973)
     
    Colette
    Judith Thurman, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Bloomsbury, 1999)
    Colette, Cheri , new edn (Vintage, 2001)
     
    Marie Bonaparte
    Celia Bertin, Marie Bonaparte: A Life (Harcourt, 1982)
     
    Alfred Kinsey
    Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey (Chatto & Windus, 1998)

    Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male , ed. Alfred C. Kinsey (W. B. Saunders, 1948)
    Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female , ed. Alfred C. Kinsey (W. B. Saunders, 1953)
     
    Tallulah Bankhead
    Tallulah Bankhead, My Autobiography , new edn (University Press of Mississippi, 2008)
    David Bret, Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life (Robson, 1996)
    5 MAN CANNOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE
     
    Helena, Comtesse de Noailles
    Catherine Caufield, The Emperor of the United States of America & Other Magnificent British Eccentrics (Routledge, 1981)
     
    George Fordyce
    John Cordy Jeaffreson, A Book about Doctors (London, 1860)
    Clarke, The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, who Have Flourished in Great Britain (London, 1832)
     
    Elizabeth, Empress of Austria
    Joan Haslip, The Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965)
     
    John Harvey Kellogg
    T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville: A Comedy of the Heart & Other Organs (Little, Brown, 1981)
     
    Henry Ford
    Steven Watts, The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford & the American Century (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)
    Henry Ford, My Life &Work (NuVision Publications, 2007)
     
    Howard Hughes
    Howard Hughes, The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters , ed. Richard Hack, (New Millenium Press, 2001)
    Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske, Howard Hughes: The Untold Story (Little, Brown, 1996)

    6 GRIN AND BEAR IT
     
    Pieter Stuyvesant
    Russell Shorto, The Island at the Centre of the World (Doubleday, 2004)
     
    General Antonio de Santa Anna
    Will Fowler, Santa Anna of Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
     
    Daniel Lambert
    Jan Bondeson, The Pig-faced Lady of Manchester Square & Other Medical Marvels (Tempus, 2004)
     
    Florence Nightingale
    Mark Bostridge, Florence Nightingale: The Woman & her Legend (Viking, 2008)
     
    Hugh Small, Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel (Constable & Robinson, 1999)
    Florence Nightingale, Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2005)
     
    Fernando Pessoa
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet tr. Richard Zenith (Penguin, 2002)
    Fernando Pessoa, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa tr. Richard Zenith (Grove Atlantic, 2002)
     
    Dawn Langley Simmons
    Dawn Langley Simmons, Dawn: A Charleston Legend (Wyrick & Co., 1995)
    7 THE MONKEY-KEEPERS
     
    Oliver Cromwell
    H.E. Marshall, Through Great Britain & Ireland with Cromwell (London, 1912)
    Antonia Fraser, Cromwell, Our Chief of Men (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)
     
    Catherine de’Medici
    Leonie Frieda, Catherine de’ Medici (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)
     
    Sir Jeffrey Hudson
    Nick Page, Lord Minimus: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Smallest Man (St Martin’s Press, 2002)
     

    Rembrandt van Rijn
    Gary Schwartz, Rembrandt’s Universe (Thames & Hudson, 2006)
    Charles Fowkes The Life of Rembrandt (London, 1978)
     
    Frida Kahlo
    Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahlo, 1907‒1954: Pain and Passion (Taschen, 2000)
    Hayden Herrera, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Harper & Row, 1983)
     
    Madame Mao
    Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story (Jonathan Cape, 2005)
    Ross Terrill, Madame Mao: The White-boned Demon (Stanford UP, 1999)
     
    Francis Buckland
    G.H.O. Burgess, Curious Ark: The Curious World of Frank Buckland (New York, 1967)
    Frank Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History (London, 1859)
    Frank Buckland, Curious Men (MacSweeneys, 2008)
     
    King Alexander I of Greece
    John Van der Kiste, Kings of the Hellenes: The Greek Kings , 1863‒1974 (Alan Sutton, 1994)
    8 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
     
    Titus Oates
    John Kenyon, The Popish Plot (Heinemann, 1972)
     
    Count Cagliostro
    Iain McCalman, The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro (Random House,