QI The Book of the Dead

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    Philippa Faulks and Robert D.L. Cooper, The Masonic Magician: The Life and Death of Count Cagliostro and his Egyptian Rite (Watkins, 2008)
     
    George Psalmanazar
    Michael Keevak, T he Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar’s Eighteenth-century Formosan Hoax (Wayne State UP, 2001)
     

    Princess Caraboo
    Jennifer Raison and Michael Goldie, Caraboo: The Servant Girl Princess (Windrush, 1994)
     
    Louis de Rougemont
    Louis de Rougemont, The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (Dodo Press, 2009)
     
    James Barry
    Rachel Holmes, Scanty Particulars: The Life of Dr James Barry (Viking, 2002)
     
    Ignácz Trebitsch Lincoln
    Bernard Wasserstein, The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (Yale, 1988)
     
    Tuesday Lobsang Rampa
    T. Lobsang Rampa, The Third Eye (Random House, 1956)
    T. Lobsang Rampa, Living with the Lama (Random House, 1964)
    Sheelagh Rouse, Twenty-Five Years with T. Lobsang Rampa (Lulu.com, 2006)
     
    Archie Belaney
    Lovat Dickson, Wilderness Man: the Amazing True Story of Grey Owl , new edn (Pocket Books, 1999)
    Armand G. Ruffo, Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney (Coteau Books, 2003)
    9 ONCE YOU’RE DEAD, YOU’RE MADE FOR LIFE
     
    Emma Hamilton
    Kate Williams, England’s Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton (Hutchinson, 2006)
    Flora Fraser, Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986)
     
    John Dee
    Benjamin Woolley, The Queen’s Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Doctor Dee (HarperCollins, 2001)
    Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge, 2006)

    John Dee, The Diaries of John Dee , ed. Edward Fenton (Day Books, 1998)
     
    Jack Parsons
    John Carter, Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons (Feral House, 2005)
    George Pendle, Strange Angel (Harcourt, 2005)
     
    Nikola Tesla
    Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla (Citadel Press, 1998)
    Robert Lomas, The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century (Headline, 2000)
     
    Karl Marx
    Francis Wheen, Karl Marx (Fourth Estate, 1999)
    Karl Marx, Selected Writings , ed. David McLellan (Oxford, 2000)
    10 IS THAT ALL THERE IS ?
     
    St Cuthbert
    The Venerable Bede, The Age of Bede , ed. D. H. Farmer (Penguin, 2004)
     
    Ann Lee
    Richard Francis, Ann the Word: The Story of Ann Lee (Arcade, 2000)
     
    William Blake
    Peter Ackroyd, Blake (Sinclair Stevenson, 1995)
    Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried (Century, 2006)
    William Blake, The Poetry & Prose of William Blake , ed. Geoffrey Keynes (London, 1927)
     
    Jeremy Bentham
    Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism & Other Essays , ed. Alan Ryan (Penguin, 2004)
    Leslie Stephen, The Utilitarians (London, 1900)
     
    Buckminster Fuller
    R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (Lars Müller Publishers, 2008)
    J. Baldwin, Bucky Works: Buckminster Fuller’s Ideas for Today (J. Wiley & Sons, 1996)

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    No QI book could be written without the full collaboration of our crack squad of research elves. For this book, three of them went well beyond the usual call of elven duty. Tim Ecott and James Harkin, as well as providing meticulous research notes on a host of lives, also wrote early drafts of some of the chapters; while Andy Murray, like a demented literary bodysnatcher, produced a constant stream of the freshly researched Dead for our consideration.
    Piers Fletcher, Molly Oldfield, Justin Pollard, Mat Coward, Dan Schreiber, Arron Ferster and Will Bowen also added the odd corpse to the pile, as did Xander Cansell and Tibor Fischer. Special thanks must go to Catriona Luke, who raided the obituary cupboards at several large newspapers.
    Thomas Edison once wrote, ‘Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.’ The team at Faber are the most elegant hustlers in the business, and the most patient. Particular thanks must go to Stephen Page, Julian Loose, Dave Watkins and Judith Gates, and their team of freelances, Paula Turner, Eleanor Rees and Patricia Hymans. Beyond them, Hannah Griffiths, Will Atkinson, Miles Poynton, John Grindrod, Becky Fincham, Jason Cooper, Lisa Baker, Lizzie Jones, Archana Rao and Henry Volans all remind us what an honour is to be published by Faber, particularly in this, its eightieth year. The fact that the book’s jacket looks as good as it does is down to three people: