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The Penguin Lives series by Larry McMurtry consists of 32 books, published between 1960 and 2011. The series begins with Abraham Lincoln (By: Thomas Keneally).
1 Abraham Lincoln (By: Thomas Keneally) (1960)
Mao Zedong: A Life (By: Jonathan D. Spence) (1999)
3 Mozart: A Life (By: Peter Gay) (1999)
4 Marcel Proust (By: Edmund White) (1999)
6 Saint Augustine (By: Garry Wills) (1999)
7 James Joyce (By: Edna O'Brien) (1999)
8 Rosa Parks (By: Douglas Brinkley) (2000)
9 Virginia Woolf (By: Nigel Nicolson) (2000)
10 Woodrow Wilson (By: Louis Auchincloss) (2000)
11 Herman Melville (By: Elizabeth Hardwick) (2000)
12 Leonardo da Vinci: A Life (By: Sherwin B. Nuland) (2000)
13 Dante (By: R.W.B. Lewis) (2001)
14 Jane Austen (By: Carol Shields) (2001)
15 Buddha (By: Karen Armstrong) (2001)
16 Simone Weil (By: Francine du Plessix Gray) (2001)
17 Andy Warhol: A Biography (By: Wayne Koestenbaum) (2001)
18 Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (By: Marshall Frady) (2001)
19 Joseph Smith (By: Robert V. Remini) (2002)
20 Winston Churchill: A Life (By: John Keegan) (2002)
21 Pope John XXIII (By: Thomas Cahill) (2002)
22 Charles Dickens (By: Jane Smiley) (2002)
23 Elvis Presley (By: Bobbie Ann Mason) (2002)
24 Saint Therese of Lisieux (By: Kathryn Harrison) (2003)
25 Robert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.) (2003)
26 Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (By: Ada Louise Huxtable) (2004)
27 George Herbert Walker Bush (By: Tom Wicker) (2004)
28 Napoleon (By: Paul Johnson) (2006)
29 Julia Child (By: Laura Shapiro) (2007)
30 Joan of Arc (By: Mary Gordon) (2008)
31 Martin Luther (By: Martin E. Marty) (2008)
32 Branch Rickey: A Life (By: Jimmy Breslin) (2011)