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Lost Splendour
by Felix Youssoupoff (Jonathan Cape 1953)

Rasputin: The Man Behind the Myth
by Maria Rasputin and Patte Barham (Prentice Hall 1977)

44) Grigori Rasputin + Tsar Nicholas II 1915

A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra, Their Own Story
by Andrei Mylunas and Sergei Mironenko (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1996)

The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin
by Alex de Jonge (Collins 1982)

Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars
by Marc Ferro (Viking 1991)

The Man Who Killed Rasputin
by Greg King (Century 1996)

45) Tsar Nicholas II + Harry Houdini 1903

Handcuff Secrets
by Harry Houdini (George Routledge and Sons 1909)

Nicholas and Alexandra
by Robert K. Massie (Victor Gollancz 1968)

The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero
by William Kalush and Larry Sloman (Atria Books 2006)

The Orson Welles Sketchbook
, BBC TV December 2009

46) Harry Houdini + President Theodore Roosevelt 1914

Presidential Anecdotes
by Paul F. Boller, Jr (Oxford University Press 1981)

Obituary of Houdini,
New York Times
November 1st 1926

Clips from a Life
by Denis Norden (Fourth Estate 2008)

47) President Theodore Roosevelt + H.G. Wells 1906

The Time Traveller: The Life of H.G. Wells
by Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1973)

An Experiment in Autobiography, Volume II
by H.G. Wells (Victor Gollancz 1934)

The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells
by Michael Coren (Bloomsbury 1993)

Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris (HarperCollins 2002)

The Future in America: A Search After Realities
by H.G. Wells (Chapman and Hall 1906)

48) H.G. Wells + Josef Stalin 1934

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)

The Penguin Book of Interviews
edited by Christopher Silvester (Viking 1993)

An Experiment in Autobiography, Volume II
by H.G.Wells (Victor Gollancz 1934)

Comrades
by Robert Service (Macmillan 2007)

The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells
by Michael Coren (Bloomsbury 1993)

The Time Traveller: The Life of H.G. Wells
by Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1973)

49) Josef Stalin + Maxim Gorky 1936

Comrades
by Robert Service (Macmillan 2007)

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)

Gorky
by Henri Troyat (Allison and Busby 1991)

50) Maxim Gorky + Leo Tolstoy 1900

Maxim Gorky: Selected Letters
selected, translated and edited by Andrew Barratt and Barry P. Scherr (Clarendon Press 1997)

Literary Portraits by M. Gorky
translated by Ivy Litvinov (Foreign Languages Publishing House 1900)

Gorky
by Henri Troyat (Allison and Busby 1991)

Gorky’s Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences
translated, edited and introduced by Donald Fanger (Yale University Press 2008)

51) Leo Tolstoy + Pyotr Il’ich Tchaikovsky 1876

www.tchaikovsky-research net

Tolstoy
by A.N.Wilson (Hamish Hamilton 1988)

Tolstoy
by Henri Troyat (W.H. Allen 1968)

Tchaikovsky
by Herbert Weinstock (Da Capo Press 1981)

The Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
by Modeste Tchaikovsky (University Press of the Pacific 2004)

Diaries of Tchaikovsky
edited by Wladimir Lakond (W.W. Norton 1945)

Tchaikovsky: A Biography
by Alan Kendall (Bodley Head 1988)

52) Pyotr Il’ich Tchaikovsky + Sergei Rachmaninoff 1888

Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music
by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda (George Allen and Unwin 1965)

www.tchaikovsky-research.net

53) Sergei Rachmaninoff + Harpo Marx 1931

Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music
by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda (George Allen and Unwin 1965)

Harpo Speaks!
by Harpo Marx with Rowland Barber (Geis Associates 1961)

The Real Nick and Norah
by David L. Goodrich (2001

54) Harpo Marx + George Bernard Shaw 1928

Harpo Speaks!
by Harpo Marx with Rowland Barber (Geis Associates 1961)

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
by Selina Hastings (John Murray 2009)

55) George Bernard Shaw + Bertrand Russell 1895

City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London
by Stephen Inwood (Macmillan 2005)

A Bernard Shaw Chronology
by Anthony Matthews Gibbs (Palgrave Macmillan 2001)

Back to Methuselah
by George Bernard Shaw (Constable 1921)

Bernard Shaw
by Michael Holroyd (Chatto and Windus 1997)

Portraits from Memory
by Bertrand Russell (George Allen and Unwin 1958)

The Spirit of Solitude
by Ray Monk (Jonathan Cape 1996)

Analysis of the Mind
by Bertrand Russell (1921)

An Outline of Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell (1927)

On Education
by Bertrand Russell (1926)

56) Bertrand Russell + Sarah Miles 1964

Serves Me Right
by Sarah Miles (Macmillan 1994)

Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness
by Ray Monk (Jonathan Cape 2000)

Face to Face
, BBC TV box set

57) Sarah Miles + Terence Stamp 1961

Serves Me Right
by Sarah Miles (Macmillan 1994)

Double Feature
by Terence Stamp (Bloomsbury 1989)

Olivier
by Terry Coleman (Bloomsbury 2005)

58) Terence Stamp + Edward Heath 1968

Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography
by Philip Ziegler (Harper Press 2010)

Edward Heath: A Biography
by John Campbell (Jonathan Cape 1993)

John Fowles: The Journals, Volume II
edited by Charles Drazin (Jonathan Cape 2006)

Survey of London, Volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster Part 2
, general editor F.H.W. Sheppard (Survey of London 1963)

‘Piccadilly Piccalilli’ by Nicholas Hill,
Tatler
May 1982

The Bachelor of the Albany
by Marmion Savage (Harper and Brothers 1848)

‘Profile of Albany’ by Hywel Williams,
New Statesman
December 1998

The Times
February 2nd 2001

White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
by Dominic Sandbrook (Little, Brown 2006)

59) Edward Heath + Walter Sickert 1934

Edward Heath: A Biography
by John Campbell (Jonathan Cape 1993)

Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography
by Philip Ziegler (Harper Press 2010)

The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State 1922–1997
by Alan Clark (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1998)

Music: A Joy for Life
by Edward Heath (Sidgwick and Jackson 1976)

Walter Sickert: A Life
by Matthew Sturgis (HarperCollins 2005)

Cold Cream
by Ferdinand Mount (Bloomsbury 2008)

Diaries 1942–1943: Ancestral Voices
by James Lees-Milne (Chatto and Windus 1975)

Listening for a Midnight Tram: Memoirs
by John Junor (Chapmans 1990)

The Strange Death of Tory England
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft (Allen Lane 2005)

The Kenneth Williams Diaries
edited by Russell Davies (HarperCollins 1993)

A World of My Own: A Dream Diary
by Graham Greene (Reinhardt Books 1994)

Article by Andrew Graham-Dixon,
Independent
November 24th 1992

60) Walter Sickert + Winston Churchill 1927

Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
by Mary Soames (Houghton Mifflin 1979)

Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills
by Mary Soames (Doubleday 1998)

Walter Sickert: A Life
by Matthew Sturgis (HarperCollins 2005)

Sir Winston Churchill: His Life and His Paintings
by David Coombs and Minnie S. Churchill (Running Press 2004)

In Search of Churchill
by Martin Gilbert (HarperCollins 1994)

61) Winston Churchill + Laurence Olivier 1951

Olivier
by Terry Coleman (Bloomsbury 2005)

Laurence Olivier
by Donald Spoto (HarperCollins 1991)

Confessions of an Actor
by Laurence Olivier (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1982)

62) Laurence Olivier + J.D. Salinger 1951

J.D. Salinger: A Life Raised High
by Kenneth Slawenski (Pomona Books 2010)

In Search of J.D. Salinger: A Biography
by Ian Hamilton (Random House 1988)

Dream Catcher: A Memoir
by Margaret A. Salinger (Washington Square Press 2000)

The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown 1952)

Olivier
by Terry Coleman (Bloomsbury 2005)

The Times
February 13th 2010

Westport Patch
March 20th 2010

Guardian
January 27th 2011

63) J.D. Salinger + Ernest Hemingway 1944

‘Liberating France Hemingway’s Way’ by Michael Taylor,
San Francisco Chronicle
August 2004

‘When Papa Met Salinger’ by Bradley R. McDuffie,
Edmonton Journal
July 2010

In Search of J.D. Salinger: A Biography
by Ian Hamilton (Random House 1988)

Dream Catcher: A Memoir
by Margaret A. Salinger (Washington Square Press 2000)

J.D. Salinger: A Life Raised High
by Kenneth Slawenski (Pomona Books 2010)

The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Hemingway – by Those Who Knew Him
by Denis Brian (Grove Press 1988)

Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story
by Carlos Baker (Charles Scribner’s Sons 1969)

Interview with Lillian Ross,
Observer
December 12th 2010

64) Ernest Hemingway + Ford Madox Ford 1924

A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway (Jonathan Cape 1964)

Ford Madox Ford
by Alan Judd (HarperCollins 1990)

Hemingway
by Frank Lynn (Simon and Schuster 1987)

Hemingway: The Paris Year
s by Michael Reynolds (Blackwell 1989)

Hemingway: A Life without Consequences
by James R. Mellow (Hodder and Stoughton 1993)

65) Ford Madox Ford + Oscar Wilde 1899

Memories and Impressions: A Study in Atmospheres
by Ford Madox Ford (Harper and Brothers 1911)

Return to Yesterday
by Ford Madox Ford (Victor Gollancz 1931)

Oscar Wilde
by Richard Ellmann (Hamish Hamilton 1987)

The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (Fourth Estate 2000)

An Innkeeper’s Diary
by John Fothergill with an introduction by Craig Brown (Folio Society 2000)

66) Oscar Wilde + Marcel Proust 1891

Oscar Wilde
by Richard Ellmann (Hamish Hamilton 1987)

The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (Fourth Estate 2000)

Marcel Proust
by William C. Carter (Yale University Press 2000)

Marcel Proust: A Biography
by George D. Painter (Chatto and Windus 1989)

Marcel Proust: Selected Letters, Volume IV
edited by Philip Kolb (HarperCollins 2000)

67) Marcel Proust + James Joyce 1922

A Night at the Majestic
by Richard Davenport-Hines (Faber and Faber 2006)

James Joyce
by Richard Ellmann (Oxford University Press 1959)

Written Lives
by Javier Marais (Canongate 2006)

68) James Joyce + Harold Nicolson 1931

Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1930–39
edited by Nigel Nicolson (Atheneum 1966)

Harold Nicolson: A Biography
by James Lees-Milne (Chatto and Windus 1980)

James Joyce
by Richard Ellmann (Oxford University Press 1959)

69) Harold Nicolson + Cecil Beaton 1967

Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries
by Cecil Beaton, edited by Hugo Vickers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)

Cecil Beaton
by Hugo Vickers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1985)

Harold Nicolson: A Biography
by James Lees-Milne (Chatto and Windus 1980)

70) Cecil Beaton + Mick Jagger 1967

Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries
by Cecil Beaton, edited by Hugo Vickers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)

Cecil Beaton
by Hugo Vickers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1985)

Life
by Keith Richards (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2010)

The Stones
by Philip Norman (Elm Tree Books 1984)

71) Mick Jagger + Tom Driberg 1967

Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions
by Francis Wheen (Chatto and Windus 1990)

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