The Eminent Lives series is HarperCollins' series of "brief biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures."^[1] The general editor of the series was James Atlas.

The series includes books by:

• Robert Gottlieb on George Balanchine
• Paul Johnson on George Washington
• Christopher Hitchens on Thomas Jefferson
• Michael Korda on Ulysses S. Grant
• Francine Prose on Caravaggio
• Edmund Morris on Ludwig van Beethoven
• Joseph Epstein on Alexis de Tocqueville
• Peter Kramer on Sigmund Freud
• Karen Armstrong on Muhammad
• Bill Bryson on William Shakespeare
• Matt Ridley on Francis Crick
• Ross King on Niccolò Machiavelli.

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