Subject: Biography Last modified: March 1, 2004
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Avrich, Paul
Bakunin and Nechaev
Freedom 32pp ISBN: 0-900384-09-3 $2.70
A short essay on the political relationship between Nechaev and Bakunin.

James, Bob
Chummy Flemming: A Brief Biography
Monty Miller 20pp ISBN: BJ-04 $1.60
A biography of a leading Melbourne Anarchist in the late 19th and first half of the 20th Century. It also provides some insight to living and working conditions and political action during his lifetime.

James, Bob
J.A. Andrews: A Brief Biography
Monty Miller 16pp ISBN: BJ-05 $1.60
This is the second of a series of pamphlets written and published for the Australian Anarchist Centenary Celebrations. It provides an overview of the life of possibly the most important member of the Melbourne Anarchist Club.

James, Bob
W.R. Winspear - Anarchist or Socialist?
Bob James 17pp ISBN: BJ-02 $1.10
A brief biography of a late 19th Century Australian radical, and an attempt to decide where to place him in relation to Australian Anarchist history. He was mainly associated with the Labor Movement in Newcastle.

Kropotkin, Peter
Memoirs Of A Revolutionist Vol #1
Black Rose 504pp ISBN: 0-921689-18-7 $33.70
A writer in the Russian tradition, Kropotkin's autobiography stands as a non-fictional counterpart to the works of Tolstoy and Turgenev. He details his work as a scientist and geographer, his renounciation of his royal title and conversion to anarchism, and his imprisonment and escapes from a Russian and his second imprisonment in France. Powerfully told.

Macy, Joanna R.
Widening Circles: A Memoir
NSP 296pp ISBN: 0-86571-420-7 $22.95
An absorbing memoir from a well known eco-philosopher, Buddhist and Deep Ecology activist/teacher.

Mazel, Ella
Ahead of Her Time: Mary Wollstonecraft
Bernel Books 117pp ISBN: 0-9641887-3-2 $11.80
A sampler of the life and thought of Mary Wollstonecraft - a pioneer advocate of women's rights with the publication of 'Vinication of the Rights of Woman' in 1792.

Meltzer, Albert
I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels: Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation
AK Press 386pp ISBN: 1-873176-93-7 $29.90
Autobiography of the late, but very great anarchist revolutionary. From fighting Blackshirts in the 30s, to mutiny as a soldier at the end of the Second World War, through the Spanish anarchist resistance to Franco, the Angry Brigade, and beyond, Albert was there. This is his story.

Morris, Brian
Bakunin: The Philosophy Of Freedom
Black Rose 159pp ISBN: 1-895431-66-2 $20.20
Brian Morris from the Preface: "A readable guide to the life and work of Michael Bakunin - a major political figure and the real inspiration of libertarian socialism and the anarchist movement." Includes an extensive biographical sketch, and a concise overview of his philosophy - "collectivist anarchism", and his critique of Marxism.

Newell, Peter E
Zapata of Mexico
Black Rose 176pp ISBN: 1-55164-072-4 $25.50
A concise and readable biography of Emiliano Zapata. His struggles for the common people in Mexico live on amoung the present day Zapatistas.

Post, Hans
One Man in His Time
Otford Press 406pp ISBN: 1-876928-35-2 $30.00
Hans Post's autobiography is a tour de force. It minutely details one man's journey from an acceptance of fascist ideology in 1930's Germany to pacifism, anti-militarism and anarchism. There is much wisdom in this tale and many home truths on political ideologies and the importance of community education and thinking for oneself.

Reitman, Dr. Ben
Sister of the Road: the Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha
AK Press 205pp ISBN: 1 902593 03 0 $22.50
Another raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. It's a window into a wildly under-appreciated dropout culture that gets left out of the stultifying fairytales that pass for history books--a much more rowdy and messily interesting tradition than the guardians of propriety, steeped in those other great American traditions of puritanism and hypocrisy, let on.Hobo jungles, bughouses, whorehouses, Chicago's Main Stem, IWW meeting halls, skid rows and open freight cars--these were the haunts of the free thinking and free loving Bertha Thompson. This vivid autobiography recounts one hell of a rugged woman's hard-living depression-era saga of misadventures with pimps, hopheads, murderers, yeggs, wobblies and anarchists.

Richards, Vernon
Malatesta - Life and Ideas
Freedom 312pp ISBN: 0-900384-15-8 $17.60
Comprehensive compendium of writings and ideas of Malatesta - an energetic proponent of the anarchist idea. Includes Notes for a Biography and appendices.

Richards, Vernon, Berneri, Marie Louise, Ward, Colin and Walter, Nicolas
George Orwell at Home (and Among The Anarchists)
Freedom 76pp ISBN: 0-900384-87-5 $24.40
George Orwell was one of the most important British socialist writers of the twentieth century. He produced novels, books of reportage, booklets, essays, articles, broadcasts and reviews, but above all he is remembered for the satires Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, which have been read by millions of people all over the world. He fought in the Spanish Civil War and sympathised with the anarcho-syndicalists in the Spanish Revolution, and had friendships with several prominent British anarchists until his death in 1950. Here for the first time is a full collection of photographs taken by Vernon Richards and his companion Marie Louise Berneri in 1946, showing George Orwell at home. Also included is the obituary which Vernon Richards wrote in 1950, a series of articles on anarchism which Colin Ward wrote in 1955, and a long account by Nicolas Walter of Orwell's relations with anarchism and the anarchists taking into account the material published in The Complete Works of George Orwell in 1998.

Rimbaud, Penny
Shibboleth: My Revolting Life
AK Press 344pp ISBN: 1-873176-40-6 $16.40
The book tells many stories. The life and death of Wally Hope. The story of the anarchist Punk Band Crass from start to go. The life of Penny Rimbaud meandering through communalism, hippiedom, punk music and anarchist activism. An introspective and powerful autobiography.

Tellez, Antonio
Sabate: Guerilla Extraordinary
AK Press 208pp ISBN: 1-902593-10-3 $15.00
An in-depth biography of Francisco Sabate a "guerilla extraordinary" and his brothers, covering his involvement in the Spanish Civil War, continuing resistance to Franci's regime, in exile in France and through to his death.

Thomas, Edith
Louise Michel
Black Rose 444pp ISBN: 0-919619-07-4 $18.00
A thorough biography of this revolutionary who participated in the Paris Commune of 1871and fought on the Barricades. She was deported to a penal colony in New Caledonia, later to return to France to continue agitating as an anarchist for social revolution. An inspiring account of a woman dedicated to a life of hope, solidarity and justice.

Various
Durruti 1896-1936
Active 196pp ISBN: 84-86864-22-4 $17.40
A multi-lingual photo album of the Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti. Produced to celebrate the centenary of his birth and the sixtieth anniversary of his death in beseiged Madrid. Nearly 200 photos tell his story and the story of the social revolution in Spain. Hardback only.

Woodcock, George
Aphra Behn: The English Sappho
Black Rose 248pp ISBN: 0-921689-40-3 $18.70
A biography of the intriguing life of Aphra Behn; adventuress, spy, playwright, poet and novelist; pioneer of women's emancipation, anticipator of abolitionism, advocate of free marriage. Her contribution to history, the development of the novel, and in particular English literature from the restoration period (17th Century)has been grossly neglected. George Woodcock asserts that Aphra Behn was the first writer to publish a novel against slavery, Oroonoko, in 1688, and one of the first female authors to survive wholly from the income earned from writing.

Woodcock, George
Pierre Joseph Proudhon: A Biography (2nd ed)
Black Rose 295pp ISBN: 0-921689-08-X $20.20
Sometimes referred to as the 'father' of anarchism, Proudhon's influence on the revolutionary tradition, particularly in France, should not be underestimated.

Woodcock, George
William Godwin: A Biographical Study
Black Rose 266pp ISBN: 0-921689-48-9 $20.20
An in depth study of this neglected English social thinker, whose Enquiry Concerning Political Justice when published in 1793 established him as one of the leading writers of his time. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice was a complete and radical attack on the existing social order, and the philisophical foundations of government.