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Ernest Samuels (May 19, 1903 — February 12, 1996) was an American biographer and lawyer.

Born in Chicago, he received his J.D. in 1926, but switched to literature in 1930. Nevertheless he did legal work as well for much of the 1930s. He might be best known for his biography of Henry Adams in three volumes. For this work he received the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography His two-volume biography Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur (Cambridge, MA 1979); Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend (Cambridge, MA 1987) is considered the most well-researched and important study of its subject.

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Total Books: 9
Henry Adams
1995 - Henry Adams (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780674387362
ISBN-10: 0674387368
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Henry Adams
1989 - Henry Adams (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780674387355
ISBN-10: 067438735X
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Bernard Berenson The Making of a Legend
1987 - Bernard Berenson the Making of a Legend (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780674067790
ISBN-10: 0674067797
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Bernard Berenson  The Making of a Connoisseur
1981 - Bernard Berenson the Making of a Connoisseur (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780674067776
ISBN-10: 0674067770
Genres: Arts & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs
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Bernard Berenson The Making of a Connoisseur
1979 - Bernard Berenson the Making of a Connoisseur (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780674067752
ISBN-10: 0674067754
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Henry Adams the Major Phase
1964 - Henry Adams the Major Phase [Belknap Press] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780674387515
ISBN-10: 0674387511
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
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Henry Adams  The Middle Years
1958 - Henry Adams the Middle Years [Belknap Press] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780674387539
ISBN-10: 0674387538
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
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Samuels Young Henry Adams
Samuels Young Henry Adams (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780674966307
ISBN-10: 0674966309
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