Famous People

by Kenneth McLeish, Valerie McLeish

Profiles historical and contemporary world leaders, athletes, artists, musicians, explorers, scientists, and other famous people

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

John Kenneth Tyrrell McLeish, known as Kenneth McLeish was a British writer, playwright and translator. McLeish, "the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain", translated all the surviving classical Greek plays, most plays by Henrik Ibsen and Georges Feydeau, and individual plays by Plautus, Molière, Alfred Jarry, August Strindberg, Ödön von Horváth and Eugène Labiche.

Reviews

[Victor Orozco · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won this book as a prize at a raffle when I was in the 5th grade. Nice little pictures and some detail, a good book for children to be interested in the people who shape history. B.