The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quickfire journey through truths and trivia that is the most entertaining way to follow in the footsteps of the men and women whose lives have most influenced our own. Many people know that William Shakespeare was a playwright and poet, widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets; that he left behind six different versions of his signature; and that nobody knows what he did between 1585 and 1592. Biographic: Shakespeare presents 50 irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the playwright behind the plays. AUTHOR: Author Viv Croot is a writer and editor specialising in adult non-fiction. She has written or contributed to over 50 books on most subjects from art to zoology, but her first love is literature and Will has always been her hero. Consultant Editor Dr Diana Newall, studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and University College, University of London and has lectured for 12 years on a range of subjects in Art History. 120 illustrations