History has often been made by kings, queens, explorers, and conquerors, but also by artists, prophets, courtesans, and psychopaths. The biographer of Joseph Stalin and the Romanovs, Simon Sebag Montefiore offers this collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about such figures as Jesus Christ, Buddha, Nero, Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, W.A. Mozart, Anne Frank, William Shakespeare, Genghis Khan, Toussaint l'Ouverture, Elvis Presley, and Catherine the Great.