Giorgio Vasari's Lives Of your Artists (1550) was the landmark biography focusing on secular life. Vasari produced celebrities of his subjects, because the Lives became an early "bestseller". The feminist scholar Carolyn Heilbrun observed that Ladies's biographies and autobiographies began to change character throughout the second wave of feminist activism. http://Bolshoyforum.com/forum/index.php?action=go;url=aHR0cHM6Ly9hZHZlcnRpc2VzbWFydC5jb20vcC9TZWN1cml0eS1GZWF0dXJlcy1vZi10aGUtTGlmdE1hc3Rlci1MZWFyLzMyOA==