Brief Lives

Late 17th-century collection of biographies by John Aubrey

This article is about a collection of biographies. For the play by Patrick Garland, see Brief Lives (play). For the graphic novel, see The Sandman: Brief Lives. For the novel by Anita Brookner, see Brief Lives (novel).

John Aubrey, author of Brief Lives

Brief Lives is a collection of short biographies written by John Aubrey (1626–1697) in the last decades of the 17th century.