(series) Looking at the lives of some of the world's most creative people, these succinct biographies use text and infographics to present 50 defining facts, dates, and achievements about each individual. (blurb) Who was William Shakespeare? He earned immortality with 37 plays and 154 sonnets, but as this overview discloses, he left behind six different versions of his signature, and nobody knows what he did between 1585 and 1592.