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.

Many of us know that Bob Marley was a singer-songwriter who popularized reggae music and whose Jamaican culture and Rastafarian beliefs have attained worldwide influence. Among the surprises in this book, however, are that his music inspired 7,000 prisoners of war to escape, and that he was shot twice while trying to bring peace between two political groups.