(027667) Marius, Richard. Thomas More: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 562 pages. Fine in Very Good DJ. DJ price clipped and has a 1/4 inch repaired tear at top edge of front panel. Biography of the British statesman and humanist who lived from 1477 to 1535. He wrote the notable History of King Richard III (1513–18) and the renowned Utopia (1516) , which was an immediate success with humanists,including Desiderius Erasmus. In 1517 More was named to the king's council, and he became Henry VIII's secretary and confidant. In 1523 he was elected speaker of the House of Commons. He wrote A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529) to refute heretical writings. After the fall of Cardinal Wolsey (1529) , More succeeded him as lord chancellor, but he resigned in 1532when he could not affirm Henry's divorce from Catherine. He also refused to accept the Act of Supremacy. In 1534 More was charged with high treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he wrote his Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation. In 1535 he was tried and sentenced to death by hanging, which the king commuted to beheading. He was declared a saint by the Church in 1935 ISBN: 0394459822 (More, Thomas, Statesmen, Christian Saints, Great Britain)