How To Use Biographer In A Sentence
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HPL lived and died in genteel poverty, and some biographers have suggested that poor diet brought on by poverty may have hastened his death.
Someone Is Angry On the Internet
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And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
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The biographer must always be doubted, cross-questioned, read between the lines.
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He was called to the Irish bar in 1951 and has earned a reputation as an esteemed playwright, poet and biographer.
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Of course, it never hurts if a biographer's subject boozes and ... whatever the non-gender-specific equivalent of "wenches" is.
ON PARNASSUS FOR 15 MINUTES
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One can think of very few biographers who have the ability to deal with critical assessment of such diversity and unwieldy fusions of anecdote and myth.
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Ethical biographers and autobiographers work with veracity as their aim (this is the motivation for all that research, after all) and this striving for veracity is respected, and expected, by readers.
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The long road home. Latest twitter updates for the unauthorized authorized autobiographer
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We are asked by the author, a biographer not only of Charles Dickens but of London too, to contemplate the novelist unbuttoned, in peep-show dishabille.
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While it is almost inevitable that a biographer will either be a hagiographer or a betrayer, his betrayals are, actually, of a special order.
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He was diffident about his achievements, in contrast to the self-aggrandisement common to autobiographers.
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The results show that the aims of historians and biographers may radically diverge.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The biographer is obliged to tell the truth -- even when it means saying something good about someone.
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News
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The story is told by Michelangelo's pupil and biographer Condivi and is therefore presumably true in essentials.
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Of the two latest biographers, it is Nicholas Roe, a professor of English at St Andrews University, who writes most expansively about the poet's ancestry and precocious development as a poet.
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Last year the retired general pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information by sharing official log books with his biographer, who was also his mistress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here, she again proves herself a gifted critic and biographer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Musicians, critics and biographers have long been unable to agree.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The plates used to make Browne's illustrations for "David Copperfield" are here, as are Dickens's traveling inkwell and an ivory seal given to him by his best friend and future biographer, John Forster.
The Best of Dickens's Life and Times
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Experiencing a mild hallucination of this sort is a good sign for the biographer, Geoff insists.
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At 20, Gertrude was ‘a snob, a bluestocking, a woman with attitude’, according to her biographer.
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According to Kelly, his biographer, he was slowly being poisoned to death by low-level carbon monoxide, resulting from a lifetime of cooking over a charcoal in close, unventilated quarters.
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Like many autobiographers, her honesty leans towards self-indulgence in her refusal to attempt to give the reader anything more than a blandly introspective narrative.
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Experiencing a mild hallucination of this sort is a good sign for the biographer, Geoff insists.
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Just as in the mythic prehistoric stage of many nations there is a body of legendary matter, which often reappears in somewhat different form, so there is a floating plankton-like mass of tradition and storiology that seems to attach to eminence wherever it emerges and is repeated over and over again, concerning the youth of men who later achieve distinction, which biographers often incorporate and attach to the time, place, and person of their heroes.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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In his boyhood, the autobiographer is an unreconstructed rustic who might have stepped out of a pastoral elegy of Virgil or Theocritus.
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From September, 500 out-of-print titles from authors such as Clark, the outspoken Conservative minister, the Labour politician and biographer Roy Jenkins, Booker prizewinner Bernice Rubens and poet and critic Edith Sitwell will be available globally via a new online service to be called Bloomsbury Reader.
Bloomsbury brings Edith Sitwell to the ebook
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As the author of twenty-six books, most of them biographies, I've developed a kind of motto: "The biographer is obliged to tell the truth -- even when it means saying something good about someone.
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News
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Certainly this critique of autobiography has validity; how many autobiographers are truly honest even with themselves, let alone with their readers, about themselves in narrative?
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He was a good parson, and I am happy to have been introduced to his life by such a reliable biographer.
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She largely succeeds with the former - although I do think she's wrong to say that if an autobiographer slants her story to fit her own purposes, the enterprise is doomed.
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Biographers were ever the under-belly of the literary world, patronised because they weren't epic poets or triple-decker novelists, and demonised as gossips and sneaks.
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Thatcher's biographer Hugo Young said Britain's possession of an independent nuclear deterrent was the aspect of her inheritance about which she countenanced least argument.
Thatcher went behind cabinet's back with Trident purchase
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Because he was so often referred to in pompous tones as ‘the eminent historian and biographer’, I would sometimes address him as: ‘Dear eminence.’
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So kaleidoscopic is the succession of these "mothers" of Miss Edgeworth, that emotion tends to dry up under it, and even the most patient of biographers wearies a little before the duty of chronicling their various arrivals and exits.
Maria Edgeworth
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Il faut opter," says M. Blaze de Bury, one of her latest biographers, as if the peasant household of 1412 had inhabited an Alsatian cottage in 1872.
Jeanne d'Arc
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Last year the retired general pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information by sharing official log books with his biographer, who was also his mistress.
Times, Sunday Times
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His biographer has rightly called him a ‘southern nationalist’ and the ‘last of the doctrinaires of the Old South.’
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Biographer Brenda Maddox describes Rosalind as a disputatious kind of woman with some personality problems.
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Drummund, who was also a biographer for Billy Graham, wrote an excellent biography on Finney which deals with this.
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Macaulay was a prolific poet, essayist, novelist, biographer and correspondent, whose life was a complex mixture of public and private.
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Novelists, poets and playwrights all see such biographers as parasites.
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She comes from Italian immigrant stock, and her family is lucky to have one of those tireless biographers who traces everything back to a plot of land in Lombardi.
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Far too often biographers are obsessed with sex, courtly intrigue, or military manoeuvres.
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But an irrational hunch, a feeling that you learn to trust as a biographer, compelled me to schedule an appointment for the next day.
Times, Sunday Times
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At Rome he fulfilled the humble office of infirmarian in the convent of Ara Coeli; and his biographers record the miraculous cure of many whom he attended, through his pious intercession.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Jeremy Lewis, who has worked extensively in publishing and has chronicled the memoirs of other significant publishers, becomes the ideal biographer to evoke the life of a publisher.
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Plutarch wrote in his native Greek and was a prolific essayist, philosopher, biographer, and historian.
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For the unwearying biographer of Vladimir Nabokov, gathering his subject's documentary remains meant a commute to Montreux, Switzerland, and to Cornell University, from his home in Auckland, New Zealand.
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But there was another side to this English poet, novelist, journalist, biographer and controversialist.
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Much sprightlier, much more quotable; but alas, what meat is there in that for the biographer?
The Times Literary Supplement
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The biographer is obliged to tell the truth -- even when it means saying something good about someone.
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News
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Latest twitter updates for the unauthorized authorized autobiographer »
Holmes contra Holmes
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On the other hand, it makes him an elusive target for a biographer.
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It is a genuine biography with that special accent due to the biographer's personality and his power of what I may call penetrative synthesis.
When Winter Comes to Main Street
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He is less an evangelist than a biographer of Jesus, a "harmonizer," a corrector after the manner of Marcion and
The Life of Jesus
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Latter-day biographers and armchair psychologists all had a crack at why he liked to drink so much.
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The New York Times obituary quotes Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis, Kennan's authorized biographer: ‘He'll be remembered as a diplomatist and a grand strategist of the cold war.’
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But I suspect other biographers write about lives they consider to be exemplary or admonitory.
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The bibliopoles of Conduit Street have been eminently happy in the selection of such a biographer to open their undertaking; and the popularity of this volume must be such as favourably to attract the attention of the public.
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Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts.
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At least three biographers have been snubbed by the elder Basquiat.
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Biographers tend to be more accurate and objective than autobiographers.
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It ought not to be too much to ask, even for a troubled soul such as Rooney, described by his official biographer as a polite, respectful, well-brought-up young man.
Sir Alex Ferguson's better half knew better than Wayne Rooney | Paul Wilson
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Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts.
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So far there appear to be no notable examples of persons or heirs who have sold the rights to unpublished documents to biographers.
Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
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To appoint a biographer is to bespeak a panegyric; and I doubt whether they who collect their books for the Public, and, like me, are conscious of no intrinsic worth, do but beg mankind to accept of talents (whatever they were) in lieu of virtues.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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The biographer recounts his subject's response to the case of Mendel Beilis, a brick-factory worker accused of murdering a 12-year-old boy in Kiev in 1912, supposedly to use the blood to prepare matzoh for the Passover holiday—the old blood libel.
A Jewish Revolutionary
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Scientology lawyers are believed to be drawing up a lawsuit seeking GBP50m in compensation from the publishers of an unauthorised biography of Tom Cruise written by Princess Diana's biographer, Andrew Morton" - The Bookseller
Scientology lawyers to sue over book
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It's very rare for a sporting biographer to have simultaneously a genuine intimacy with their subject and the latitude to call a life as they see it.
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Caravaggio painted in Rome most of his life although his work was largely rejected at the time on the grounds of "indecorum," according to many biographers.
John M. Eger: Restoration Jobs Available in Florence and Malta
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The quotable David Simon: Of course its socialism
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Subsequently, family friends and biographers have tried to minimize the effect.
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From September, 500 out-of-print titles from authors such as Clark, the outspoken Conservative minister, the Labour politician and biographer Roy Jenkins, Booker prizewinner Bernice Rubens and poet and critic Edith Sitwell will be available globally via a new online service to be called Bloomsbury Reader.
Bloomsbury brings Edith Sitwell to the ebook
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The film critic and biographer has been commissioned to tidy up the novel and write an afterword to set the book in context.
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He was involved in a series of "dalliances" outside his marriage, he later acknowledged to his biographer, Robert Timberg.
Mikarrhea
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Writing in the second century AD, the biographer Suetonius employed the word luxuria to characterize the degenerate behavior of Emperor Nero, whose habits he said included traveling with a thousand carriages pulled by mules shod with silver, and entertaining in his wildly extravagant palace, which he had overlaid with gold and fitted with pipes to spray perfume on his guests.
The English Is Coming!
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In particular, much has been said of the dress Wallis wore for the reception, described by biographer Michael Thornton as ‘a dramatic dress of violet lamé highlighted by a brilliant green sash.’
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The long road home. Latest twitter updates for the unauthorized authorized autobiographer
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No other man "ghosted" more books for magicians - Walter Gibson became both biographer and the "ghost writer" for Howard Thurston, Harry Houdini, and Harry Blackstone.
Walter Gibson AKA Maxwell Grant
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Looking more like a steamfitter on holiday than a colleague of the magnificent [Richard harding] Davis," biographer Richard O'Connor says, Jack London nevertheless intended getting to the heart of the matter: "He carried a camera instead of a walking stick, and proposed to record the sight and smells of war, both on film and paper, at the level of the infantryman's boots and the cookfires of the cavalry on march.
JACK LONDON'S WAR
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By and large, critics and biographers have tended to accept this low valuation.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She's been lucky in attracting an even-tempered sympathetic biographer like Ms. Leider, whose book, like the best of its genre, sends you back to the films.
The Queen of Comity
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Last year the retired general pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information by sharing official log books with his biographer, who was also his mistress.
Times, Sunday Times
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As his biographer Martin Stannard points out, "Of all the pre-war manuscripts, that of Scoop is the most heavily emended, and further revision is revealed by the substantial structural changes which appear when it is compared with the printed text.
William Boot: Evelyn Waugh's legendary journalist
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Y'know, the part about playing amateur psychobiographer?
McCain "needs to make an opponent an enemy in his mind to kind of get up for this. He personalizes conflict..."
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The events of the leader's life were heavily embellished by his biographers.
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Where Mr. Farrell and Mr. Kersten part company as biographers is in their handling of a particular episode that forms what the latter calls the "fulcrum" of Darrow's career.
A Man in Search of a Lost Cause
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The biographer would enjoy no autonomy or independence whatsoever.
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This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was ‘finding his feet as a writer’.
Summertime and J.M. Coetzee on Beauty and Consolation
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In his efforts to remove ingested objects before they damaged the bodies in which they nested, this pioneer of endoscopy was "a time-bomb detonator, a defuser of explosions," in the words of his biographer, Mary Cappello.
Medicine
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It was a toss - up who was dirtier, Samuel Johnson or his biographer James Boswell.
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Sadly, from a biographer's point of view, with great power came great boringness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Van Gogh as the subject for a biographer is thus a test case.
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On 15 August, fearing a lack of supplies, and suffering severely from what his biographers call gout and from impaired eyesight, he left his new discoveries and steered for Haiti.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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There he began writing polemical articles “in profusion,” the biographer Richard Wightman Fox reports, in part to support his mother, who lived with him, and a spendthrift older brother.
A Man for All Reasons
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Band biographer John Robb who has live-tweeted nearly every reunion show they've done reported a triumph.
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Lang biographers recall that the director often referred to this discussion in later life and liked to embroider some of the details.
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The autobiographer can incline towards self-criticism as a defence against charges of inappropriate amour propre.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But even more charming -- _più grazioso, _ the biographer calls it -- was the incident when he once asked a father whether he would give his son to Saint Pasquale.
Old Calabria
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As for her biographer, our last sight of him is consistently bathetic as he leaves the sale of the duchess's effects, having successfully bid for a monogrammed bathmat.
Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers - review
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Even so, the literary life — the rivalries of authors, the intrusiveness of biographers, the presumptuousness of critics especially academics — revolted him.
A Phony Who Reformed
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Biographers tend to be more accurate and objective than autobiographers.
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Even the most capable biographers stray when they dabble in Freudian psycho-waffle.
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But it was not until last summer that she broke her silence and called her former lover, when she feared biographers would unearth the details.
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Teachout, an estimable critic, biographer, and former jazzbo, draws on newly available recordings and writings to limn the fullest portrait to date of the most popular and beloved figure in 20th-century music.
Cover to Cover
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A biographer should be sympathetic; not blind, not indulgent, but _sympathetic_.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
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Biographers may bridle at the damage to the reputations of their pet subjects.
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The book explores the relationship between an impossibly eccentric contemporary composer and his grudging biographer.
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Once, amid a furious shouting match reported by Clinton biographer David Maraniss, then-Gov.
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Hadrian, we are informed by his fourth-century biographer, built his wall to divide the Romans from the barbarians.
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As one of his biographers noted, the statistics of his benefactions alone are mind-numbing.
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He's no fool; he knows this is not a popular position to take," says Robert Timberg, a McCain biographer and editor of Proceedings: The Magazine of the U.S.
McCain firm on Iraq war despite cost to candidacy
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Nokia would probably not be the force it is today if it had not gone through what company biographer Martti Haikio calls the annus horribilis of 1988.
Battle Of The Nordic Giants
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According to biographers, he joined the Communist Party in 1934, primarily as an anti-Fascist.
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When the memoirs of Miss Pamela Andrews appeared, the future biographer of her doubly supposititious brother was a not very young man of thirty-three, who had written a good many not very good plays, had contributed to periodicals, and had done a little work at the Bar, besides living, at least till his marriage and it may be feared later, an exceedingly "rackety" life.
The English Novel
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Famous in his lifetime as a journalist, literary editor, autobiographer and short story writer, he is now out of print and increasingly forgotten.
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In practice, the biographer has to choose not between lively and dull, but more subtly and perplexingly, between candid and glib.
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He is, says his biographer, ‘an old-fashioned theatrical vagabond, travelling light’.
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(Each of us is devoted to resurrecting a chosen life in biographical form, and we gain comfort from sharing our common concerns with fellow biographers.)
Nigel Hamilton: Apocalypse in Print
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Shakespeare's biographers now give full weight to material sidelined by earlier scholars.
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And the collectors included not only bibliophiles and affected interior decorators but also biographers of famous men and the thousands of amateurs who participated in the era's terrific quest to collect and compile useful knowledge.
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But I didn't want to become a jobbing biographer.
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The biographer's fawning first chapter sets the tone.
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On several occasions, Vespasiano underscores how the duke kept faith in the face of daunting opposition and recounts how he led nighttime raids on enemy fortifications. 139 Until recently, Montefeltro's reputation, bolstered by biographers and historians, had exculpated him on points for which condottieri were generally held in contempt.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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He may have painted Madonnas beautifully but his first biographer Vasari suggested his death was not due to fever but to amatory excess.
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Still, that would not have answered; even the biographer's enemy could not be cruel enough to ask him to let this real grievance, this compact and substantial and picturesque figure, this rawhead-and-bloody-bones, come striding in there among those pale shams, those rickety spectres labeled WET-NURSE, BONNET-SHOP, and so on -- no, the father of all malice could not ask the biographer to expose his pathetic goblins to a competition like that.
In Defence of Harriet Shelley
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There are certain men and women who by reason of their genius, eminence, achievement, or idiosyncrasy seem to exercise a sort of magnetism on biographers and publishers.
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Though the family obsession with privacy required that much be left out, Carrington had done the essential spadework, and all subsequent biographers are indebted to him.
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The story of Frank Sinatra's rise and self-invention and the story of his fall and remarkable comeback had the lineaments of the most essential American myths, and their telling, Pete Hamill once argued, required a novelist, "some combination of Balzac and Raymond Chandler," who might "come closer to the elusive truth than an autobiographer as courtly as Sinatra will ever allow himself to do.
Book Review Roundup: Lennon, Dylan, Sinatra And Marilyn Monroe
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He also brought back with him, his biographers assert, an infant daughter, the offspring of an amour, as some of them with great circumstantiality inform us, with a Lisbon lady of noble birth, whose name, however, as well as that of the street she lived in, they omit to mention.
Don Quixote
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He remains the doyen of popular historians and biographers and in his latest title he has lost none of his ability to bring the past vividly to life for the general reader.
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This ode to education is also reminiscent of the glorification of American education by eighteenth-century male American autobiographers like Benjamin Franklin.
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The hagiographic writings of journalists and biographers, meanwhile, focussed on the unique qualities of celebrated individuals and thus functioned as an adjunct to the apparatus.
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She was aware of the King's private brothel, the Parc-aux-Cerfs, but most biographers and historians dismiss the charges that she procured young women for him as malicious court gossip.
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The Lord was described by a nineteenth-century biographer as ‘rough and uncourtly in manners and conversation, dull and uneducated.’
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Rechy has said that the autobiographer is the biggest liar for claiming, 'This is exactly how it happened.'
The Making of John Rechy
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(Soundbite of bell) (Soundbite of applause) SAGAL: Vargas Llosa punched famed author Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the face, because, biographers say, Marquez had, quote, "consoled" Vargas Llosa's wife when Vargas Llosa wasn't around.
Who's Carl This Time?
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Historically, public figures or their heirs have either allowed biographers unrestricted access to documents or burned them to avoid unwanted publicity.
Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
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Now committed to voluminous and arduous prose writing, he keeps his biographers busy with attacks on prelatical episcopy and tracts on church government, but he did not forget his ambition for poetry and fame; hence his autobiographical digression in The Reason of Church-government (1642), which gives an account of his youthful travels and studies, and asserts his claim to be a poet of achievement, continuing promise, and ultimate fame.
Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday
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Future biographers recorded that Princess “Schnapps” Mathilde bankrolled the SPD before her death in 1933 after cables between her and a member of the Red Shock Troop surfaced in Rome.
Waltzing Mathilde
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But an irrational hunch, a feeling that you learn to trust as a biographer, compelled me to schedule an appointment for the next day.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hard yakka for her, but on the surface of things, a promising canvas for an enterprising biographer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pepys is to diarists what Shakespeare is to dramatists and Boswell is to biographers; the standard against whom all others must be measured.
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The biographer's contextualising presence allows us to catch even the most recondite allusion.
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Most biographers hope to start with the hearts and minds of their subjects and work outwards to reveal the shape of their lives.
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Neither his books nor his biographers discuss any consideration of the Bible or biblical creation.
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The visit, his second, was by all accounts a typical trip by a foreign prelate, and even his devoutest biographers depict it as one of no great consequence.
In Search of a Pope
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The hope, obviously, is that a kind of chemical reaction between biographer and biographee will spark fresh illuminations of subjects who have already been exhaustively studied and written about.
Dickens Our Contemporary
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Deliziosi, Don Pino's biographer, notes the paradox of a parish priest who died at the hands of Christians who were baptized in the same parish.
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Last documented by the artist's biographer Gian Pietro Bellori in 1672, this hugely influential work disappeared shortly afterward, resurfacing again only now.
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Impecunious and improvident - or, as one biographer phrased it more kindly, ‘unprosperous’ were invariably on the list of invocations as well.
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Suicide was also claimed by Presley's biographer, Albert Goldman.
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But several biographers have argued that Barrie was asexual, possibly impotent, and certainly never acted on any improper urges.
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Now committed to voluminous and arduous prose writing, he keeps his biographers busy with attacks on prelatical episcopy and tracts on church government, but he did not forget his ambition for poetry and fame; hence his autobiographical digression in The Reason of Church-government (1642), which gives an account of his youthful travels and studies, and asserts his claim to be a poet of achievement, continuing promise, and ultimate fame.
Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday
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The biographer delicately demonstrates the impact of this tumultuous childhood on the poet's work, without resorting to cod psychology.
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One biographer assumes that he was a boy of somewhat ordinary talents that would fit him only for the mercantile trade.
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Alexandra Lapierre, award-winning French novelist and biographer, has produced a book that combines biography, fiction and scholarship.
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Here her official biographer imagines what she would be doing today.
The Sun
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The life of the autobiographer is fittingly tumultuous and disordered.
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In chancing upon her subject's scrapbooks and photographs, Seymour hit the kind of paydirt of which most biographers can only dream.
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Far too often biographers are obsessed with sex, courtly intrigue, or military manoeuvres.
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The life of the autobiographer is fittingly tumultuous and disordered.
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Novelists, poets and playwrights all see such biographers as parasites.
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Most biographers have attributed her tenacity and audaciousness to the competitive, mercurial nature of an acting career in New York and Hollywood.
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Pedants pounce on such tell-tale signs that what purports to be an image of Shakespeare is really an idealised image of the biographer himself.
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The diseased body stages a revolt against those functions that biographers record, reasserting the animal in pain, so similar in the end to other animals in pain.
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We are asked by the author, a biographer not only of Charles Dickens but of London too, to contemplate the novelist unbuttoned, in peep-show dishabille.
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Now the 67-year-old historian and biographer is having his say.
Times, Sunday Times
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O.P. Jindal was one of Indias greatest uninstructed engineers, his biographer Anil Dharker writes.
India's Savitri Jindal
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He also began work on his life of 17th century biographer and antiquarian John Aubrey.
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I also reported that Tom Bower, biographer of Robert Maxwell, had a new biography deal.
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Her biographers have suggested that Clare had hoped to join the friars in their itinerant life--a kind of Maid Marian with a vocation.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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Giacometti had an exceptionally powerful and retentive visual memory, and his biographer attested to frequent instances of recollections decades old.
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The conservative philosopher, George Santayana, addressed the danger of the lack of em>retentiveness in response to what Leon Edel, Henry James's biographer, referred to as ‘America's cult of impermanence’.
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But autobiographies can also show a narrow view, as the autobiographer is choosing which elements of their life they wish to share with the world, and which they will conceal.
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Biographers tend to be more accurate and objective than autobiographers.
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Morefield Storey, one of Sumners biographers, says Brookss cane was a heavy gutta-percha cane and that the blows were continued until the cane broke.
On the Crime Against Kansas
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Most of his biographers and all of his friends say that he was simply a German, and when his country was at war he was duty-bound to build them an atomic pile.
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He departs agreeably from the normal procedures of the biographer, sometimes a little in the manner of The Quest for Corvo.
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Except for writers of obituaries and elegies, no serious biographer judges his subject under the aspect of eternity.
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Yet despite presenting a hilarious letter from Bernini's mamma pegging her son as an out-and-out "narcissist"—Mr. Mormando's term—the biographer exculpates the master of any really malicious double-dealing.
The Heirloom City
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Kathryn: Would you say Trudy, the Aspinall biographer, is acting out of hubris with her idea that she can have that story, that it is hers for the taking?
Entitlement: Jonathan Bennett Interview
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As biographer to Custer and bosom friend to ‘Jannie’ Smuts, this man had seen the world and shaped its course.
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A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee.
2009 May | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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Last year the retired general pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information by sharing official log books with his biographer, who was also his mistress.
Times, Sunday Times
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And as a biographer of Virgil Thomson and a Gertrude Stein devotee, I am thrilled to be staying just a few blocks from the apartment building where Stein and Alice B. Toklas lived at 27 Rue de Fleurus.
Paris Journal: Gerard Mortier and Paris Opera - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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Hmm, yes, the Arnold Kling biographer is going to have a LOT to wade through.
Wading Through Schumpeter, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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It is very true of the societies I am about to describe, that he was "among them, not of them;" and it is also most true that this fact was apparent in all the demeanor of his bibliopolical and typographical allies towards him whenever he visited them under their roofs -- not a bit less so than when they were received at his own board; but still, considering how closely his most important worldly affairs were connected with the personal character of the Ballantynes, I think it a part, though neither a proud nor a very pleasing part, of my duty as his biographer, to record my reminiscences of them and their doings in some detail.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
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Neustria, together with the fact that the name Britannia, or Brittany, as applied to that particular province in Gaul was forgotten for centuries before any of the old Latin "Lives" of St. Patrick, except the first, were written, must have induced some old biographers of the
Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town
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The region where Reagan grew up - defined by the towns where his salesman father, Jack Reagan, could land a job - gave him a sense of what Reagan biographer Lou Cannon calls rootedness, while his mother, Nelle Reagan, saw to it that he viewed his glass as at least half full.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Often, his birthdate is recorded as March 15, 1767 in South Carolina, but many biographers claim that he was born to his Irish parents on their journey to America.
Five People Who Changed Their Birthdays | myFiveBest
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Biographer Field notes that the theme of nympholepsy dates from 1928 in Nabokovs poetry and 1938 in his prose.
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So far there appear to be no notable examples of persons or heirs who have sold the rights to unpublished documents to biographers.
Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
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That the great are not as happy as they seem, that the external circumstances of fortune and rank do not constitute felicity, is asserted by every moralist; the historian can seldom, consistently with his dignity, pause to illustrate this truth, it is therefore to the biographer we must have recourse.
Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale
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In the biographers' accounts, the cardinal is cast as something of a second father figure, teaching the young Bernini the rudiments of literature even as his actual father taught him how to hold a drill.
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The biographer Plutarch also drew on the vulgate tradition, but read widely from other sources as well.
Alexander the Great
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But it's also extraordinary that they can be faithfully reported by a biographer who seems committed to hagiography.
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And finally we have the spelling issue -- Vivienne Eliot apparently spelled her name both "Vivien" and "Vivienne," which is fine, but confusing when her biographer follows the same dual spelling without explanation.
In which we prove that the Internet promotes stupidity with genius:
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All the gaps I've been discussing are the sorts of things that bedevil, perhaps inspire, all biographers, indeed all gossipers.
