| 单词 | biographer |
| 例句 | In order to ensure that she would be the first and most authoritative Anthony biographer, Harper burned most of Anthony’s letters and documents. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z As one of his biographers put it, his body did not just occupy space; it seemed to organize the space around it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “It was questioned by many if the loss of Mr. Root was not irreparable,” wrote James Ellsworth in a letter to Burnham’s biographer, Charles Moore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was, as one biographer observed with an all but audible sigh, "almost entirely innocent of rhetorical accomplishments." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z By early middle age, Harding’s biographer Francis Russell writes, his “lusty black eyebrows contrasted with his steel-gray hair to give the effect of force, his massive shoulders and bronzed complexion gave the effect of health.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z His subsequent attempts to walk through the walls of his house resulted in what his biographer Radolphus Pittiman describes as a ‘concussion of ten days’ duration’. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He suffered, in the words of one of his few biographers, from shyness to a "degree bordering on disease." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was also at odds with the facts, and with Oppenheimer’s own judgment as he relayed it a few years later to Lawrence’s biographer, Flerbert Childs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The days of the small Bureau were over,” Hoover’s biographer Curt Gentry observed. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The experience left him, in the words of one biographer, “near hysterical.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Their first sight of it, on May 29, left a vivid impression, wrote George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville’s principal biographer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Newton’s modern biographer, Richard Westfall, concludes that we should regard Newton’s claim to have been surprised by the oblong image cast by the prism ‘as a rhetorical device which is not to be understood literally’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Neither Condivi nor Vasari, Michelangelo’s biographers who knew him personally mention the master carving this little angel; they mention only the angel carved for the altar in Siena. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole would be, as MacKaye ecstatically described it, “a retreat from profit”—a notion that others saw as “smacking of Bolshevism,” in the words of one biographer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z His mind, in the words of one biographer, was "always operating out towards the frontiers, as far as he could see, and that was a great deal further than most other men." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z According to his biographer, John Maynard Keynes, He was rather a Judaic Monotheist of the school of Maimonides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some biographers, pursuing the same interpretive line, have suggested that his deep-rooted insecurities drove him onto the plains of Weehawken and then into the fatal gaze of Aaron Burr. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Without so much as a backward look,” his biographer observed, “Loomis quit Wall Street for good.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But there is, surely, bound to be an archival dimension for future historians and biographers. Don't write off literary letters 2010-10-11T11:38:00Z “I think there’s a resistance to the idea that you can be a good biographer and good historian and also a good novelist,” Ackroyd says. | Peter Ackroyd’s London Calling 2013-09-12T13:00:12Z Roth’s untruths had made Pim’s job as biographer that much harder, but he came to regard them with compassion. A Timely Biography Traces Joseph Roth’s Accounts of Fascism 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z However her official biographer, Paul DeBarros, contends her career blossomed after the relationship ended. Jazz pianist Marian McPartland dies 2013-08-22T10:30:31Z Shields, the biographer, found it and shared it with The Post. To shill a ‘Mockingbird’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Smooth biographers offer clean narrative lines, well-underscored themes, and carrots, in the form of cliffhangers, to lure the reader onward. The Devilish Life and Art of Lucian Freud, in Full Detail 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z His biographer, DT Max, said "he thought that removing the scrim of Nardil might help him see a way out of his creative impasse". Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z While preparing the premiere of his symphonic hymn to mankind, which sets Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” in its finale, Beethoven was abusive to devoted assistants like Anton Schindler, an early biographer. Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z To the literary biographer, binges and benders are a godsend – a chance to recount lurid anecdotes under the guise of earnest psychoanalytic enquiry. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z Walter Isaacson, the best-selling biographer and president of the Aspen Institute, will deliver the 43rd annual Jefferson Lecture on Monday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington. ArtsBeat: Walter Isaacson to Deliver Jefferson Lecture 2014-05-11T21:41:47Z Dery isn’t an experienced biographer, so it’s understandable that he stumbles. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Rogers’ biographer, Maxwell King, attributes these qualities to his mother, Nancy Rogers’ deep influence. How Mister Rogers’ faith shaped his idea of children’s television 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z His father, according to a story that biographers called Mr. Ailes’s “Rosebud” moment, once urged young Roger to jump from the top of his bunk bed into his father’s open arms. Roger Ailes, architect of conservative TV juggernaut Fox News, is dead at 77 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z According to their biographer Christopher Sandford, writing in the Guardian, they didn’t split it evenly: everyone got £5 except Brian Jones, who took the difference. The Rolling Stones, By the Numbers: Celebrating 50 Years Since They “Start It Up” 2012-07-12T10:00:46Z A biographer of Nicolson likened her letters to “those flaming yellow bulldozers which one meets tearing up road verges, hedgerows, concrete walls, asphalt roads and any and every obstacle that lies in their path.” Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z “Mailer had a middle-class respect for social obligations,” says J. Michael Lennon, the author’s biographer and the editor of this book. ‘Selected Letters,’ Norman Mailer’s Correspondence 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z “I think he takes on a lot more engagements than he used to,” said royal biographer Claudia Joseph. It's a boy: Kate, wife of UK's Prince William, gives birth to third... 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Indeed he seems on occasion to lack a biographer's basic curiosity about the minutiae. CS Lewis: A Life – review 2013-04-14T07:00:01Z Also on the list - released to mark the Queen's official birthday - are Beatles biographer Hunter Davies and singer and DJ Cerys Matthews. Day-Lewis knighted in Honours list 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Above all, the pronunciation, because I don’t have an ear for it,” Pope Francis would later tell a biographer. Pope Francis struggles with English. Here’s how he’ll get his message across in the U.S. 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z It was one of the most important moments of his life, his daughter, the writer and biographer Susan Cheever, told me as we toured the house recently. Closing the Book on Cheever’s House 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z He becomes the great man’s trusted confidant, replacing Sonya as Leo’s first reader and biographer. The Literati: Tolstoy’s Last Chapter 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Neighbors and friends are constantly dropping by, notably Alan Bennett, the playwright and London Review diarist, who seems to arrive every other night for dinner, and Claire Tomalin, the biographer and journalist. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z Manchester and Reid first met in 1998 at Manchester’s Middletown, Conn. home while Reid was reporting a feature about Manchester’s fellow Marines, who were visiting the biographer to lift his spirits. The Last Lion Author Paul Reid on How He Came to Write Churchill’s Biography—and His Eight-Year Struggle to Complete It 2013-01-03T16:00:43Z I suppose there might be material there for some future Ph.D. researcher or literary biographer — hopefully long after I’m dead. Ian Rankin: By the Book 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Though he was most excited by male thinkers, women — the writer M. C. Richards, the composer Pauline Oliveros, the biographer Ornella Volta, the dancer Carolyn Brown — all receive his eager admiration here. Review: John Cage’s Historical Niche, a Legacy in Letters 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Blake is freed from the biographer’s burden of fleshing out his story with layers of fact and detail. Books Of the Times: ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s Memoir 2014-02-23T22:48:06Z Which historians and biographers do you most admire? Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z She did not grant interviews and was as unlikely to work with a biographer as was J.D. Harper Lee told me — graciously — to leave her alone 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The composer's most recent biographer, Paul Kildea, writes of Britten "dealing with the suffocating awfulness of the British class system" when he started work on this new comedy. Britten's comic hero Albert Herring: the only virgin in the village 2013-05-08T17:59:01Z Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t,” Jobs said to his chosen biographer, Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs: the afterlife 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Wilson is a prolific historian and biographer, with a scope ranging from the Elizabethans to the Victorians, but Wedgwood is a subject particularly close to his heart. The Potter's Hand by AN Wilson – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z She also has a Cinderella story so good it ought to have been made up by her biographer. Anna Netrebko: 'I can make Manon ... bad' 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z Isaac Deutscher, Trotsky’s biographer and a committed anti-Stalinist of the left, was probably the first to notice the diminished quality of later defections. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Barbara Heyman, a noted Barber scholar and biographer, explained to the Bargemusic audience that, partly through her diligence, the manuscript to the third and final movement was discovered a few years ago. Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z On CNN, historian and Obama biographer David Marannis said Obama's address was much more positive and active than his first inaugural speech four years ago. Inauguration offers brief pause from TV bickering 2013-01-21T22:31:05Z Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, biographers, historians, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most? The Book That Taught Tammy Duckworth How to Mummify Human Remains 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Reading this book, it seems clear that more readers and biographers should devote their time to this complex, intelligent and thoroughly un-boring woman. An overdue biography of Angela Carter 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z As a biographer, Ms. Peyser tended to focus on the personal lives and inner motivations of her subjects, an emphasis that attracted considerable controversy in musical circles. Joan Peyser, Bernstein and Gershwin Biographer, Dies at 80 2011-04-25T14:54:51Z Divine’s early biographers tell how he left his wife and children while still a young man, and resettled in Baltimore. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z In keeping with his wishes, she refused to cooperate with would-be biographers. AP Exclusive: Art owned by TS Eliot's wife on sale 2013-05-31T01:02:08Z Mr. Shadle paints these unfamiliar composers with sympathy, if not a biographer’s eye for character. Review: Douglas W. Shadle’s ‘Orchestrating the Nation’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z In some cases, they must do so, said Tim O’Brien, executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion and a biographer of President Trump. Perspective | The media’s by-the-numbers coverage of gun massacres must change 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z But it is also an oft-described, hashed-over and heavily analyzed event in military history, to the point where Mr. Korda relies transparently and heavily on the work of Lawrence’s many other biographers. Books Of the Times: Lawrence: Fresh Look at Warrior of Desert 2010-11-21T22:37:00Z I was drawn to writing about Marilyn because no one like me –an academic, a feminist biographer, and a historian of gender –had studied her. Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? 2012-07-21T21:05:42Z David McCullough has likened the biographer's choice to picking a roommate, one you must live with for years. Petraeus affair and the role of biographers 2012-11-14T18:16:03Z And biographers had already established that James Hughes, Langston’s father, who had left the family shortly after his son’s birth, was living in Buffalo. Langston Hughes Just Got a Year Older 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z This biographer does not, as one would expect, emerge from the ranks of the English literary world, but from the much smaller province of Afrikaans literature. JM Coetzee's official biography to hit shelves this summer 2013-03-21T16:05:07Z Yet those questions are barely answerable in earnest books by thoughtful biographers. Review: Puttin’ on the Pathos in a Tribute to Irving Berlin 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z He also begins a fitful transition to becoming a nature writer and a biographer of Edward Abbey and Wallace Stegner. New Harvard graduate tells dad: ‘Now, I want to play Ultimate Frisbee’ 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Thurman, a biographer and staff writer at The New Yorker, said the executors faced an impossible choice. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z "Then," Stravinsky told his biographer, "when the curtain opened on the group of knock-kneed and long-braided Lolitas jumping up and down, the storm broke." The Rite of Spring: 'The work of a madman' 2013-02-12T19:59:01Z According to Lee biographer Matthew Polly, the movie was a big enough success in China to earn sequel consideration. 10 amazing facts about Bruce Lee 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z For biographers, the quoting of a subject is as crucial as water to fish. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Her biographer takes some issue with the character that’s been portrayed. 2010-02-15T22:26:00Z We encounter Sontag as a series of masks, motifs, symptoms and symbols, with her biographer presenting a set of master keys that might explain her behavior. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Back in 1985, when President Ronald Reagan selected Edmund Morris as his official biographer, the writer vowed he would produce “a substantial, scholarly book.” 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z To keep the issue high on the country’s conscience and agenda, Truman unleashed what his biographer, David McCullough, would later describe as the president’s favorite strategy: “attack, attack, attack.” Tales of an aging WWII refugee: “We can’t turn our backs on the refugees of today” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z To this new project, she brings equally honed skills as a historian, literary critic and biographer. Review: ‘Looking for “The Stranger,”’ the Making of an Existential Masterpiece 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Sure, he’s a rock star, as historical biographers go: Pulitzer Prize winner, former editor of Newsweek and all that. Tim McGraw sings. Jon Meacham talks. This is not your regular book tour. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi once called Mr. Napoleon “the most exciting pianist the All Stars ever had. No one else could quite pound the piano like that and send the audience into such a frenzy.” Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The anthology will be edited by Hunter Davies, the official Beatles biographer, using Ono's archive and letters from private collections. John Lennon letters to be published 2011-04-11T12:01:11Z Eliot's death in 1965, Valerie became his executor, editing his poems and letters for publication and steadfastly refusing to cooperate with would-be biographers, in keeping with the poet's last wishes. T.S. Eliot's widow Valerie Eliot dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:43:10Z In “Hearing Homer’s Song,” the biographer Robert Kanigel offers the first full-scale account of Parry’s short life, mysterious demise and long-lived influence. Kicking Homer to the Curb: The American Scholar Who Upended the Classics 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z He died of heart failure on Sunday, his biographer Raymond Strait said. 'Bronze Buckeroo' Western star dies 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z He’s delivered what Vladimir Nabokov said a biographer should: “plain facts, no symbol-searching, no jumping at attractive but preposterous conclusions, no Marxist bunkum, no Freudian rot.” Review: Harry Crews’s Sense of Menace in Writing and in Life 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z But "Master of the Senate" was a redemptive book for both subject and biographer and Caro was welcomed, for the most part, by the Johnson camp. Caro is back, and the obsession goes on 2012-04-30T11:39:10Z “Both organizations want to own Anne Frank,” said Melissa Müller, an Austrian biographer of Anne. Two Groups Rekindle Fight Over Anne Frank 2013-06-16T21:25:04Z Of the novel’s modern English versions, the best has long been the Oxford World’s Classics edition by Verne biographer and scholar William Butcher. Review | ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ — about to get a reboot — is the perfect Christmas tale 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The Lyndon B. Johnson biographer Robert Caro noted that Johnson, then vice president, displayed a fury bordering on despair at being seated at the “loser’s table” at Robert F. Kennedy’s Virginia estate. Cultural Studies: Arranged Seating at Parties Can Be a Source of Anxiety for Guests 2012-06-01T20:07:09Z Photograph: Terry O'Neill/Getty Images It is a tricky deal being an authorised biographer. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore – review 2013-04-27T13:00:11Z In this delicate portrait, Lee takes on the challenge of an elusive late-bloomer — the great novelist and biographer who published her first book at 58 and became famous at 80. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Instead of doggedly retracing every step to stardom, as most musical biographers do, the Butterworth brothers and Taylor hopscotch across Brown’s life, sampling its highlights and pitfalls, as rapsters borrowed snippets of his music. REVIEW: 'Get On Up' Is a Loud, Proud and Oscar-Worthy James Brown Biopic 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Significant, too, were the many post-punk musicians who in the 1980s shaped what Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad subsequently termed a "shadow music industry". "Nevermind" 30 years on — how Nirvana’s second album tilted the world on its axis 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z This is a gift for the biographer, but there is almost no analysis here of the truths revealed in West's many autobiographical novels. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-06T08:00:36Z For biographer David Kaufman, the challenge in writing “Some Enchanted Evenings ” is transforming smoke, waves and moonbeams into something concrete on the page. Mary Martin — from Weatherford, Tex., to Broadway stardom 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z "He respected it until his death, and I will do the same. Let's leave it to our biographers, if we deserve them, to investigate that issue." Peru's Vargas Llosa to take secret of Garcia Marquez spat to grave 2014-04-24T19:23:27Z A historian of Italy and Britain, a biographer of Kipling and the onetime viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, as well as a prolific essayist, he is ideally suited to the task. A Close-Up Look at the British Men and Women Who Ruled India 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Campbell wrote about writers who pretend not to read their reviews, and biographers who hate their subjects. Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Either because publishers demand it or authors prefer it, recent biographers have tried to squeeze the story into one extended volume. Franklin Roosevelt’s Story Is Worth Telling Again and Again 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Here was an Etonian who became a rebellious spirit and whose life, superbly told by our most romantic contemporary biographer, will remind them how human nature works. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z His pending departure is “a real loss to the U.K.’s music scene,” Nicholas Kenyon, the managing director of the Barbican Center and Mr. Rattle’s biographer, said in an email. Simon Rattle to Leave the London Symphony for Munich 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z “I’m very sorry,” the fourth-tier socialite and royal biographer shot back. Another royal baby is on the way. How could the psychics, rogue butlers and columnists resist? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Forster’s biographers have always had to make sense of their subject’s decision to withhold “Maurice,” his novel about homosexual lovers, for posthumous publication. Books Of The Times: ?A Great Unrecorded History? of E. M. Forster by Wendy Moffat 2010-05-17T22:28:00Z Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh, a supporter of Francis, countered by Tweeting: “He’s making sure that they engage with him, not treat him like a sacred relic. He’s the Vicar of Christ, not a Roman emperor.” To kiss pope's hand - or not - enters the Catholic culture wars 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z That this is simply assumed as an axiom by many biographers is one problem; another is that the approach works a lot better on some writers than on others.” ArtsBeat: David Foster Wallace, Self-Help Reader 2011-04-11T19:20:13Z Members of the museum’s council, including Howard’s official biographer David Barnett and his former speechwriter Christopher Pearson, also complained vigorously about the way the institution reflected European settlement and frontier violence. What became of the Mistake Creek massacre? 2013-07-04T06:12:57Z Eventually, Keefe took a year off from law school and worked on “Chatter,” a book about government eavesdropping, on a New York Public Library fellowship that was directed by the biographer Jean Strouse. For Him, the Delight Is in the Digging 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Sorkin spoke to key players in his research, including Lisa, whose paternity Jobs initially denied, and who his biographer Walter x had been unable to talk to, but said most of the dialogue was fictional. Danny Boyle on Steve Jobs: movies must be made about powerful men 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z This is a familiar tale for Mr Meredith, a former journalist and a biographer with a deep affinity for Africa. The unlucky continent 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The other is Clifford Irving, de Hory’s biographer and a fabulist in his own right: He gained international infamy for publishing a book on Howard Hughes based on encounters that never happened. Does It Matter if a Documentary Is Staged? These Two Films Hold Answers 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z It's refreshing to encounter a book that reminds the reader what a gang of neo-Freudian sensationalists biographers can be. A Man in a Hurry – by Nick Harris, Helen Harris and Paul Marshall 2012-06-29T21:55:06Z His “great renunciation,” as one biographer called it, is a phenomenon without equivalent in music history. The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z She expected to become the biographer of the Irish born soldier Mike Hoare, nicknamed Mad Mike, who led several mercenary groups in the Congo crisis of the 1960s and the Seychelles in the 1970s. Irish author Bree O'Mara killed in Libya plane crash 2010-05-13T12:36:00Z Two official investigations, begun in 1947 and 1963, failed to reveal the identity of the informant; the matter has preoccupied multiple biographers since. A Strong New Lead in ‘The Betrayal of Anne Frank’ 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Honegger’s biographers have always hoped that “Chant de Libération” would clear his name. Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z To be a literary biographer is to court the extravagant ridicule of the very people you write about. The Critic Elizabeth Hardwick Was Very Tough on Biographies. Now Here’s One of Her. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z The autobiographer resisted the desire to point out the biographer must also have been half-asleep at this point, so dutifully displayed signs of traumatised guilt. Digested read: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 2010-09-27T21:01:00Z Unlike artists, who are almost professionally obliged to spread their emotions dazzlingly wide, biographers need to be organized and neat. How Giorgio Vasari Invented Art History as We Know It 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Such gaps naturally encourage a biographer to slide into armchair analysis. ‘Something in the Blood’ offers plenty of speculation about ‘Dracula’ author 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The miniseries’ heart and soul is in its sit-down interviews with academics, biographers, political advisers and, in some cases, the real-life candidates themselves. CNN’s “Race for the White House”: The campy history of cutthroat campaigns that 2016 deserves 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The Guardian reported that this dispute between the Beat poet Michael Horovitz and the biographer Roger Lewis was touched off by an essay written by Mr. Lewis, published in The Telegraph newspaper. When Titans Clash: Poets Edition 2010-06-15T15:38:00Z Carter promptly contacted Beatles authorities including biographer Mark Lewisohn and historians Bruce Spizer and Martin Lewis, none of whom were aware of any documentation on the recording. The mysterious 'train song' from the Beatles' 'A Hard Day's Night' 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z "The blues are a simple music, and I'm a simple man," he told the biographer David Ritz, who collaborated on King's autobiography. B.B. King built a bridge to the blues for the world 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z These are, as Leo Damrosch writes in “The Club,” arguably “the greatest British critic, biographer, political philosopher, historian and economist of all time.” Review | ‘The Club’ spotlights the stars of 18th-century British culture — and invites some new members 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Some modern biographers, Ms. Serfilippi notes, do address the question, if often briefly. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z In living her persona, Monroe’s biographer writes that she sparked a accidental revolution. It’s all fake: How the leaked call between Taylor Swift and Kanye West exposes the artifice of celebrity culture 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Ray's biographer Andrew Robinson recalls visiting the director's flat to find him "discussing the exact kind of button required by one of his costume designs with a member of his production team". Satyajit Ray's artifice and honesty set him apart from other film directors 2013-07-22T19:00:01Z It also included helping her towards the Oscar he was never able to win, according to one of his biographers, Melvyn Bragg. Burton diaries' passion and shame 2012-08-15T11:56:58Z Beckett had a reputation for shunning biographers, but Bair found him obliging, if prone to mysterious disappearances and flashes of pique. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Portraits of and interviews with women making strides across all industries and disciplines, from corporate executives to a chemical engineer, a biographer to a beekeeper. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Los Angeles Graffiti to Korean Art 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Nobody knew it existed — though his two daughters, one of his biographers and a couple of conservators had long known that something was there. Art That Was Hiding in Plain Sight 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Since then he has been exceptionally lucky in his biographers. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Pleasure is a challenge for a literary biographer: Pain reads much better as a block to creative expression, but happiness and comfort can be just as destructive to the work ethic. Beholding Virginia Woolf Through the Women in Her Life 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z “You see there are so many Frosts,” said Jay Parini, a Frost biographer who was not involved with the project. Volume of Robert Frost’s Letters Renews Debate About His Character 2014-02-05T01:51:30Z Jesse Norman, a Tory MP and recent biographer of Burke, calls him the father of conservatism. Freedom fighter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Even his loyal biographer, Michael Ignatieff, was compelled to remark on his over-the-top Anglophilia. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z Wendy Leigh, a Bowie biographer quoted here, says Bowie’s early manager Ken Pitt was “madly in love” with his client, “and David used that.” In a Bowie Oral History, a Glimpse of How Others Saw the Faker 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z For the biographer, this is precisely the theme of “The Castle”, an unfinished novel that Mr Stach calls Kafka’s most brilliant work, written two years before he died of tuberculosis in 1924, aged 40. A closer look at the young Kafka 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z On the last day Shields saw Vonnegut, the novelist instructed his biographer to look up Kurt Vonnegut in the dictionary. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z Tomalin, the esteemed English biographer of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and others, writes briskly and sensitively here of her own life. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z “He was very proud to have a biographer.” Jann Wenner and His Biographer Have a Falling Out 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Kids rarely grow up dreaming of of becoming a literary biographer, and Bailey, an Oklahoma City native and Tulane University graduate, first hoped to write fiction. ‘Philip Roth’: Blake Bailey’s story behind the story arrives 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z The biographer writes of what happened soon thereafter: The Odd Factual Gaps in Michael Grandage’s “Genius” 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z He died at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. His biographer, Olivier Minne, announced the death but did not cite a specific cause. Louis Jourdan, who epitomized Gallic charm in Hollywood movies, dies at 93 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z He was found with a partly-eaten apple, and many biographers have posited it was laced with cyanide. The True Story of The Imitation Game 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Every biographer faces the challenge of portraying and deciphering a subject’s parents — their history, their mythic resonance throughout the subject’s life. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Brands is a distinguished Texas historian, biographer and author of 2008’s “Traitor to his Class,” a biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 30 books for spring reading 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z A novel about people and relationships repeatedly raked over by biographers — not to mention endlessly mythologized by the players themselves — can’t help but replicate certain tropes. ‘Vanessa and Her Sister,’ by Priya Parmar 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Brady, the biographer, said that Joan was an observant Jew, as was her husband. For Bobby Fischer, The Drama Won?t Die 2010-07-23T20:25:00Z He was, in the words of his friend, future law partner, and eventual biographer William H. Herndon, “crazy as a loon.” Did Abraham Lincoln’s bromance alter the course of American history? 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z As a run-up to Heart’s induction on April 18, Heart instigators Ann and Nancy Wilson perform an all-acoustic show and converse with their biographer, Charles R. Cross, at 7:30 p.m. Wilson sisters go acoustic before Heart’s induction 2013-04-04T22:40:27Z Many biographers struggle to deal with this meeting between two of the titans of music history. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z “I have to be seen to be believed,” the queen of England remarked, according to her most recent biographer, Sally Bedell Smith. Queen Elizabeth II Sets a Style Standard 2012-06-01T16:59:27Z A biographer’s ingenuity, and certainly Bailey’s, is to mold mere chronology — a heap of undifferentiated facts and events — into more than trajectory: into coherent theme. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Jean’s brother Teddy, in his far weightier memoir “True Compass,” has already worked this ground, as have scores of biographers, but Jean has a few new stories of her own. Jean Kennedy Smith Remembers Growing Up Kennedy 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z But she was also feisty and mischievous: her jaunty biographer, Valerie Grove, has turned up at least one incident involving Kaye and sneezing powder at the boarding school she loathed. So Much to Tell by Valerie Grove 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z If we think about them at all, most of us probably imagine that biographers and historians happily toil away in sanctified destitution, untroubled by the cares of this world. These books are brought to you with the help of Uncle Sam. 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Lee biographer Charles Shields chronicled the evolution of the book, naming “Watchman” and a second draft titled “Atticus” in his 2006 bestseller, “Mockingbird.” What Harper Lee’s attorney doesn’t say in an op-ed is revealing 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z As Austen remarks with shrewd sarcasm in Mansfield Park, "the enthusiasm of a woman's love is beyond even a biographer's". The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Roth is also in regular touch with Blake Bailey, whom he appointed as his official biographer and who has already amassed 1,900 pages of notes for a book expected to be half that length. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Either way, copyright control confers no legal right of "authorization" for a biographer's work – there is no requirement to obtain permission from him or his heirs, beyond copyright permissions to quote authentic words. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z If anything, the author overdoes it, parsing too many chronologies and splitting too many hairs with previous Wright biographers. Review | A look at the forces — and tragedies — that shaped Frank Lloyd Wright 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Roth also is cooperating with award-winning biographer Blake Bailey on a book about his life. Philip Roth says he's done writing 2012-11-09T22:05:12Z Most biographers suck on college years as if they were marrow bones; that’s the time when, as Paterno knew so well, personalities are forged. Books of The Times: ‘Paterno’ by Joe Posnanski, a Biography of the Coach 2012-08-20T16:25:26Z Elizabeth Barrett Browning, according to an early biographer, regarded the poem highly, and a sense of complicity is sustained. Poem of the week: Two in the Campagna by Robert Browning 2010-07-26T09:44:00Z Every type of kid imaginable watched J.P.: the geeks, the bullies, the popular kids, the invisible kids," biographer Bryan Johnston wrote in his book, "J.P. Obituary: "J.P. Patches," Seattle's beloved TV clown 2012-07-23T01:42:03Z It’s a story that’s been told before, including by the Franklin biographer David Ritz. ‘Respect’ Review: Giving a Queen Her Propers 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article omitted a clause that identified “Dickens’s friend and eventual biographer.” Notes From the Book Review Archives 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s a tribute to Brown’s talent as a biographer that he enables the reader to feel empathy for a man who expressed so little for anyone else. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z In fact, the biographer is pretty sure that for most of her life the only torch Margaret carried was a cigarette lighter. Mad, Bad and Difficult to Know: The Life of a Rebel Aristocrat 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z All three are, essentially, collections of essays, talks, reminiscences and reviews held together by their author’s description of himself as a “romantic biographer.” An insider’s tale of how biography works: ‘This Long Pursuit,’ by Richard Holmes 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Though never explicitly mentioned in these essays, he surely knew that he was dying, according to biographer Frances Wilson, because his weight had dropped to “only seven stones,” or 98 pounds. A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z University of Washington music professor and George Gershwin biographer Larry Starr says some key arguments seem settled — for now. Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z “The result,” wrote railroad biographer Christian Wolmar, “was to enable America to be governable as a single nation ... a single country stretching from coast to coast.” Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z She is drawn to decency, cleanliness, sanity, simplicity — these words recur in her work like talismans, when she writes about Edith Wharton or the biographer Quentin Bell. Janet Malcolm, a Withering Critic, in a Nostalgic Key 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “To a certain extent,” his biographer Ernest Simmons writes, “his anxieties mirrored those of all thinking people of the Eighties, this ‘epoch of social stagnation.’ Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z All the supporting characters and narrative layers — the reality TV show, the biographer, the party, the courtroom scenes, the flashbacks within flashbacks, etc. — add only breadth, not depth to a one-joke film. "Greed," a satire about the filthy rich, is as subtle as Steve Coogan's blindingly white teeth 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Lofting’s biographer, Gary D. Schmidt, defensively notes that Doctor Dolittle himself rarely utters a bigoted word. Doctor Dolittle’s Talking Animals Still Have Much to Say 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z But the biographer is still expected to evaluate and expose unsparingly. Petraeus Biography Underscores Ethics Questions for Authors 2012-11-14T00:36:11Z There is much debate among biographers and musicologists about Beethoven’s level of hearing at various points in his career. Singing, and Signing, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in Los Angeles 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z “Kierkegaard in his journals did not talk only to reveal but also to conceal,” Joakim Garff, another of his biographers, observed. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z After TS Eliot's death in 1965, Valerie became his devoted executor, editing his poems and letters for publication and steadfastly refusing to cooperate with would-be biographers, in keeping with the poet's last wishes. Valerie Eliot, widow of TS Eliot, dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:55:00Z His biographer, Christopher Frayling, confirmed the death but did not cite a cause. Ken Adam, who made Bond villain lairs and ‘Dr. Strangelove’ War Room, dies at 95 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z “I hate the rustle of skirts and giggles in the corridors of time—and no biographer will ever catch a glimpse of my private life.” The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z “I knew this phrase ‘official biographer’ would be tacked on to it,” he once told an interviewer, “and therefore it would be assumed that it would contain an element, or even a dominance, of apologia.” Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies at 78 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Jamison is the first biographer who isn’t afraid of Lowell; neither tarnishing his monumental reputation nor admitting that an identification with his insanity intimidates her. How much did Robert Lowell's manic-depression affect his poetry? A new biography tries to find the answer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z No matter what people think of Valerie she left a mark on history, and biographers need to chronicle the actions of such people. ArtsBeat: A Sad and Remarkable Life: Breanne Fahs Talks About ‘Valerie Solanas’ 2014-04-23T21:34:55Z But Ian Hamilton, his beleaguered biographer — beleaguered by Salinger, who successfully sued to keep Hamilton from quoting from his letters — believes that not long afterward, Salinger suffered a nervous breakdown. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z He had kidney ailments and a heart attack, among other recent health problems, said his biographer, James L. Dickerson. Scotty Moore, guitarist on Elvis Presley’s groundbreaking Sun Sessions, dies at 84 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z For would-be biographers, Orson Welles is the colossus on the horizon that grows larger — and more incomprehensible — the nearer you approach. ‘Orson Welles was fundamentally insecure as an actor’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Richard Holmes once compared the biographer's task to snooping on a dinner party where the guests are permanently out of earshot; Bassett brings us right to the table, but seems anxious about offending the host. In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller by Kate Bassett – review 2012-12-12T08:00:01Z However, many biographers say that Fitzgerald also didn’t want her to, although this is a subject of some dispute. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z In “The Magician,” Toibin seeks to grasp the entirety of Mann’s life and times, the way a biographer might, and he does so quite neatly. Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Born in 1873, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette — whose more than 80 volumes include “Gigi” — had one of those lives that make biographers giddy. Review: ‘Colette’ and One Woman’s Lust for Life 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z There are only so many notes for a biographer to hit: his intense friendships with Wagner and Lou Salome, the intellectual it-girl of her time, muse to Rilke and Freud. A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Which is less funny than the real line he came out with, as his biographer has it: "I should try and interpose my own body." Carrington: what a carry-on 2010-09-02T08:00:00Z Frustratingly for his biographer, specifics are not part of Heidl’s repertoire. A Novel Based on the True Story of a Con Man and His Ghostwriter 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Hemingway’s outsize life and controversial achievement are a magnet to biographers, and Dearborn is the first woman to join their company. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z His subject is the life of print, from birth to its current death throes, though like most artists he’s not an objective biographer. Art in Review: CARTER MULL: ?The Day?s Specific Dreams? 2011-05-12T21:00:18Z What we need now, in any case, is not another celebrity biographer but an investigative journalist who will pry open the tiara casing around the Firm and expose its workings once and for all. Review | Before Harry and Meghan, the Windsor sisters stirred the pot. A new book delves into their story. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Drawing on a trove of new documents, Marshall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, notes parallels between Bishop’s published and private writing, and writes frankly about her alcoholism and central love affair. Paperback Row 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Ms. Picardie, a British writer, had her own potshots for the other biographers. Books Of Style: Three Books About Coco Chanel 2011-12-02T20:51:43Z He never married; he never cooperated with biographers; his letters were terse and unrevealing. ArtsBeat: Anna Nicole, Jimi Hendrix and Handel in London 2011-02-15T18:00:32Z McNamara will also be interviewing Sherry Lansing, former CEO of Paramount and the first woman to head a film studio, and her biographer, Stephen Galloway. The book prizes are coming! The book festival is coming! 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Norman Sherry, his official biographer, spent 30 years trying to pin him down – and ended up hopelessly floundering; as he put it, "a burnt out case". Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z Perhaps there is a demand to become autobiographers and biographers as resistance against a machine and a society that would otherwise shape our stories for us. Your Data Are Not Your Life Story 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z This correspondent has officially been outed as James Campbell, a biographer of James Baldwin and a longtime editor at the magazine. Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The Washington Post mentioned the gay angle in a gossip column, citing a biographer who was writing a book on Forbes. Meet two activists who brought sweeping change to the gay rights movement As for Franklin, who also is the subject of the new biography "Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin" by acclaimed music biographer David Ritz being published Oct. Aretha Franklin shows how to sing the 'Great Diva Classics' 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z The historian, biographer and author, most recently, of “The Square and the Tower” owns books by people who have insulted him in print: “I do research before taking vengeance.” Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Fittingly, it has been hard for biographers to figure out who this chronicler of the undermined self really was. Caleb Crain: The Hectic Career of Stephen Crane 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z “It was a sort of last gamble,” Michael Peppiatt, an art historian, biographer and friend of Bacon, said in a telephone interview. A Writer’s Deathbed Portrait of Francis Bacon 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The dilemma for any biographer who, like Clay, has had extensive access to their subject is how much to quote. Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend by Catrine Clay 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z What I am looking at is a biographer's dream. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z Deborah Solomon is an art critic and biographer who is currently writing a biography of Jasper Johns. Heading Upstairs With Roy Lichtenstein 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Giorgio Vasari, the Renaissance biographer, described Piero as living “more like a beast than a man.” A Renaissance Master Finally Gets a Showcase 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z It offered much light but little heat, and at the end of the day, Stephen Walsh, a noted Stravinsky biographer, bemoaned the lack of argumentativeness. ArtsBeat: 'The Rite of Spring' Still Grist for Discussion 2012-10-28T19:54:43Z Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven 'owes its success to cigarettes'Band biographer Charles R Cross claims that radio DJs only played the now classic song because it was the "perfect length" for a cigarette break. Led Zeppelin: a beginner's guide 2012-10-11T14:30:00Z The biographer Jonathan Bate suggests that the "Dark Lady" of the Sonnets may well have been Florio's wife. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z Until these materials were made available to researchers, the portrait that Roosevelt had cultivated during his life, one largely accepted by his biographers, was of a man gilded with optimism, unflappable, self-composed, self-confident. Franklin Roosevelt’s Story Is Worth Telling Again and Again 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Zehme bridled at being identified as a celebrity biographer, although most of the people he profiled had been famous long before he wrote about them. Bill Zehme, Author With a Knack for Humanizing the Famous, Dies at 64 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z All biographers face the task of wrangling the unruly particulars and generally undramatic shape of a life and a career into a coherent narrative. film: Anti-Biopics Series at Anthology Film Archives 2010-07-09T07:25:00Z She has found an affectionate champion in British biographer Claire Harman, whose lively and exhaustively researched “Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart” arrives on the 200th anniversary of Charlotte’s birth. Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z This was an example, his biographer claimed, of Dr. Johnson’s turn-the-other-cheek philosophy of “subservience.” Letters to the Editor 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Consider Oliver Stone, one of our more prolific biographers. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z His collection features works by many of golf’s most prominent writers, players, historians, architects and biographers, dating back hundreds of years. R&A gifted world's biggest collection of golf books 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Masters, the biographer, and Jay, the cop, offer various tentative answers: Nilsen’s needs for attention and control, a Freudian link in his youth between love and death. ‘Des’ Review: Depravity, Brought to You by David Tennant 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z To have readers, a biographer simply has to gun it. Kitty Kelley's Oprah dissection a brave opus 2010-04-23T09:39:00Z If Jack London attracts biographers it is probably because he led the kind of life they can only imagine. 'Wolf': The fantastic true-life story of Jack London 2010-05-26T23:58:00Z He toyed for years with whether to allow a biographer access to his papers, his friends and himself, accustomed as he was to so many layers of secrecy, especially in his own life. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z I'm quite amused, though, and sometimes frustrated, when someone ends up with the wrong biographer. Alan Hollinghurst: 'The Booker can drive people mad' 2012-05-19T23:05:49Z “I was astounded by Jimmy’s musicianship,” Taylor told biographer Ritz. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88 Luce was not told she was in the presence of a would-be biographer. ‘Price of Fame,’ a Biography of Clare Boothe Luce 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Melissa McCarthy earned a lead actress nomination for her role as Israel, a biographer who started forging letters from literary legends to earn money after she fell on hard times. 8 books that inspired this year's Oscar-nominated films 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z There is nothing of significance in her book that the small army of Wilson biographers and scholars of the Progressive era have not been narrating and chewing over since his death in 1924. Woodrow Wilson Achieved a Lot. So Why Is He So Scorned? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z "He could have taken a job as a waiter or a clerk or done something in exchange for pay, the way that almost everyone in the world is expected to do," writes British biographer A.N. 'Hitler': the mystery of the F?hrer's appeal 2012-04-11T22:26:08Z How else is a biographer to bring that individual – a real individual, not a fictional one – back to literary life on the page? Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z “His passionate interest in the visual arts and in music cannot be overestimated,” said the Beckett biographer James Knowlson, who gave one of the many sold-out festival talks. Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z Lee is an important biographer who has written scrupulous lives of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather and Penelope Fitzgerald. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z The Thatchers were comfortable middle class rather than rich and Margaret did kindnesses to the struggling divorcee who lived next door, as both biographers confirm she often did for individuals she knew. Margaret Thatcher biography reveals passions across the years 2013-04-21T19:41:48Z In the 1980s, Jeffrey Meyers, a Hemingway biographer and professor at the University of Colorado, filed a Freedom of Information request for the FBI's file on Hemingway. Ken Burns' vicious Hemingway smear: PBS series totally ignores writer's lifelong leftist politics 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z According to his biographers Plato and Xenophon, Socrates did not just search for the meaning of life, but the meaning of our own lives. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z "I wouldn't quite panic yet," Christopher Andersen, a royal biographer, told Fox News. Sorry, Charlie: Palace can't get big-name artists to perform at King Charles’ coronation yet 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z It is an irony lost on no critic or would-be biographer of Lee’s that the press now treats her as Scout and Jem once treated Boo Radley. My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z A few are current or former employees of The New York Times, including Sam Tanenhaus, a former editor of The Times Book Review and Buckley’s authorized biographer. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z With Mr. Welser-Möst’s appointment, Mr. Rosenberg turned from biographer into pariah, castigating the conductor — while often sparing the players — in years of relentlessly harsh reviews. Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra Head to Lincoln Center Festival 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z As such, they’re a gift to the popular press and a boon to biographers. A Life of Cy Twombly Brings a Poet’s Eye to the Artist’s Mythic Work 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Edmund Morris was a prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt, but the chance to write about a living president led him to take unusual license. Petraeus affair and the role of biographers 2012-11-14T18:16:03Z Gould’s first biographer, Geoffrey Payzant, described him as an “exceedingly superior person, friendly and considerate” and added that he “has found out how he wants to live his life and is doing just that.” Books to Kindle Children’s Curiosity About Classical Music 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z And it is in describing the domestic drama of Twain and his girls that Mr. Shelden most clearly reveals himself as a dangerously oversympathetic biographer and invites closer scrutiny of Twain’s last adventures. 2010-02-11T08:05:00Z Murtha also unearthed biographer's gold when she came across a collector who was looking to sell several Super 8 films of Gentry performing in the years after “Ode to Billie Joe” made her a star. New '33 1/3' book explores life of mysterious chanteuse Bobbie Gentry 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Jenkins, the Queen biographer, said he was sure “Bohemian Rhapsody” would have been a hit regardless of its title, but Mercury’s final choice was better. Was Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Originally ‘Mongolian Rhapsody’? 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z More than most biographers, Ackroyd emphasizes his subject’s German phase, and makes a good case for doing so. Alfred Hitchcock: ‘A superb fantasist of fear’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The biographer must then try to grasp their impact on his subject. An insider’s tale of how biography works: ‘This Long Pursuit,’ by Richard Holmes 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The acclaimed poet and biographer is to make his first venture into children's books after striking a deal to write a sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story Treasure Island, first published in 1883. Treasure Island 2 2010-03-26T00:15:00Z I'm not sure I agree with this man, his biographer, suggesting that the fact none of Turner's numerous shipwrecks is of a steamship might have something to do with his preference for steam over sail. The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution – review 2013-04-26T22:30:01Z “It’s impossible to read about Simone de Beauvoir’s life without thinking of your own,” the biographer Hazel Rowley wrote in her foreword to the English translation of Beauvoir’s “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter.” Before She Loved Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir Loved Zaza 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The English biographer Claire Tomalin’s memoir, “A Life of My Own,” is on one level a phlegmatic tour of a fruitful life. An Award-Winning Biographer’s Latest Subject: Herself 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Wisely, sometimes brilliantly, Brown skips over much of the familiar material, instead training her gaze on the blanks in the record and emphasizing experiences a biographer might scant. ‘The Stargazer’s Sister’ review: What could a woman find in the sky? 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Gallery Books announced Tuesday that the memoir, currently untitled, will be co-authored by celebrity biographer Wendy Leigh and is scheduled for release next year. Shirley Jones memoir expected next year 2012-08-07T20:02:13Z Valuable, too, is the biographer’s inclusion of Calder’s interdisciplinary performance projects, integral to his mind-set, but ephemeral and now largely forgotten. Review | ‘Calder: The Conquest of Space’ paints a stunning portrait of an ever-evolving artist 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Few, for that matter, present so twitchy and evasive a target for the intrepid biographer. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z Mr. Morris, Pulitzer’s biographer, maintains that the strike failed; the concession meant little to the publishers, in part because they gave the newsboys credit, not cash, for unsold papers. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z “This will absorb my life,” he told a biographer, solemnly reflecting on his fateful decision to devote himself to public policy. Newt Gingrich and the Dawn of a Toxic Political Era 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z The Sun termed it a “royal rumble,” quoting a biographer of the royal family who questioned whether the couple would be invited to Charles’s coronation in May. ‘Harry & Meghan’: A Second Serving of Reviews for the Netflix Series 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Presiding from horseback over Europe’s first sizable market of sub-Saharan slaves was Portugal’s Prince Henry, known to history as “the Navigator,” and watching nearby was his official biographer, Gomes Eanes de Zurara. A History of Modernity That Puts Africa at Center Stage 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Pim is not the obvious candidate for the role of Roth biographer. A Timely Biography Traces Joseph Roth’s Accounts of Fascism 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Unusually health-conscious for his era, he had a mere ounce of bourbon in his nightly Old Fashioned, according to his biographer, Scott Eyman. Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for Your Booze Stash 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Robert Caro, the prize-winning biographer of New York municipal builder Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, has taken on men who have both inspired and dismayed him. Petraeus affair and the role of biographers 2012-11-14T18:16:03Z So was Tim O’Brien, executive editor of Bloomberg View and a Trump biographer, who urged journalists to remember that the White House briefing room is “spoon-feeding and Trump is a habitual fabulist.” The traditional way of reporting on a president is dead. And Trump’s press secretary killed it. 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z When Stoppard landed in New York that year he was the toast of the town, as his biographer, Hermione Lee, writes in “Tom Stoppard: A Life.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z And I suppose it is one of those documents that will now be pored over up by a host of biographers. On Ted Hughes's 'Last Letter' to Sylvia Plath 2010-10-11T12:24:00Z Samuel Johnson's biographer James Boswell examined the documents and pronounced them glorious and certainly authentic. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z David is a generous and sympathetic biographer, even if she underlines some points too heavily. Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David - review 2013-02-16T08:01:01Z According to Evan Thomas, a Robert Kennedy biographer, it showed that Johnson “wanted to seize the reins of power and show the world he was in charge.” ‘American Dynasties: The Kennedys’ Review: A Striving in the Blood 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z A historian and biographer, he writes with “an especially supple sense of scale,” Adina Hoffman notes in her review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Claire Tomalin, the esteemed biographer of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, among others, tells her own story in this memoir. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The accident changed his appearance, and many biographers assumed Clift felt ruined by it and, so, drank more. Montgomery Clift: the untold story of Hollywood's misunderstood star 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Although Albers’s ability to put us right there is impressive, I think I prefer a biographer who stands at a slightly more discreet distance from the subject. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z "I never wanted to assume we'd keep getting checks," he told his biographer earlier this year. Herb Reed of vocal group The Platters dead at 83 2012-06-05T18:12:43Z While not as satisfying as Hammett's novels, is a must for enthusiasts, with plenty of his trademark snappy dialogue as well as a fascinating commentary by Hammett's granddaughter Julie M Rivett and biographer Richard Layman. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-11-23T08:00:02Z Unlike so many literary marriages, theirs lasted 55 years, and after Stone’s death Janice remained her husband’s helpmate and his biographer’s enabler. Review | An unvarnished look at the troubled life of novelist Robert Stone 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z He told a biographer that his dream for America was that it be allowed to return to its best self, which he put in the Midwest in about 1955. Roger Ailes, architect of conservative TV juggernaut Fox News, is dead at 77 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z What the biographer brings is added value, sparkle, an entirely original way of looking at the subject. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z Born into British aristocracy and a daughter of a well-known politician and a biographer, Fraser’s early years provide material as vivid and character-rich as her popular histories. Antonia Fraser’s ‘My History’: The biographer and mom of six looks back 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Hollis – like Thomas, a poet, an editor and now a biographer – tells all of this very well, his account beautifully structured by place, year and season. Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:07Z Michael Holroyd: I like to think that biographers can sometimes be messengers between past people and the present. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-26T00:05:44Z Objectivity is impossible when writing a life, Judith Thurman, Colette’s biographer, once said. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z In an interview this week, the curator elaborated on his stance, saying he wanted to leave the judgments on character to historians and biographers. The Met Walks a Fine Line on Lagerfeld: Judge the Clothes, Not the Man 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Previous biographers have attempted this by quoting Shepard’s cascading soliloquies at length; Winters rarely excerpts more than a line or two. The real Sam Shepard behind the man we think we know 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “To me, Reagan is the anti-Trump,” Lou Cannon, the former Washington Post reporter and Reagan biographer who appears in the documentary, said last week. Was Reagan a Precursor to Trump? A New Documentary Says Yes 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The small group of patrons who bought his works supported him to an uncommon degree as he drifted between their homes, moving "a hundred times" according to his first biographer. Watteau: The Drawings; Esprit et V?rit?: Watteau and His Circle ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:24Z “I’ve gotten some pretty bad reviews along with the good ones from Chuck,” Lemmon told his biographer in 2000, “but he’s always been honest and constructive.” Charles Champlin, a film and book critic for the Los Angeles Times, dies at 88 The then Prince of Wales" had been one of the Marguerite's many lovers, as detailed in her "1934 memoir, which Rose describes as 'an essential source previously overlooked by Royal biographers'. Book reviews roundup: The Rosie Project, The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder and Lost, Stolen or Shredded 2013-04-19T18:19:01Z I sometimes fear learning too much about my idols: No man is a hero to his valet, or to a rigorous biographer. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Her biographer, Larry Ward, confirmed the death but did not provide a cause. Noel Neill, actress who played Superman’s love interest, Lois Lane, dies at 95 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z As she declares in one of this book’s endnotes, a biographer should be not just a historian “but also a novelist and a snoop.” Review | ‘The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith’ toppled the standardized Great Man tradition of biography 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z This is the first time he’s given access to a biographer, we are told, in some 25 years. Books of The Times: ‘Bruce,’ a Springsteen Biography, by Peter Ames Carlin 2012-11-06T13:00:00Z It's hard to imagine a more experienced biographer making the same decision – or sharing his turn of phrase. JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner by Richard Marson – review 2013-03-22T16:30:04Z You’re right, there are many biographies of Fitzgerald and this might not be the easiest one to get hold of but I am interested in it because Mizener was Fitzgerald’s first biographer. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z She is a strangely passive-aggressive biographer — too timid to analyze Brown’s life in any large and meaningful way, yet presumptuous enough to speak for her. A Sleepy Biography for the Author of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Stubbs does not dwell on the possibility, often indulged by earlier biographers, that Swift might have secretly had children with these women. Review | Jonathan Swift: Not (entirely) the misanthrope you thought you knew 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z "His own real remedy was to hurl himself into speeches or arguments," his biographer Michael Foot wrote. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z According to Keaton biographer Marion Meade, Ms. Tovar once said that the comedian had been drinking excessively and nearly drowned her in a scene filmed in a water tank. Lupita Tovar, actress in Spanish-language version of ‘Dracula,’ dies at 106 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Of this work, the painter Giovanni Baglione, Caravaggio’s contemporary biographer, wrote that “the lower classes made a huge fuss” over the two grubby pilgrims. Cultured Traveler: Rome?s Soft Spot for Caravaggio 2010-05-28T14:26:00Z Curated by biographer Paul Gorman, it includes notebooks and sketches alongside paintings and photography. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z "He was profoundly a Victorian gentleman, or tried to be," says Twain biographer Ron Powers. Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z Sam Weller, Bradbury's biographer, describes the FBI investigation in his book The Bradbury Chronicles. Ray Bradbury investigated for communist sympathies 2012-08-30T11:45:03Z They're rarely central to an artist's career, and are usually neglected by biographers seeking the bigger picture. Readers recommend: foreign language versions ? the results 2011-03-10T17:26:30Z In a June column, Trump biographer Timothy L. O’Brien recalls watching the Billy Wilder movie almost 20 years ago with the real estate dealer aboard his private plane. Analysis | The newly relevant relationship between Trump and ‘Sunset Blvd.’ 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Otherwise you run the risk of wallowing in a sea of facts and never really diving down deep enough anywhere to get you closer to your subject than previous biographers have managed. Paperback Q&A: Tim Jeal on Explorers of the Nile 2012-07-10T13:33:42Z Twenty years from now the conversations may be easier, some grief eased, including that of the biographer. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z The queen made an effort to learn from the experience, says royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith, commissioning private polls and focus groups about the monarchy. Diana and the media: She used them, and they used her. Until the day she died. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z As one of his biographers, Hans Trefousse, once put it: “If you impeach for reasons that are not the real reasons, you really can’t win.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Melville’s years on ships sowed what his biographer Newton Arvin called “a settled hatred of external authority.” Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z If you were a biographer you would turn to Oz's extraordinary 2002 memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, for the tangled roots of the tale. Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz | Book review 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z "It's almost impossible to imagine," says Orwell's biographer, the novelist and critic DJ Taylor. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z The first was last night's annual Housman lecture on the name and nature of poetry, given this year by Housman biographer Richard Perceval Graves. Poetically speaking at the Hay festival 2010-06-02T13:07:00Z Hilburn is not an exciting writer, though Simon chose him as his biographer. Review | Paul Simon: The musical genius who gave voice to the sound of silence 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z According to his biographers, however, Laval dreamed of doing something with his life that would expand the mission of the church more meaningfully. The strange history of how the Catholic Church declared beaver to be a fish — at least during Lent 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z In the case of a chronic memoirist like Didion, it's this exact space that presents the greatest opportunity for a biographer to tell the stories that, to paraphrase Didion, allowed her stories to live. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Ron Chernow, the Hamilton biographer whose 2004 book, “Alexander Hamilton,” inspired the musical, also declined to bring up the currency redesign. ‘Hamilton’ Is a Must-See for Treasury Chiefs, Too 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Beyond that cozy relationship, Rivers chose her biographers with a sure sense of the cultural wave. Movie Review: Taking Joan Rivers Seriously 2010-05-13T15:28:00Z And since good biography must critically examine its subject's reputation, biographers are destined to find themselves on a collision course with those looking to protect the image of the subject. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z “I don’t want you to rehabilitate me,” Roth told Bailey, his appointed biographer. 10 books to read in April 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z First up, The Wall Street Journal reports that Margaret Thatcher’s biographers are unhappy with her portrayal – by no less a grand dame than Meryl Streep — in “The Iron Lady.” Carpetbagger Blog: What Do 'Dragon Tattoo' and 'Iron Lady' Have in Common? Ask the Grousers 2011-12-23T13:30:35Z Among those who paid spoken tribute to Scott were his former sidemen; his biographer, David Ritz; executives from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the Jazz Foundation of America; and the producer Hal Willner. Jimmy Scott Honored at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z And it wasn't just his insistence that his photograph not appear on book covers — he routinely sued biographers, and in one case appealed to the Supreme Court to stop an author from quoting him. 'J.D. Salinger: A Life': Kenneth Slawenski's biography of a reluctant genius 2011-01-22T00:07:54Z And a renowned presidential biographer is weighing in with a judgment that makes Mr. Bush’s gentleman’s Cs at Yale look like the honor roll. Review: ‘Bush,’ a Biography as Scathing Indictment 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Tomalin has a biographer’s gift for carefully husbanding her resources, of consistently playing out just enough string. An Award-Winning Biographer’s Latest Subject: Herself 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z His 2004 book, “Chronicles: Volume One,” was hailed for its creativity but called “a pack of lies” by Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin because of the writer’s propensity for altering or twisting the facts. Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Rhys destroyed many letters; she tore sections from journals; throughout her life she maintained, in the words of Miranda Seymour, her latest biographer, a “maddening discretion.” The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z The writers who signed the Authors United letter include bestselling novelists, award-winning biographers, Pulitzer Prize winners and MacArthur "Genius" fellows. Authors United: Who signed? 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z The biographer as detective, as it were, wandering the Bates home in “Psycho,” searching for the body of the mother, the all-revealing trauma. The Many Selves of Alfred Hitchcock, Phobias, Fetishes and All 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z "His vanity, though child-like, was monstrous," wrote his biographer, Philip Ziegler, "his ambition unbridled." Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z Are the nonfiction excerpts — from presidential historians, Lincoln biographers, Civil War chroniclers — real or fake? Colson Whitehead on George Saunders’s Novel About Lincoln and Lost Souls 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Previous biographers have hinted that the sexagenarian queen was smitten by the buccaneer in his 30s. Smart redhead 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Harrod is the perfect biographer for such a complex and gifted man. The Last Sane Man by Tanya Harrod – review 2013-04-12T08:59:01Z She is a studious and generous biographer, embracing the philosophy of the Crunch gym chain — “No judgments” — when approaching her subject. Review: ‘Not Pretty Enough’ Charts the Rise of Helen Gurley Brown the Sex Guru 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z “His story is completely different from mine,” he told a biographer in 2006. Generalise, don't specialise: why focusing too narrowly is bad for us 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, Bailey — who has since enjoyed success as a celebrated biographer — taught 8th grade English at New Orleans' Lusher Middle School. Publisher pauses new Philip Roth biography as author, Blake Bailey, is accused of rape and grooming 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z This is a text that sings the writing life — of the existentialists, of their critics and of their biographers. The existentialists come alive (over cocktails) in Sarah Bakewell's 'At the Existentialist Cafe' 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Sandra Spanier, a Hemingway researcher and English professor at Penn State, has reviewed the latest release of documents and said they will help biographers and historians create a fuller portrait of Hemingway. Items from Hemingway's Cuba home go to JFK Library 2013-05-06T21:27:08Z The place that would become Dave Thomas Circle “isn’t necessarily a mistake on a map,” says Berg, the L’Enfant biographer, “but it might as well be a wrinkle in space-time.” What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle. 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z We also got an esteemed literary biographer turning her lens on herself, a sprawling, fresh look at New York’s postwar art world and cleareyed advice about how to die. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z An authority he has yet to consult, though not for want of trying, is Robert Caro, the biographer who has spent nearly 40 years chronicling Johnson’s life. Bryan Cranston Is Playing Lyndon Johnson on Broadway 2014-02-05T20:10:11Z This book shows how Victoria’s girlish naughtiness turned into a regal, willful, complex nature that other biographers have tended to simplify. Review: ‘Victoria the Queen’ Delves Into Her Epic Reign 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z This is brilliant casting, and the journalists, biographers, colleagues and kin invited on camera to fill out the story have been judiciously chosen. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z It is also his first volume since Chernow became a household name — a claim few scholarly biographers can make. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The late Tom Wicker’s biography of Nixon, called “One of Us,” is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn’t expected to feel. ArtsBeat: Thomas Mallon on the Fact and Fiction of 'Watergate' 2012-02-22T16:00:18Z Mr. Teachout, The Wall Street Journal’s drama critic, is an Armstrong biographer, and Mr. Thompson — who appeared in productions of “Satchmo” at the Long Wharf Theater and Shakespeare & Company — certainly knows these characters. Theater Review: Louis Armstrong Reminisces in ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf’ 2014-03-21T00:30:14Z The same habit of reverence that doomed his artwork to bland imitation served him well as a biographer. How Giorgio Vasari Invented Art History as We Know It 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z I have only a superficial knowledge of Keynes's economic theory, but as the biographer of his wife, Lydia Lopokova, I do know about his marriage. Niall Ferguson should know that JM Keynes's marriage was happy – with plenty of sex 2013-05-06T12:13:56Z While clearly respectful of Foster’s legacy, Mr. Kirwan does make one leap, intimating that he was gay, a conclusion no biographer has reached. Theater Review: ‘Hard Times: An American Musical’ at the Cell Theater 2012-09-21T00:54:23Z Mr. Gilbert confessed to some trepidation when he was confronted with the chance to pick up, as the prime minister’s official biographer, where Randolph Churchill had left off. Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies at 78 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Before she played a note of Ives, she asked the audience to sing hymns under the supervision of Jan Swafford, an esteemed Ives biographer. Music Review: The Violinist Hilary Hahn at the Stone - Review 2011-10-12T21:22:30Z I loved the pattern because it reminded me of African scarification, which in some ways is an external biographer, telling us who you are married to or what group you belong to. Alison Saar on Transforming Outrage Into Art 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z This first installment, which covers 1941 to 1966, ends with the accident, after which Dylan looked different, according to his biographer, wrote different songs, sang differently. Review | ‘The Double Life of Bob Dylan’ is the definitive account of a shape-shifting genius’s early years 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z “I trust you have been getting all the windy emails I’ve been sending you,” Roth wrote to his biographer in correspondence shared by Bailey with The Associated Press. Blake Bailey’s 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Even , imbued with its high moral authority, attempted to discredit my book while championing an obliging biographer who once sought to whitewash my grandfather. The cry of my conscience about my family's Nazi collaboration 2011-01-12T08:30:01Z Perhaps Dawn French was actually right, and an unauthorised biographer is less of a white knight and more of a volunteer sewage worker. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z Susan Bernofsky, Walser’s biographer and the translator of seven of his books, folds and unfolds a white cloth napkin, serenely, for the duration of the show, which lasts a little under an hour. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z And she has an unexpected nickname for Robert Moses, who ravaged neighborhoods as the “master builder,” or master “Power Broker,” in the words of Robert A. Caro, his biographer. Where Winter’s Silver Skates Warmed the Soul 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Bakewell’s approach is enticing and unusual: She is not an omniscient author acting as critic, biographer or tour guide. Review: In Sarah Bakewell’s ‘At the Existentialist Café,’ Nothingness Has a Certain Something 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Already, a biographer of the couple has said that Bonham Carter is insufficiently beautiful and West insufficiently Welsh or charismatic. Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter: being Burton and Taylor 2013-07-13T08:00:00Z As Henson’s biographer recounts, when asked if the show would interfere with other performing engagements, Kermit joked, “We’ll do anything for money.” Remember When the Muppets Were Subversive? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z I also think Mizener is one of the best writers among his biographers. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z The mayor's clear-eyed biographer, Andrew Gimson, describes him as a man who requires and thinks himself entitled to more than one female bedfellow in his life. Can 'Bonking Boris' have his cake and eat it? 2010-07-20T10:30:00Z The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer tells revisits the life of Abraham Lincoln. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z His affinity for young people is not confined to his books, and Salinger's biographers closely track his history of intense attachments to teens, from Oona O'Neill in the 1940s to Joyce Maynard in the 1970s. New biography claims more Salinger books due out 2013-08-25T17:08:53Z Bowie biographer Marc Spitz is slowly losing hope that the singer will make a comeback, even as peers such as Lou Reed and Iggy Pop keep recording and touring. David Bowie's new makeover: Rock 'n' roll recluse 2010-03-01T23:32:00Z Or just the resigned sigh of a biographer who can no more get a handle on his subject than his subject could? Review | In ‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise,’ working-class Archie Leach becomes a Hollywood legend 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Vasari was certainly influential and admired in his own time, but I think for ours he will remain largely a pioneering and highly entertaining biographer and art historian. For the juiciest gossip on Renaissance artists, listen to Giorgio Vasari 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z That analysis, Petty recalled to his biographer, Warren Zanes, “kind of knocked me back. But I realized he was right. It was me singing to me.” The Raw Roots of Tom Petty’s ‘Wildflowers,’ Revealed at Last 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The biographer is as likely to salute “American Pastoral” as to fault such lesser works as “The Great American Novel” and “The Humbling.” ‘Philip Roth’: Blake Bailey’s story behind the story arrives 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z According to Stritch’s biographer, Alexandra Jacobs, her first plan was to unravel her reputation as a lush by finally, at thirty-nine years old, taking up hobbies that were healthy—bicycling, learning to play piano. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z It is a prudent concession to what any biographer of Benjamin must recognize as the infinitely fractal powers of the critic. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z Robert Skidelsky – Keynes' masterly biographer – believes that Lopokova conceived and then miscarried, but I think that assumption is based on a misinterpreted letter. Niall Ferguson should know that JM Keynes's marriage was happy – with plenty of sex 2013-05-06T12:13:56Z Kelly – who is an actor as well as the biographer of Casanova and Beau Brummell – handles theatrical rumour and apocrypha with great care. Mr Foote's Other Leg by Ian Kelly – review 2012-10-05T21:55:04Z The sections about Minervudottir are riddled with crossed out sentences and elliptical fragments; it’s as if we are catching the biographer in the act of dreaming a ghost back into existence. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z With Rossini’s radiant late operas receiving ever more respect and attention, it seems increasingly perverse that Stendhal, his first biographer, loudly preferred his early comic works. Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center 2012-02-05T22:34:44Z Even in letters to close friends, like the historian William S. Wilson, his most astute biographer, Johnson tended to dance around difficult, intimate subjects. ‘Not Nothing’ Tries to Capture the Artist Ray Johnson 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z “I can explain to you in great detail why the White House is where it is, why Dupont Circle is where it is,” says Berg, the L’Enfant biographer. What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle. 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z While at times her identification with her subject — Lowell, it becomes clear, is a kind of hero to Jamison — clouds her critical vision, Jamison is the first biographer to succeed at humanizing this larger-than-life figure. How much did Robert Lowell's manic-depression affect his poetry? A new biography tries to find the answer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The artist’s observant and sympathetic portraiture of simple, often barefoot, country folk in their worn, patched clothes offers persuasive evidence of the humanity of a man whose humility and simplicity were noted by his biographers. Review: Bassano's Pastoral Idyll 2010-04-23T13:25:00Z Below are the highlights of President Clinton’s first 100 days as recorded near the end of her second term, in 2024, by her official biographer, and recovered from a deleted email in 2025. Hillary’s First 100 Days 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Jay Parini, a novelist and Steinbeck biographer who was a close friend of Elaine Steinbeck, said in a recent interview that the material was not as important as earlier Steinbeck documents. Lackluster bidding for Steinbeck's NYC archive 2010-06-23T21:32:00Z With this week’s selection of titles, we put ourselves into the hands of experts: expert storytellers, expert thinkers, expert biographers of expert subjects. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “If you don’t understand that … how will you be my biographer?” The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Now 85, a notable literary biographer turns her critical eye on herself, and the result is an elegant profile in courage and fortitude. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z As royal biographer Andrew Morton told Salon recently, "The twilight of her reign was, I would say, probably her best years." The Windsors outdid themselves in 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z The biographer must know about as much to write 50 pages about an individual as to write 500 pages. 'Lions of the West': A group biography 2011-12-22T00:54:03Z That poses a particular challenge for biographers who set their eyes on just one of them. The fullest biography of Paul McCartney ever 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The biographer Sir Michael Holroyd said: "The wanton destruction of the Kensal Rise Library – its books removed, its history erased – is a gross act of philistinism which will bring lasting shame to all involved." Kensal Rise library stripped in night of books and Twain plaque 2012-05-29T18:51:27Z “Boorish behavior is Murdoch company behavior — boorish behavior as defined by tough-guy behavior,” Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff said in an interview. The fall of Roger Ailes: He made Fox his ‘locker room’ — and now women are telling their stories 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Still, most reviewers have agreed that the portrait she paints of Johnson, the 36th president, was far more empathetic than the one that emerged from his most famous biographer, Robert Caro. Petraeus Biography Underscores Ethics Questions for Authors 2012-11-14T00:36:11Z “All I needed was the courage to be me,” he told his biographer. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88 Her first biographer, Doris Langley Moore, writing in 1933, called that voice “naturalistic, warmly personal in tone, and based, with whatever additives of humor and plot, on recaptured experience.” The Pioneering British Socialist Who Revolutionized Children’s Literature 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Those passions — for sex, for novels, for ideas, for talk, for city life — spill from “Alfred Kazin’s Journals,” edited by his biographer, Richard M. Cook. Books of The Times: A Lifetime of Anxiety and Lust 2011-05-25T22:16:59Z Kai Bird is an excellent biographer but his knowledge of mental illness appears to be sketchy. Letters to the Editor 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z First published in 1970, this autobiography by the English-born author and biographer, who grew up between Ireland, America and Italy, insightfully captures a vanished time and a fading upper-class milieu. New in Paperback: ‘The Browns of California’ and ‘The Far Field.’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z He may have spoken contemptuously of “the prying biographer,” but he expected to have one. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z George Painter, a biographer of Proust, once compared the experience of reading Violet Trefusis’s prose to “being driven at 90 m.p.h. over an ice field, by a driver who knows how to skid for fun.” Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z "There's always been a gap between professional/academic historians and biographers," Mr. Walsh said in an email. ArtsBeat: Caro on Johnson Tops Historians' Poll, but Seward Book Is Close Behind 2012-12-12T21:28:02Z Yet the portrait he builds feels fresh and strong, free of the usual biographers' ruminations on the Murdoch mystique and their love/hate feelings towards him. Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight – review 2013-02-20T07:01:01Z Later, according to the Merrick biographer Howard Kissel, he invited her to his office and cautioned, “I don’t want that silly grin with all those teeth that go back to your ears.” Well, Hello, Dollys! 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z According to his most recent biographer, Philip Norman, his 40th birthday found him growing "increasingly nostalgic about his homeland, pining for British institutions and values he had so angrily spurned". The legacy of John Lennon 2010-09-25T23:33:00Z Even Welles biographer Simon Callow is taking three volumes with it. 'Magician' serves up many tidbits about Orson Welles 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z “Death makes me very angry,” Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, told his biographer, perhaps to explain why he has given nearly half a billion dollars to medical research to halt human aging. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z As she told her biographer, Gérard Mannoni, the inheritors of the true French style — transferred to St. Petersburg by French choreographers — were the Russians. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But as has often been noted by his biographers, Casanova was no Don Giovanni, whose conquests numbered in the thousands. Theater Review: ‘The Giacomo Variations,’ With John Malkovich, at City Center 2013-05-31T18:03:12Z In "Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life," Natalie Dykstra becomes the latest in a string of biographers to ask those questions. 'Clover Adams': a brilliant mind's path into darkness 2012-03-01T00:11:07Z She exerted arbitrary control over productions of the plays and frightened off biographers. Tennessee Williams and the menagerie that made up the life of a legendary playwright One biographer of Ernest Hemingway, Hardwick wrote, seemed so enamored of “his access to the raw materials” that he produced “only an accumulation, a heap.” The Critic Elizabeth Hardwick Was Very Tough on Biographies. Now Here’s One of Her. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z More than other biographers, Ackroyd brings out the contrast between Collins’s serenity — “He was perhaps the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists” — and the poor health that dogged him for much of his life. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In biographer Thomas’ diligent research, he realized that the men got credit for the Yippies while the women weren’t acknowledged. Hippies, radicals, pranksters: Jerry Rubin has a bio and Paul Krassner has our review 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The British biographer and critic Hermione Lee was a good candidate, but the timing was off. Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z The president hires a tabloid reporter as his official biographer, and he soon turns up some secrets that the Donald would rather keep hidden. 11 new Trump books for fans and critics of The Donald 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Faced with Ford's multitudinous fabrications, his biographer Max Saunders rightly concludes that it is a question of "asking less whether what Ford says is true, and more what it means". Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z And while Posner’s sketches of major political figures from Thomas Jefferson to Franklin Roosevelt are often interesting, they do not add to the vast stock of knowledge we owe to their many biographers. Is Donald Trump a Danger to Democracy? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The poems in the book are arranged largely chronologically, which, as Linda Leavell, Moore’s biographer, pointed out, illuminates the progression of her work leading up to the penultimate poem, “An Octopus.” The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z "In much of Europe, unlike North America, there is a societal expectation that authors, as representatives of the intelligentsia, take a prominent public role in debating political and social issues," says Kjærstad's biographer Tara Chace. How will Norway's crime writers respond to the Ut?ya massacre? 2011-07-30T23:06:29Z We biographers believe that every interesting life has a childhood inflection point. Becoming Michael Lewis 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Joe Kennedy was involved in virtually all the history of his time, and his biographer persuasively makes the case that he was the most fascinating member of his large, famous and very formidable family. 10 Best Books of 2012 2012-11-30T16:00:09Z It might be a biographer’s word, too — the essence of a person that drifts out of his or her diaries and letters, the idiosyncratic, unmistakable traces that a biographer pursues in the archives. ‘Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly’ Hunts for Big — and Elusive — Game 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The biographer and journalist, whose latest book is “The Husband Hunters,” avoids thrillers: “I get all the mayhem I want in the newspapers.” Anne de Courcy: By the Book 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z “I can never wear beige because nobody will know who I am,” she once acknowledged to Robert Hardman, the royal biographer. Queen Elizabeth II and the Shape of 20th-Century Power Dressing 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Though their marriage ended in divorce in the early 1970s, Ms. Peyser acknowledged that their discussions about psychology informed her own understanding of motivation, a crucial underpinning of her work as a biographer. Joan Peyser, Bernstein and Gershwin Biographer, Dies at 80 2011-04-25T14:54:51Z At the suggestion of fellow literary biographer James Atlas, Bailey got in touch with Roth. Blake Bailey’s 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z He left behind a distinguished record as a critic, curator and biographer and questions about the fate of one of the art world’s longest awaited volumes, his fourth and final book on Pablo Picasso. John Richardson’s final Picasso book arrives in November 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Only at rare moments does the biographer let Mitchell’s dark side — evident, for example, in how pitiless she can be toward former lovers and spouses — speak for itself. ‘Reckless Daughter’: A Protective Biography of Joni Mitchell 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Nancy Reagan’s unofficial biographer, Kitty Kelley, finally uncovered the big secret: The first lady’s hairstylist had been secretly coloring the president’s gray roots for more than 20 years. Can we talk about the senior citizens running for president and how they try to look younger? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Guinn is fascinating in his use of hindsight, and it allows him a more probing view of his subject than earlier biographers had. Books Of the Times: A New Look at Charles Manson, by Jeff Guinn 2013-08-06T21:46:25Z “Raphael was a very amorous person,” wrote Giorgio Vasari, his first biographer. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z But "Lincoln" stands as his most notable work of historical fiction, vetted and admired by a leading Lincoln biographer, David Herbert Donald, and even cited by the conservative Newt Gingrich as a favorite book. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z The average biographer peers into a Great Man’s mind. A Corporeal History of the 19th Century 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In fact, it was written about a year before the earliest draft of "To Kill a Mockingbird," according to Lee biographer Charles J. Shields. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author Harper Lee will publish second book 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z This memoir, brimming with delightful literary trivia, is a study in how she developed into a top-notch biographer. 13 Books to Watch For in November 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It was a biographer's goldmine, and I shovelled it into the manuscript. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z His wife became the stewardess of his estate, doling out permissions to quote from his work with extreme parsimony and routinely turning away requests from scholars and the dreaded biographers. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z Not for reasons of ego, but to show us really how it is to write a biography, and not to present the biographer as absent. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Art of Writing Biographies 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Virtually anyone whom you might think worth a biography already has two or three to their name, which makes it tricky for biographers to know who to do next. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z And when a biographer’s subject is a 20th-century woman who wants to make her mark in a field hitherto mostly open to men, the question becomes almost alarmingly urgent. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z A biographer, she was often told, was unworthy of the academic career she was pursuing. Learning the Wiles of a Biographer, With Beckett and Beauvoir 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z He published an updated version in 1944 in collaboration with Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg that was packed with newly found information about each photograph. Striking 'Photographs of Abraham Lincoln' gets a modern-day release 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z While working on a book about the actor, the biographer Alexander Larman had a glimpse of screen versions of the Seán O’Casey play Juno and the Paycock, and Chekhov’s work Uncle Vanya. Peter O'Toole less the drunken hell-raiser he made out, says author 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z He has threatened unauthorized biographers, he writes, with “other types of revenge, such as getting beaten up, little accidents, minor and major frights.” Books of The Times: Throwing Mud and Calling It Beautiful 2011-01-11T22:06:40Z I can't think of a biographer of Stravinsky who troubles to return the favour. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z He also quoted Tracy biographer James Curtis, who wrote: “Bowers is full of glib stories and revelations, all cheerfully unverifiable.” Scotty Bowers, ‘male madame to the stars’, dies aged 96 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z What better homage can a novelist pay to a biographer than that? Why Novelize a Novelist's Life? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Who among the journalists and biographers and filmmakers and television producers in Britain has not produced a work about the royals? Another Go for Charles and Di, This Time With Music 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z That larger record includes what Mr. Bigsby, the biographer, called “an Aladdin’s cave” of unpublished writing: novels, stories, poems, essays and even speeches. Inside the Battle for Arthur Miller’s Archive 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z As a biographer, Mr. Smith makes no comparisons with today’s Republican leader, but he sides unmistakably with those who see Mr. Bush’s presidency in the darkest shades, if often for radically different reasons. Review: ‘Bush,’ a Biography as Scathing Indictment 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Any biographer has to approach with humility because biography is an impossible task. The Making of a New M.L.K. Biography: A Q&A With the Author, Jonathan Eig 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z As Gerald Clarke, Capote's biographer, puts it: "In Perry he recognised his shadow, his dark side, the embodiment of his own accumulated angers and hurts." Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - rereading 2011-08-05T09:00:06Z Tomalin, a longtime literary editor and the renowned biographer of Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys, tells her own story in this eventful, sometimes tragic memoir written at age 84. New in Paperback: ‘Crudo’ and ‘How Long ’til Black Future Month?’ 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Once in Hollywood, she was typically cast as uncanny “others” or what her biographer Ruth Barton calls “exotic dames.” ‘The Witch’ and Five Hedy Lamarr Films Come to Disc, Casting Spells 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Never trust a biographer on the subject of himself. My hero: Félix Nadar by Richard Holmes 2013-04-26T18:01:01Z The traditional task of the Hitchcock biographer has been to locate the defining event that became the wellspring for his lifelong interest in paranoia, surveillance and sexual violence. The Many Selves of Alfred Hitchcock, Phobias, Fetishes and All 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z You don’t think of biographers as romantic figures or swashbuckling types, and their lives are not generally momentous. How Giorgio Vasari Invented Art History as We Know It 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z In similar fashion, it's difficult, or at least challenging, for any biographer to take on the life of an exemplary human being and fashion a compelling story out of it. 'Shall We Play That One Together?': The life of piano jazz legend Marian McPartland 2012-10-03T21:01:05Z The first female biographer of Hemingway, Dearborn writes that she is immune to her subject’s hypermasculine mythology and legacy, and turns to what formed the writer. New in Paperback: ‘King Zeno,’ ‘The Monk of Mokha’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z It became a heroic 3,600-page saga, still being revised, that distinguished him as the dean of Mahler biographers. Henry-Louis de La Grange, Mahler Authority, Is Dead at 92 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Monticello historians are relatively confident that Sally Hemings lived in one of two rooms along the south wing, based on an encounter between Jefferson’s grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph and an early biographer and other evidence. Perspective | Jefferson’s Monticello finally gives Sally Hemings her place in presidential history 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z In time he became a little more accessible to journalists and filmmakers and biographers. An Appraisal: The Artist as Provocateur, Set in His Ways 2011-07-22T16:36:03Z Lee quickly morphs from a biographer into impersonator, relying on the same skills that she used to enter into imaginative sympathy with the people she wrote about. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Reviewed: Melissa McCarthy Finally Gets the Dramatic Role She Deserves 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Newspaper essays, private diary entries, press interviews, poems and lyrics are among the materials assembled with extensive connective text by veteran biographer Barry Day, who did the same for Coward’s letters. Review | ‘Noël Coward On (and In) Theatre’ reveals the playwright’s nimble way with words 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Holmes is well known as the biographer of Shelley, Coleridge and others. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Logue’s survivors include his wife, Rosemary Hill, who is a historian and biographer. British Poet Christopher Logue Dies at 85 2011-12-10T20:49:32Z Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century painter and biographer of da Vinci and other artists, wrote that the perfectionist da Vinci worked on it for four years. French scientists crack secrets of Mona Lisa 2010-07-16T16:06:00Z This reminiscence by Parini, who is now a prolific novelist, biographer and poet, brings Borges more sharply to life than any account I’ve read or heard. A Road Trip With One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z We were lucky enough to collaborate with Wes Anderson on a little book of Zweig’s writings selected by Anderson and with an introductory conversation between him and Zweig’s latest biographer, George Prochnik. Indie spotlight: Pushkin Press 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z This is Steve Jobs explaining the origins of the Apple company name to biographer Walter Isaacson and revealing something of his eating habits in the process. Bacon and eggs for every meal: absurd diets of the rich and famous 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Hellman tried to thwart Mr. Wright’s work by instructing her friends not to speak to him and by threatening to appoint her own authorized biographer. William Wright, Biographer of Lillian Hellman, Dies at 85 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Uncritical admiration can make “Reckless Daughter” seem like a 400-page fan letter, though one certainly prefers Yaffe’s approach to that of biographers who despise their subjects. ‘Reckless Daughter’: A Protective Biography of Joni Mitchell 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Bird dismissed “American Prometheus” as too obscure, until Sherwin called the next morning to tell him that a friend, the biographer Ronald Steel, had suggested the same title over dinner the night before. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z A key accident was that he met the son of the biographer Monica Furlong while working at Waterstone's in the Charing Cross Road. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z But it turns out that many biographers and historians need to eat — and pay rent and buy clothes for their children. These books are brought to you with the help of Uncle Sam. 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z It is rare that a biographer of artists becomes the subject of a biography. How Giorgio Vasari Invented Art History as We Know It 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “I was strongly against the film depicting a living person with dementia,” Charles Moore, Ms. Thatcher’s authorized biographer, told Julie Steinberg of the Journal. Carpetbagger Blog: What Do 'Dragon Tattoo' and 'Iron Lady' Have in Common? Ask the Grousers 2011-12-23T13:30:35Z Jean H. Baker, biographer of Sanger and professor of history at Goucher College in Maryland, told Politifact, "As for Sanger as a supporter of KKK, it is just untrue," she wrote in an email. Why one crew member quit the anti-abortion “Roe V. Wade” film, featuring Jon Voight and Stace... 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z “Mr. Naifeh and Mr. Smith know everything about Pollock and understand almost nothing,” the biographer and Pollock authority Elizabeth Frank wrote in The New York Times Book Review in 1990. Gregory White Smith, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Dies at 62 2014-04-14T04:57:45Z But the money itself was never the point, according to interviews with Bloomberg’s friends and biographers. Mike Bloomberg deploys his billions to make a point, from a $1 million couch to a presidential campaign 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Moreover, as a thinker and biographer, Mizener brings subtlety and nuance to his approach. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z After the class, he explains that of all the lessons he's taken in as a biographer, none is more important than leaving some questions unanswered. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z It’s gratifying when a biographer and her subject are as perfectly matched as these two are. The Woman Who Was Written Out of the History of Dance 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z According to biographer Gwenda Blair, who wrote the book The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate, the Trump family originally went by Drumpf, before “the family changed the spelling of its name”. John Oliver launches anti-Trump campaign: #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z This is a human and humane book, an insightful exploration of the biographer’s craft. A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z In fact, Cline biographer Douglas Gomery said many of Cline's hit records made both the country and pop charts. Patsy Cline's restored house opening in Va 2011-07-26T19:35:13Z As his biographer, Philip Davis, writes, he had always felt himself to be “without animal magnetism,” and austerely structured his life around a rigorous writing schedule. The Erotic Truths of “Scary Old Sex” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z It's a huge privilege to be first as a biographer. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z For example, "the business", as Hawks's biographer Todd McCarthy relates, "of putting a strand of wheat in his mouth"; also "rubbing the side of his nose while in thought". Howard Hawks, Hollywood's finest practitioner of everyday chivalry 2011-01-15T00:05:49Z Of them all, it is perhaps Roosevelt who has been best served by his biographers, though the task of telling his life story has never been an easy one. Franklin Roosevelt’s Story Is Worth Telling Again and Again 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Still, Joachim Fest, a biographer of Hitler and one of the country’s most prominent chroniclers of the Nazi period, said Grass’ silence was “totally inexplicable.” German Nobel Laureate Guenter Grass Dies at Age 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z These are the years most biographers linger on, extracting all the juices, because they’re when an unusual life begins to diverge from the mundane ones that surround it. The Dramas and Intrigues of Louis Kahn, Monumental Architect 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Beatles biographer Philip Norman recently remarked on the Fabs' ability to "each become each other", and Paul McCartney does a bit of Cold Turkification himself on Let Me Roll It. Readers recommend: solo Beatles songs – results 2012-06-21T11:53:16Z According to Welles' biographer Simon Callow, the shorts represent "a very significant missing piece in the jigsaw of Welles's art". 'Lost' Orson Welles short recovered 2013-08-08T13:25:23Z In one episode, Patty Cannon, desperate to turn her hunting of black bodies into fame, tells a would-be biographer that “you can’t make a legend out of the truth.” Review | Want to know what revolution looks like? Watch ‘Underground.’ 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Henry is cutting about literary biographers who fall into the slack habit of finding one-to-one correspondences between real life people and fictional characters. The Life of George Eliot by Nancy Henry - review 2012-06-01T21:55:03Z "But nowadays we all expect the enterprising biographer to ferret out that hidden self." Ron Chernow receives biography award 2013-05-19T15:16:08Z She noted that Long’s populist message and swaggering style reminded her of Hitler, and according to Lewis’s biographer, Richard Lingeman, Lewis took the message to heart. Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Only a handful of Bach’s entries in Calov concern music, and these have received the most extensive — indeed, typically the only — attention from biographers. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z But the biographer also goes beyond this binary approach to the past, dwelling on and paying tribute to his subject as a lifelong opponent of imperialism. Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Biography by Artur Domoslawski – review 2012-08-02T07:00:02Z His friend and biographer Giorgio Vasari wrote the marble block was flawed and full of impurities and that “the chisel often struck sparks from it.” Bringing a Deathly Michelangelo Sculpture Back to Life 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z The manucripts and a number of Lennon's letters were donated to the library Wednesday by Hunter Davies, a Beatles biographer with longtime connections to the Fab Four. Beatles' lyrics headed for British Library 2013-05-22T16:31:09Z According to Bellori, Barocci's first biographer, Michelangelo first noticed the young painter when he alone among a group of students hung back while the others rushed to gain the great man's attention. Federico Barocci: divinity in the details 2013-02-16T09:01:00Z He would later become his literary executor and biographer. Andrew Motion: a life in writing 2012-10-05T21:55:13Z As prime minister, one of Thatcher's ambitions was to make Britain more competitive; posthumously, it's clear that included her biographers. Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z “I don’t want you to rehabilitate me,” Roth told his biographer. 15 New Books to Watch For in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Bailey contacted Roth at the suggestion of James Atlas, whose book on Bellow is often cited as a warning that biographers may come to dislike their subjects. ‘Philip Roth’: Blake Bailey’s story behind the story arrives 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Bellow himself, in terms of his major biographers, has fallen into a different sort of pit. Review: Zachary Leader’s ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z As recently as September, though, the biographer stood by his decision not to include the allegations the first time around. Mark Whitaker: “I was wrong to not deal with the sexual assault charges” in Cosby biography 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z And yet, as historians and biographers know well, a body of letters written over time is often the best clue we have to art’s mysterious origin points. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Lee is among the most acclaimed biographers working now, known for her previous books about Virginia Woolf, Penelope Fitzgerald and others, and here she offers an authoritative biography of the renowned playwright. 13 New Books to Watch For in February 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Chernow, currently working on a book about Ulysses Grant, said the biographer was ideally a match for even the most evasive subject. Ron Chernow receives biography award 2013-05-19T15:16:08Z In his fiction Golding would become a laureate of humiliation, writes Mr. Carey, a well-known British literary critic, biographer and academic. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z A decade later, he was writing books, and his best work as a biographer reveals where his heart lies. Walter Isaacson’s ‘The Innovators’ Studies Computer Wizards 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The biographer Charles J. Shields, author of “Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee,” said finding personal correspondence by Ms. Lee is “about as rare as a meteor hitting the earth.” Six Personal Letters by Harper Lee to Be Auctioned at Christie’s 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Photograph: Hulton The Treasury reluctantly stumped up £500 for David Livingstone's funeral – about £38,000 today – though his biographers neglect to tell us what this sum covered. Dr Livingstone had an all-but state funeral, yet now he makes us uneasy 2013-04-12T16:53:26Z None of his numerous biographers quite managed to define what made him tick. Peter Wilby: 'Anybody who studies Blair is forced to the conclusion that what is really at the core of him is Christianity' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Early on, Guha spells out how his technique differs from those of previous biographers: He uses the records of contemporaries to complement and sometimes challenge Gandhi’s own account. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: ‘Gandhi Before India’ 2014-05-09T18:11:37Z At Oxford, I came under the influence of The Spectator, then edited by Charles Moore, one of the most gifted English journalists of his generation and now Margaret Thatcher’s biographer. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z "Let's leave it to our biographers, if we deserve them, to investigate that issue." Author silent on Garcia Marquez row 2014-04-25T11:54:27Z Shakespeare's biographer Russell A. Fraser describes her as "a ghost", "haunting the edges of Shakespeare's story". In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z What he's getting at is the relationship between subject and biographer, the one condemned to existence, in all its three-dimensional elusiveness, and the other determined to find a narrative. Hanif Kureishi's 'The Last Word' lacks a certain sense of voice 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Just seven months after opening, Fruitlands closed – derided, in the words of one biographer, as “one of history’s most unsuccessful utopias”. Why do people hate vegans? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z It is not only Mary Ellen’s daring that so compels us, but her biographer’s. A Rebellious Victorian Woman Rescued From History’s Shadows 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Even his biographer admits she is repelled by him. The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review 2013-02-04T07:00:01Z In 2004, he collaborated with the biographer Douglas Brinkley on “Tour of Duty,” a chronicle of his service in the Vietnam War, during which he earned a Silver Star and Bronze Star. John Kerry to Write Memoir for Simon & Schuster 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In his later years, Stravinsky strategically underplayed Russia’s influence on him and his work; he wanted to be thought of, his biographer Stephen Walsh writes, as “a phenomenon without a history.” Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z According to biographer Andrew Lycett, Conan Doyle’s passion for spiritualism overtook his other pursuits and ultimately left him a figure of ridicule. Detecting the origins of Sherlock Holmes 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Closed to biographers, the archive shows a driven, competitive side of Updike that few people knew. Updike at Work: A Conversation 2010-06-21T13:30:00Z Diana Ross’s father got so tired of hearing what a rough childhood she had in Detroit’s Brewster Projects, he told one of her biographers how nice the lawns and courtyards there were. | Mary Wells 2010-11-23T17:57:00Z Oppenheimer isn't an easy biographical subject: the complexity, the contradictions, and the cultural breadth provoke interest in the man, while for the biographer they constitute massive practical problems. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z In what may be his one honest moment on record, Donald Trump once told a biographer, "I don't like to analyze myself because I might not like what I see." In the house of alternative facts: How my parents' lies prepared me for post-truth America 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Remnick is compulsive reading because he combines a fiction writer's pace with a biographer's psychological depth. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z Mr. Cornwell, 84, asked his biographer to show “due respect to the sensitivities of living third parties,” and as a result, the narrative of his private life is somewhat patchy. Review: Adam Sisman’s ‘John le Carré: The Biography’ 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z William Wright, a biographer who produced the first full-length life of Lillian Hellman, written despite her fierce opposition to the project, died on Saturday in Branford, Conn. He was 85. William Wright, Biographer of Lillian Hellman, Dies at 85 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Garrow, whose book included jabs at Mr. Maraniss and other Obama biographers, said the comment was “utterly and completely false,” and that it should not be repeated in this article because it was “defamatory.” His Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z But their seemingly towering romance—he threw it all away for her!—crumbles in the hands of biographer Andrew Morton. ‘Wallis in Love’ Challenges a Royal Love Story 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Bishop has never lacked good biographers, but Travisano has written a readable, appreciative book that does not analyze Bishop’s poems so much as read them out loud, admiring each line and beat. Review | It’s always a good time to revisit the brilliance of Elizabeth Bishop 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The more apt, and useful, comparison might be with Robert Caro, the biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, the great anatomizer of political power. Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z But others may want to hold out for the smart biographer who better contextualizes the curator’s idiosyncrasies. The remarkable curator Walter Hopps and the less than perfect book about him, 'The Dream Colony' 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Paul Bryant, Cecil's would-be biographer and the "stranger's child" of the title, certainly has his work cut out getting the facts from them. Alan Hollinghurst bears beautiful 'Stranger's Child' 2011-10-19T23:15:05Z Gelb and other biographers have speculated that O'Neill had a change of heart because he was patching up a relationship with his father, a devout Catholic, and he feared the play would alienate his family. Yale library acquires 'lost' Eugene O'Neill script 2011-10-19T22:16:03Z With boundless new detail gathered through meticulous research, Susan Cheever succeeds where most other biographers have failed. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Tillis, known for his rich baritone and the smooth sincerity of his vocal performances, spoke with a stutter since he was a toddler, according to online biographers. Mel Tillis, country music star known as 'Stutterin' Boy,' dead at 85 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z It was first attributed to him around 60 years later, when a biographer pieced together evidence that he wrote it. Shelley Poem, 200 Years Later, Returns to Oxford 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z This presented some serious challenges to her biographer, writer and critic Nancy Princenthal, who published the first full-length biography on the artist last year. What the world misunderstands about artist Agnes Martin and how her biographer unearthed her story 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z "He was a class act as a human being," biographer Dickerson told The Associated Press late Tuesday. Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's first guitarist, dies at 84 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z But even this book’s distortions suggest a man whose story remains barely told, while few white singers of his day are without up-to-date biographers. In ‘Driving the King,’ Ravi Howard Imagines Nat King Cole 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z As his biographer James Curtis put it, “The comedy had almost given way to outrage.” There’s No Dave Chappelle or Hannah Gadsby Without Mort Sahl 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z A seasoned literary biographer is tasked with writing the life story of a prickly, reclusive and renowned novelist whose work revels in alter-egos and funhouse transformations of his personal history. Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Godard was suffering the breakup of his own marriage while “A Married Woman” was in production, and Charlotte was, according to his biographer Richard Brody, a reflection of Mr. Godard’s wife, Anna Karina. ‘La Chienne’ and ‘A Married Woman’: The Better Half, in Dark Strokes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z This is a biographer with a rumbling case of the Mean Mr. Mustards. Review: Paul McCartney’s Yesterdays. All of Them. 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Now she's gone, perhaps biographers can be more honest about her limits. Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z Some biographers have gingerly addressed the matter over the years, often in footnotes or passing references. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z This makes the job of a biographer more difficult, but Amy S. Greenberg, in this intriguing life of Polk, partly solves the problem by drawing on social history. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z In 2004, Mr. Roth appointed Ross Miller, a professor at the University of Connecticut and the nephew of the late playwright Arthur Miller, as his biographer. ArtsBeat: Philip Roth to Cooperate With New Biographer 2012-09-05T18:51:59Z Erich nevertheless came of age in Vienna as a progressive, his biographer Brendan G. Carroll has argued; one theorist predicted in 1914 that he would be “the founder of a new order of music.” Has the Time Come for a Long-Ignored Korngold Symphony? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z As a seasoned biographer, I'm not surprised by any of this. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z “He would shoot the model as if he happened upon her in the street,” said Philip Gefter, a photography critic, a former photo editor at The New York Times and a biographer of Avedon. An Exhibition That Blends the Runway and the Street 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The book is also undermined by errors: Barbara Ehrenreich is not a biographer of Rosa Luxemburg; Salvador Allende was not a Communist; one does not drive “up” from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z In one sense, Carroll, who died wealthy and famous at 65 in 1898, is a biographer’s and exhibition curator’s dream. Looking at the Birth of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice,’ 150 Years Old 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Michael Kennedy, a biographer and friend, recalled that he liked to pronounce “tone row,” impishly, as if it rhymed with “cow.” Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z It’s a series of uncomfortable interviews with a would-be biographer in which little people approach a great writer’s corpse and leap on and off it like engorged fleas. Books of The Times: ‘All Men Are Liars,’ a Novel by Alberto Manguel 2012-06-21T21:51:49Z It escapes, for sure, what the biographer Michael Holroyd called “the prison of chronology.” A Biography of W.G. Sebald, Who Transformed His Borrowings Into Lasting Art 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z An earlier biographer of Haley, Anne Romaine, who died before her book was completed, might have delivered a more intimate account of his life. Review: In ‘Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation,’ a Reputation Made and Lost 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The documentary tries to get to the heart of West with observations from biographers, historians, friends, directors, her former manager and journalists. PBS invites you to come up sometime and see a Mae West doc 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Finally, in 1987, denied a promotion by the University of Pennsylvania, she resigned and fully embraced her life as a biographer. Learning the Wiles of a Biographer, With Beckett and Beauvoir 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The biographer is an artist on oath who must weigh all the evidence like a lawyer and always do justice to the subject. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z I wrote that sentence as flatly as I could, but in fact it makes my biographer's pulse race wildly. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z He sublimated a biographer’s ambitions, settling for decades of adoring friendship. A Biography of Oliver Sacks, Written by His Boswell 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z In fact, if there is a lesson here, it is that the biographer must rely on both. Review | In this brilliant biography, the author of ‘Frankenstein’ comes ALIVE! 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “It is riveting how much inventiveness exists. People create scenarios and write scripts for strange almost-plays,” Prince Charles once told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Bellow’s own biographer mused, after the publication of “Ravelstein,” “Who are the other great writers who have done anything like this in their eighties?” What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Many of the biographers, journalists and policy experts who appear in the film are critical of Reagan’s social policies. TV Watch: Remembering the Reagan We May Never Know 2011-02-04T18:54:16Z His biographer, Glenn Loney, writes that he spoke often of wanting to create “serious” work for the concert stage. ‘All That Jack (Cole),’ a Homage to a Forgotten Choreographer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Sarah Bradford, biographer of George VI, is a fan. The King's Speech gets a royal reception 2011-01-14T19:21:22Z Bergman told her biographer Charlotte Chandler: He disliked actors. Ingrid Bergman’s Great Sacrifice for Cinematic Art 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z At one point Ms. Anthony was pregnant with their child and suffered a miscarriage when a bookcase fell on her, according to her biographer, Mary Price Boday, in “A Dancer’s Journey.” Mary Anthony, Choreographer and Teacher of Modern Dance, Dies at 97 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Rose Wilder Lane’s astute and rigorous biographer, William Holtz, made a persuasive case, in “The Ghost in the Little House,” that Lane was her mother’s ghostwriter. The Clunky Memoir That Became “Little House on the Prairie” 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Were it not for her work as a biographer, Susan’s words about the house might sound sentimental. Closing the Book on Cheever’s House 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z In 2012, Bailey approached Roth after learning the novelist had parted ways with his earlier chosen biographer. Publisher pauses new Philip Roth biography as author, Blake Bailey, is accused of rape and grooming 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z His American biographer James Lord called it “a dump.” Giacometti: Beguiled by Thin Men and Women 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z “We are aware that a self-appointed would-be biographer, one Stephen Phillips, is embarked on a book on Christopher,” they wrote in an email, which The New York Times reviewed. Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widow’s Wishes 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z The slow start is more the fault of Hannibal than of Hunt, an archaeologist and biographer who teaches at Stanford University. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The Independent quotes two other Hitchcock biographers, who call the film "a total failure" and "a box-office disaster" before concluding: It's an irony that The White Shadow has now turned up. When discovery is the only thrill 2011-08-05T20:30:00Z The death was confirmed by his biographer, David Ritz. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88 Lahr, an author and biographer, knew instantly that Guest was something special. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Taking his cue from biographer Erwin Panofsky, who considered the whale incident one of the most important in Dürer’s later life, Hoare finds great significance in this seeming nonevent. Review | Philip Hoare’s examination of Albrecht Dürer takes readers on an entertaining, digressive ride 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z "Rohmer's films never contain any obvious attention-getting devices such as violence, unusual camera angles or even musical scores," wrote biographer Terry Ballard. 2010-01-11T18:58:00Z “I had come to believe that the serious biographer must physically pursue his subject through the past,” he explains. An insider’s tale of how biography works: ‘This Long Pursuit,’ by Richard Holmes 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Melissa McCarthy plays Lee Israel, a once bestselling biographer who fell on hard times and turned to counterfeiting literary manuscripts. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Colonna’s life, at first glance, is unpromising for a modern biographer. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Jonathan Fenby, The Economist’s correspondent in Paris in the early 1980s, is a veteran and affectionate observer of France, and a biographer of de Gaulle. Citoyen, citoyenne 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z But while most fan website creators are too myopic to be skillful biographers, Slawenski's subdued storytelling and concise literary analysis make this not just a trivia-filled tome, but also a delightful read. 'J.D. Salinger: A Life': Kenneth Slawenski's biography of a reluctant genius 2011-01-22T00:07:54Z "I was astonished at how I looked," she later told Todd McCarthy, Hawks's biographer. Remembering "The Two and Only" Jane Russell: 1921-2011 2011-03-04T09:05:00Z When he decided to turn his attention to his origins, his longtime mentor, David Levering Lewis, the Pulitzer-prize winning biographer of W.E.B. Reckoning with an Upbringing in a ‘Noah’s Ark’ of a Family, With ‘Two of Every Race’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The biographer’s unintrusive everyday prose is unseen and unheard; yet under Bailey’s strong light what remains on the page is one writer’s life as it was lived, and — almost — as it was felt. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z He also edited a series of books in which journalists, biographers, travel writers and editors discussed their work. William Zinsser, author of the classic guide ‘On Writing Well,’ dies at 92 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Crain, taking control of the editing, thought the manuscript should focus more on the narrator’s father, according to the biographer Shields, and that the title should be changed to reflect that. To shill a ‘Mockingbird’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z First, by the great artist biographer Giorgio Vasari, who recognized Pontormo’s gifts but depicted him as a solitary eccentric who imitated the manner of the German painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer to a fault. He Was More Than a Mannerist 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z It included an introduction by Professor Dabney that the eminent critic and biographer R. W. B. Lewis called “the most cogent overview of Wilson’s career yet written.” Lewis M. Dabney, Scholar Who Made Edmund Wilson Focus of His Life’s Work, Dies at 83 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z In nonfiction, “The Dead Are Arising” marks the second time in the past decade that a Malcolm X biographer was posthumously cited by awards judges. Novelist Lydia Millet among National Book Award finalists 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Haskell seems to have done no primary research; she was told that her subject has a policy of not granting interviews to biographers. A Feminist’s Biography of Steven Spielberg Focuses on His Jewish Identity 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z He is, at heart, an obsessed biographer who seems to have left no diary unopened, no letter unread, no manuscript unscrutinized. Iconic Food Writers Toppled Off Their Pedestals 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Few poets offer their biographers as rich a vein of material as the Chilean Nobel Prize-winner Pablo Neruda . Review | The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z “When he became archbishop of Buenos Aires, apart from annual visits to Rome, I’m only aware of three trips he ever made,” said biographer Austen Ivereigh. Pope Francis struggles with English. Here’s how he’ll get his message across in the U.S. 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Years ago, she told her biographer David Ritz that the media hadn’t been paying enough attention to all the trophies and medals being thrown at her, so it was time to type up another book. Perspective | Aretha Franklin’s voice was the sound of an America we’re still trying to become 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Other biographers have grappled with Guevara’s brutality and ruthlessness, condemning or excusing him according to their own ideological predispositions. A 50-Year-Old Graphic Biography of Che Guevara That Still Feels Fresh 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Dash was "the Queen's closest childhood companion," according to Her Highness' biographer Elizabeth Longford. The value of Pumpkin on "The Gilded Age," descended from a breed that's all about the good life 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Kissing Cousins: One’s President Peering into famous bedrooms is a pastime of biographers and filmmakers alike, and this season offers several opportunities for the nosily inclined. Movie Review: ‘Hyde Park on Hudson,’ With Bill Murray and Laura Linney 2012-12-06T13:00:00Z Though Loy's careful privacy sometimes brought frustration to her biographer, Leider said that getting to know her through researching the book was a joy. Myrna Loy 'a wonderful companion' for biographer Emily Leider 2012-08-01T20:26:05Z “I played at being someone I wanted to be until I became that person, or he became me,” he told his biographer. Hollywood's secret history: Scotty Bowers on sex and stars in the Golden Era 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Occasionally there is the unhappy sense that Tomalin is viewing her own life from too great a distance, as if she were a biographer working through a stranger’s life from file cards. An Award-Winning Biographer’s Latest Subject: Herself 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z An award-winning biographer and historian, Anthony David brings us the story of unexpected friendship while he discovers the true pasts of two outstanding women. Border walls aren't about security — they're about preventing empathy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Batchelor's USP is that he presents Tennyson as "more centrally Victorian" than previous biographers – which seems to me to be about as radical as calling the aforementioned Price "deeply tanned". Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor – review 2012-11-16T11:00:01Z Later Ruskin biographers have suggested that the problem may have been that Effie was menstruating or even that she had B.O. Books of The Times: Victorian Goddesses, a Real Wife and a Sour Marriage 2011-06-21T21:35:19Z When faced with a biographer who is so disinclined to analyse and so bafflingly incurious, he evaporates. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z For a biographer, there’s a lot to untangle. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z One thing I’ll say is, the cliché about biographers is — it’s an unfortunate one — after a long time of working on the book they’re working from a contempt for their subject. The peak of Sinatra’s power: “Every Sinatra performance was acting. His greatest performance was as himself” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Lacking concrete details of the artist’s daily life, a biographer is tempted to fall back on the hypothetical. Review | In ‘Young Rembrandt,’ Onno Blom tries to piece together the artist as a young man 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Or, as his first biographer wrote: “Winston advertises himself as simply and unconsciously as he breathes.” Review: In ‘Hero of the Empire,’ a Young Churchill Earns His Spurs 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Schiff moves the story of Cleopatra beyond that of a sultry seductress and into a narrative of a powerful ruler determined to do anything and everything necessary to preserve her country 7. The 10 hottest books at Seattle Public Library 2011-11-28T00:52:04Z Yet he was closely attended to by both a stenographer and a biographer. 2010-02-11T08:05:00Z I liked him and Tosh's biographer trying to put into words just how abrasive he could be. Arise Black Man: the Peter Tosh Story ? review 2010-11-24T07:59:00Z Charles soon cooperated with a biographer of his own, Jonathan Dimbleby, in an effort to shore up public support. A Low Point for the Monarchy, in a New Season of ‘The Crown’ 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z The park’s biographer Sara Cedar Miller called it “one of America’s most important and enduring works of art.” Books of The Times: ‘Central Park: An Anthology,’ Edited by Andrew Blauner 2012-07-05T12:00:00Z Winston Churchill, who rallied Britons during World War II’s darkest days, is a name frequently invoked — even by Churchill’s biographer. A modern Churchill? Zelenskyy praised as war communicator 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Yes, says the Christie biographer Laura Thompson, who believes attitudes have been shifting for a few years. Shedunnit – how Agatha Christie became cinema hot property 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Britten revelations tend to be about specially favoured boys, and this biographer's diagnosis raised a certain amount of interest through its novelty. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z According to contemporary biographers, Caravaggio participated in a secret competition with two other painters to make a canvas of this scene, known as “Ecce Homo.” Possible Caravaggio Is Withdrawn From Auction; Spain Announces Export Ban 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z A decade or so later the Valance and Sawle families gather at Corley to aid the first of Cecil’s biographers, an eminent politician and Cambridge contemporary who was secretly in love with him. Books of The Times: ?The Stranger?s Child? by Alan Hollinghurst - Review 2011-12-11T21:24:58Z I distrust any biographer who doesn’t show much evidence of humour when writing about him. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z What he wasn't, says biographer Leigh Montville, was all that likable. Evel Knievel: showman, rogue, reality TV Star 2011-07-20T09:27:20Z In chasing his quarry to the final chapter, the biographer sometimes risks losing the scent, falling back on conjecture and equivocation. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z Dearborn explores these corners of his sensibility more fully than previous biographers, and she does so with subtlety and insight — qualities that are also present in her discussions of Hemingway’s work. Ernest Hemingway: The man behind the cultivated image of hyper-masculinity 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Stein went to the Morgan Library, which holds Matisse’s papers, in July and found a 1974 handwritten letter from James Lord, Giacometti’s biographer, to Matisse that discussed the “Night” sculpture at length. Show at Johnson’s Glass House Yields a Giacometti 2012-09-20T22:36:17Z Most traditional biographers are reticent about guessing how Beethoven’s deafness affected his composing. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Soon after, Schjeldahl was exiled from his position as authorized biographer. A Daughter, Her Father and the Long-Gone Poet Who Brought Them Together 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z “I believe Jann was entitled to expect a little more empathy from his biographer,” he said. Jann Wenner and His Biographer Have a Falling Out 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Ritz is a prolific ghostwriter and biographer who has worked with musicians like Ray Charles, B.B. 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Wilson, a noted literary biographer, uses Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” to structure this book, which focuses on the middle period of Lawrence’s life, from 1915 through 1925. 11 New Books Coming in August 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Arnold Rampersad, the Stanford literary scholar and biographer of Langston Hughes and Ralph Ellison, called Ms. Kaplan’s title “cheeky,” but credited her with filling a notable historical gap. Uncovering Strangers in a Strange Land 2013-09-03T16:40:40Z Joining her will be Mr. Richter, as well as the authors D. T. Max, a biographer of David Foster Wallace, and Edmund White, one of the most prolific and influential chroniclers of gay life. Around Town for Nov. 11-17 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z You sense there are stories that await a biographer. In His Autobiography, the College Basketball Giant John Thompson Is Plainspoken and Profound 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z As a young woman in 1915, she was expected to write about parties, gossip and subjects as diverse as “flowers and sunsets and tree planting,” wrote her biographer, Jack E. Davis. At the March for Our Lives, you’ll see her name again. But who was Marjory Stoneman Douglas? 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The Fixed Period has been largely ignored by those who go to Trollope for a superior kind of comfort reading, and dismissed as an aberrant minor work by most critics and biographers. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z When Christopher Sandford, the band's biographer, wrote about the show for the Guardian, several readers came into the comments thread to talk about the times they'd seen the Stones play live. When I saw the Rolling Stones play live 2012-07-10T16:21:48Z One biographer has it that the eventual wreckage was the result of a failed effort to add more cartilage to the already cartoonishly pointed tip. Michael Jackson: King of hypochondria 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z Mr. Berger’s biographer Landon Brooks placed “Little Big Man” in a tradition of American frontier literature begun by James Fenimore Cooper. Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z If that doesn’t put would-be biographers on guard, he adds that liberties have been taken with all the details “with due abandon.” Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’ is a cunning dance with autobiography 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z For the self-employed, professional biographer it makes sense to go for a smaller project – something that can perhaps be written from printed sources. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z Her position as a “woman biographer” put her in a new perilous position. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The biographer of singular Geniuses such as Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs takes on a slew of them in The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Meet the Computer Age's Original Minds 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “I don’t want to be any more than I am,” Armstrong wrote to a British biographer less than a year before he died. Ways to Spend a Virtual Day With Louis Armstrong 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Needless to say, such excess could easily stun any reader, cause an outbreak of fatigue — Lutherjahrmüdigkeit as Germans might say — or scare away all would-be Luther biographers for years to come. Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z In a perfect world, publishers wouldn't resort to this advertising gimmick, so that the public – especially students – won't be misled regarding the rights of biographers in our democracy. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z "You can't stop writing," says Salter, who notes that Roth is reportedly in active correspondence with his biographer, Blake Bailey. Roth retires but Wolfe, Wouk among authors past 80 2012-11-20T12:59:09Z Pyke, who was “like a figure on a Byzantine icon” to the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, led a life that would have made for a roaring good read from any biographer. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z She has even had an extensive screen career, portrayed by the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Jeanne Moreau and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and part of a biographer’s job these days is sorting out the truth from myth. Robert K. Massie?s Latest Subject Is Catherine the Great 2011-11-09T22:40:21Z As his biographers Robert and Mary Bagg reveal, he experienced serious depression and addiction, and he suffered that private apocalypse known only by the very old, who lose everything they ever loved, slowly. The Poet of Light 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Garry Giddins, the jazz critic and biographer of Bing Crosby, performed his own reassessment of Monroe’s musical ability and was impressed. Channeling a Bombshell, One Jazzy Note at a Time 2011-08-06T20:43:02Z For a biographer, such contradictions present an opportunity to depict a round character, in E.M. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z His inspirations include the British biographer Lytton Strachey, whom Bailey said regarded humanity as “ridiculous, but also touching.” ‘Philip Roth’: Blake Bailey’s story behind the story arrives 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Another prolific biographer, Meryle Secrest, liked the phrase so much, she used it for the title of a book about her process. Roaringly Adventurous, in the Wild and in the Bedroom 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z He grew up amid the rebellious Luddite movement, and attended a school that, from his biographer’s descriptions, sounds like one of Dickens’s juvenile penal colonies. Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z It also made him a notoriously elusive figure for biographers. Books of The Times: ?Charles Dickens,? by Claire Tomalin; ?Becoming Dickens? - 2011-10-24T22:30:07Z Who are the best writers — novelists, essayists, biographers, journalists, poets — working today, in your opinion? John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The book has long since been forgotten — by mystery buffs, Roosevelt biographers and everyone else. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z But Life then printed only black-and-white photos, and Capa’s biographer, Richard Whelan, later called the images of Hemingway “personal snapshots” — implying that they weren’t suitable for depicting the Great Author and his family. Art Review: ‘Capa in Color’ at International Center of Photography 2014-02-06T22:07:19Z On the theory that the biographer of a stripper needs a tease, Karen Abbott opens “American Rose” with Gypsy Rose Lee on the verge of something big. Books of The Times: A Life Built on Illusion: More Tease Than Strip 2010-12-19T23:12:36Z As she told the Robbins biographer Greg Lawrence in his book “Dance With Demons,” “Those early memories of seeing Broadway shows had a big effect on me.” Susan Kikuchi, 74, Dies; Staged Martha Graham Dances and ‘King and I’ 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z “It really moved me because it also reflects on the dark side of Maradona,” said Daniel Arcucci, a sports writer who is also the soccer player’s official biographer, and who appears in the film. New Maradona film tracks highs and lows, intimate family moments 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z His death was confirmed by James L. Dickerson, who was Mr. Moore’s biographer and friend. Scotty Moore, Hard-Driving Guitarist Who Backed Elvis Presley, Dies at 84 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z In the Hilton bar with me was Bradbury's biographer, Sam Weller. Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury: the tale-teller who tapped into the gothic core of America 2012-06-08T21:55:20Z Morgan is the appropriate person to write such a book, given his mixed professional life as novelist, poet and biographer. 'Lions of the West': A group biography 2011-12-22T00:54:03Z She, too, worked as a biographer for people who had sustained traumatic brain injuries, describing her clients’ suffering as vividly as possible so that juries could determine what settlement they would receive. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Indeed Berg is a tricky subject for the biographer and the filmmakers. Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher and an Enigma 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z One thing, however, remains unspoken: the ultimate tribute, Abramovic´'s request that Hegarty will sing at her funeral, which she recently divulged to her biographer. When Antony met Marina 2010-10-10T20:29:00Z Tillis, known for his rich baritone and the smooth sincerity of his vocal performances, spoke with a stutter since he was a toddler, according to online biographers. Mel Tillis, country music star known as 'Stutterin' Boy,' dead at 85 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z He ended his brief, circumscribed life in a small house in Port of Spain that, to many people, would resemble a shack—“a box,” writes Naipaul’s biographer, Patrick French. The Shattering Double Vision of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z According to Churchill's biographer Sir Max Hastings, the number became an optimistic talisman for them in the dark days of 1940. The Cannes film festival in my head 2010-05-11T09:53:00Z Kai Bird, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and political biographer, is at work on a new book about former President Jimmy Carter. Biography of Jimmy Carter Is in the Works 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z This smooth and brisk presentation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of one of America’s most accomplished poets is enriched by recently discovered documents. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Hayes begs off the assignment of the biographer. In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z “He was essentially banished from the family home,” said his biographer, Michael D’Antonio. Confident. Incorrigible. Bully: Little Donny was a lot like candidate Donald Trump 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z According to the composer's biographer, George Grove, Beethoven was unable to hear the music, but stood next to the conductor during the performance to guide him as to the tempo. Plaque to mark Beethoven symphony 2013-08-08T17:32:15Z Dillon, the biographer, writes that, for a period of her youth, Jane would read Weil’s “Waiting for God” each night before falling asleep. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Gething added: “There were not going to be biographers, prime ministers and royalty experts. Just the people who knew her and loved her best.” Another Look at Princess Diana, With a Notable Difference 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z The British biographer Michael Holroyd’s life of Lytton Strachey, for instance, is a major work about a minor Bloomsbury figure that is fascinating to read because Holroyd recognizes, without admonishing, Strachey’s spectacular selfishness. The Man Who Queered Broadway 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Sperber's understanding of Marx's personality is much deeper than that of other biographers – he was a tortured, bullish, emotional, obviously Anglo-German bourgeois figure. Karl Marx: a Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber – review 2013-06-26T07:00:04Z The 18 gigabytes of data they contain seemed to promise future biographers and literary scholars a digital wonderland: comprehensive, organized and searchable files, quickly accessible with a few clicks. Emory University Saves Rushdie?s Digital Data 2010-03-15T22:06:00Z But biographers have observed that Thatcher’s anxious disposition, pretentious accent and grandiose manner simply irritated the queen. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z But his inner life, the source of his scholarly drive — even what it was about the Greek epics that he loved so much — remain a mystery for reader and biographer alike. Kicking Homer to the Curb: The American Scholar Who Upended the Classics 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z He succeeded, of course, and his notoriety poses a problem for biographers unlikely to discover anything new about the great aesthete. Born to be Wilde 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Other biographers have seen Oppenheimer at closer range, in living color. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z The author refers to these books as “the confessions of an elusive biographer.” Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z Sweig, who has also written books on Cuba and U.S. foreign policy, is much more sensitive to the nuances of Lady Bird’s complicated relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy than other biographers have been. Beneath Her Decorous Demeanor, ‘Lady Bird Johnson’ Was a Political Force 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Or so the late Apple founder, told Walter Isaacson, his biographer. Why Steve Jobs Chose This Designer’s Turtlenecks 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Tchaikovsky died the following year at the age of 53, believing the work to be a failure; it was, according to biographer David Brown, not performed again in Russia until 1919. Why Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’ is the sound of the holidays for so many of us 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Churchill selected his son, the writer Randolph Churchill, to be his official biographer. Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies at 78 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z If I was to get the full 700-page treatment, I’d want it to be written by someone with the qualities of any good biographer: stamina, patience, empathy, humour, detachment and an ear for language. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z His father, who arrived at Ellis Island from Sicily in 1920, got a graduate degree from Columbia and became a respected translator, biographer and professor. ‘Scalia: A Court of One,’ by Bruce Allen Murphy 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z “Liszt I’d like to have met,” a musical biographer once told me. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z If anything in “Ali: A Life” is likely to be controversial it may be the biographer’s acknowledgment of the dark side of boxing, which public celebrations of Ali discreetly ignore. Muhammad Ali, Beginning to End for the First Time in a Book 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Several of his greatest biographers set out to tell the full story, but were nearly overcome by the immensity of the task. Franklin Roosevelt’s Story Is Worth Telling Again and Again 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z A biographer of Monroe husband and baseball great Joe DiMaggio wrote that Pepitone kept Monroe's bedroom in order and also cooked Italian dishes for DiMaggio. Ex-maid to Marilyn Monroe dies in NYC at 86 2011-06-09T00:23:08Z Todd, a biographer and literary critic, also plays with making this a meta-novel. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Prince Rogers Nelson is fascinating, the sort of rock star an author might invent … Unfortunately, Thorne is a Prince fanatic, once considered for the job of approved biographer. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-10-05T21:55:16Z Writing a group portrait, Spring notes, freed him from “the biographer’s duty of isolating and praising the accomplishments of a single individual.” Iconic Food Writers Toppled Off Their Pedestals 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z “I’ve read that ‘Echo’ is my ‘divorce album,’” Petty told his biographer, referring to his 1999 effort, “but ‘Wildflowers’ is the divorce album. The Raw Roots of Tom Petty’s ‘Wildflowers,’ Revealed at Last 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Genoways, in addition to his work as a journalist, is also a poet and a biographer of Walt Whitman, but this isn’t a particularly lyrical book. Little Farm on the Prairie 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Those of James Boswell, David Garrick and Adam Smith in the 1770s expanded the group to include the greatest biographer, the greatest actor and the greatest economist of the century. The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Often, Nasaw said, family resistance takes the form of refusing to allow the biographer to reprint articles or book excerpts, or maybe a round of phone calls to dissuade others from participating. Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widow’s Wishes 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z According to Seattle Times freelancer and Heart biographer Charles R. Cross, who attended, it was an emotional evening, featuring the first reunion of the original Heart lineup in 30 years. Heart, Quincy Jones featured on Rock Hall broadcast Saturday 2013-05-17T15:36:11Z As for whether biographers and journalists would be granted access, Brooke said, “We evaluate all requests on a case-by-case basis.” Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z For centuries, Shakespeare’s male biographers twisted these meager facts into a misogynistic scenario: An aging spinster entraps a callow youth and a loveless, mostly long-distance, marriage ensues. Shakespeare Lost His Son to Plague. A Novel Asks How It Shaped His Art. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Dr. Melvin Hurley, a poetry scholar, is Cliff James’s biographer, writing a tome that he hopes will place the poet on “the pantheon of black genius.” Review | In ‘The Gone Dead,’ a woman’s questions about her father’s death reveal a town’s racist history 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Saul, who teaches English at the University of California, Berkeley, also asserts his props as something more than a celebrity biographer, now that his subject’s glory days are decades behind us. ‘Becoming Richard Pryor,’ Scott Saul’s Biography 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Famously reluctant to talk about himself and often rebarbative toward interviewers, De Niro is a difficult subject for any biographer. Book review: ‘De Niro: A Life,’ by Shawn Levy Friend and foil, colleague and biographer, Watson marveled at Holmes’ powers of deduction no less than the reader did. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Frenzied With Benefits 2011-12-15T16:58:57Z Yet the biographer uses that disappearing act to continue to explore the period when Salinger "became even more famous for his withdrawal" than he had been for his writing. 'J.D. Salinger: A Life': Kenneth Slawenski's biography of a reluctant genius 2011-01-22T00:07:54Z Many biographers have tried to reach beyond the infamous soundtrack of Richard M. Nixon’s presidency, those secretly recorded hours and hours of unguarded discussion, invective and delusion. Television Review: ‘Our Nixon,’ a CNN Documentary About White House Cameras 2013-07-31T22:11:25Z The takeaway from this vivid, tender book is that it can be as valuable for a reader to know a biographer as it is for a biographer to know his or her subject. Books Of the Times: ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s Memoir 2014-02-23T22:48:06Z I talk so much about the bias of the historian, whether it's the person constructing the past as an archeologist or as a detective or as a biographer. "We Keep the Dead Close" author Becky Cooper's on the ritualistic murder that shocked Harvard 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z “Toibin seeks to grasp the entirety of Mann’s life and times, the way a biographer might, and he does so quite neatly. Maximalist in scope but intimate in feeling, ‘The Magician’ never feels dutiful. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z "There certainly was an accident, or rather an incident," wrote Dylan biographer Howard Sounes. Dylan biopic I'm Not There: a ragtag and Bob tale 2012-12-05T13:57:00Z The critic Kenneth Tynan divided playwrights into two categories, “smooth” and “hairy,” and one could probably make a similar distinction among biographers. The Devilish Life and Art of Lucian Freud, in Full Detail 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z He had been thinking of a book about his life since the 1990s, originally asking University of Connecticut professor Ross Miller to be his biographer, for a publication scheduled for release by Harcourt Houghton Mifflin. Blake Bailey’s 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z With a marked ability to become whatever character he’s playing, Robert De Niro presents any biographer with a vexing question: Who, exactly, is he? Book review: ‘De Niro: A Life,’ by Shawn Levy This is a complex tale involving a young and reluctant biographer, Margaret Lea, an old and enigmatic writer, Vida Winter, and the long departed members of the March family and their home, Angelfield House. Penelope Bush's top 10 teen twin books 2013-03-28T16:29:47Z From his biographers, Ms. Kovgan knew Cunningham had been filmed dancing “Changeling” by a television studio in Germany in 1958, but “Changeling” was not on its list of archived Cunningham material. Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed in Boston 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Chaplin probably never knew of the movie’s existence, said film critic and Chaplin biographer David Robinson, according to Reuters. ArtsBeat: Chaplin Film Fails to Fetch a Buyer at Auction 2011-06-30T14:59:58Z As he reflected to his biographer: “Oh man, we all thought that too, when we were young: My God, what kind of world have we inherited?” Even Billy Joel Mocked ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire.’ I Loved It. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Michael Peppiatt, a friend and biographer of Bacon, said in a telephone interview that, “Like his taste for the very great artists, like Michelangelo and Velásquez, his literary icons also tended to be monuments.” Francis Bacon Read Just as He Painted: Deep, Dark and Bleak 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Such is the challenge facing any biographer of Churchill: how to weigh in the balance a life filled with so much triumph and disaster, adulation and contempt. Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z And yet, as many biographers have noted — and as Mark Doty’s excellent new personal rumination, “What Is the Grass,” confirms — Whitman was a more private individual than he let on. Review | In ‘What Is the Grass,’ Mark Doty looks at Walt Whitman through an autobiographical lens 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Wharton’s family, though it had solid social credentials — Edith was a cousin to Mrs. Astor — were merely comfortably off, part of a circle of what the author Louis Auchincloss, another Wharton biographer, termed “haute bourgeoisie.” Heiresses of Wharton?s Era in Fashion on Her 150th Birthday 2012-01-19T23:18:19Z With celebrated volumes behind her on the likes of Edith Wharton and Penelope Fitzgerald, Lee is an expert biographer. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The new Hammett collection also includes the archive of Richard Hayman, the author's biographer and trustee of the Hammett Literary Property Trust who has spent 40 years writing about and researching Hammett and his work. Dashiell Hammett collection goes to the University of South Carolina 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z As that illustrates, Mr. Brinkley is so well suited to being Luce’s biographer that he sometimes shares his subject’s reticence. Books of The Times: Alan Brinkley Tells Henry Luce?s Story in ?The Publisher? 2010-04-19T21:35:00Z A century after her death, she was rewarded with a biographer who possesses the same traits in abundance, and who, persevering in her name, lifts her from ignominy into stardom. A Rebellious Victorian Woman Rescued From History’s Shadows 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Patrick French, a historian and biographer whose books include acclaimed accounts of India’s march toward independence and the life of the writer V.S. Patrick French, Unsparing Biographer of V.S. Naipaul, Dies at 56 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z He first read the book as an undergraduate at Cornell, according to his biographer Scott Elledge. “Every man reads one book in his life, and this one is mine”: E.B. White’s lifelong conversation with Thoreau’s “Walden” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z So his biographer must instead situate the poet against the backdrop of his family and his time. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury Fred Trump provided financial resources when Donald entered the Manhattan real estate market in the 1970s and “redefined what it meant to be a New York builder,” said Wayne Barrett, a Trump biographer. Trump left his mark all over New York. Some in the city would like to erase it. 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “Bellow’s bad temper in the late ’60s was by no means directed exclusively at would-be biographers, radical students and aggrieved wives,” Leader begins a sentence, apologetically, on just Page 65. Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Kersten, the latest biographer of an iconic American fighter, talks with literary critic Winslow. What to see at the Printers Row Lit Fest 2011-06-03T15:17:00Z Roald Dahl originally intended the young hero of his 1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to be black but was dissuaded by his agent, according to both the author’s widow and his official biographer. Charlie from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' Was Supposed to Be Black 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “This was back when playwrights could actually become celebrities, in a way they never can be today,” Robert M. Dowling, his biographer, said. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z She leads a biographer on a merry chase. Kathy Acker, Drawn to the Margins, Pushed Literature’s Boundaries 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Barish, a specialist on 19th-century American transcendentalism who retired from the City University of New York in 1997, might seem an unlikely de Man biographer. Revisiting a Scholar Unmasked by Scandal 2014-03-09T21:47:03Z Lloyd George has not, as yet, been fortunate in his biographers. The Great Outsider: David Lloyd George by Roy Hattersley 2010-10-02T13:34:00Z "It doesn't surprise me," said Cary Ginell, a music historian and biographer who edited the seventh edition of "Broadway Musicals: Show By Show." 'Lion King' is Broadway's all-time box office king 2012-04-09T16:24:11Z Journalists and biographers reflexively scour Mr. Polanski’s life for clues to his art and vice versa. 2010-02-12T18:53:00Z His father apparently began work on the death-haunted “Hamlet” not long afterward, something that has driven biographers into frenzies of Freudian speculation. In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Wife Takes the Spotlight, at Last 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Having a biographer on your tail must be a similarly dire sort of bulletin. Books of The Times: ‘Martin Amis: The Biography,’ by Richard Bradford 2012-12-05T04:49:02Z On Tuesday, publisher Harper Collins released T.I's "Power & Beauty: A Love Story of Life on the Streets," an urban-based novel featuring African American characters co-written by frequent celebrity biographer David Ritz. Rapper T.I. turns novelist with "Power & Beauty" 2011-10-19T23:04:07Z Chaplin probably never knew of the movie's existence, said film critic and Chaplin biographer David Robinson. Forgotten Chaplin film fails to find buyer at auction 2011-06-30T11:55:21Z Einstein's scientific biographer wrote that "to say that this made possible the construction of nuclear weapons is like saying that the invention of the alphabet caused the Bible to be written". Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z Atlas is a literary biographer who attempts in “The Shadow in the Garden” to provide an account of his work and his obsessions. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Two of her sisters, Diana and Unity, became passionate supporters of Adolf Hitler, while another, Nancy, became an admired novelist and biographer. AD Remembers: Deborah Duchess of Devonshire 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Lee, who turns 73 later this month, did not set out to become a biographer. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z He divides royal biographers into “fawners and psychos,” and admits to a certain “delirium” of his own. Mad, Bad and Difficult to Know: The Life of a Rebel Aristocrat 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z It is not uncommon for family members to feel protective of a loved one’s memory, particularly when approached by a biographer. Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widow’s Wishes 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Most biographers, by nature an empathetic lot, have sought to explain Wilson’s feats and flaws rather than to justify or disdain them. Woodrow Wilson Achieved a Lot. So Why Is He So Scorned? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z His biographers say it was there, in 1890, as he interviewed prisoners in a penal colony for the census, that he became deeply preoccupied with human suffering. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z They were donated by Beatles biographer Hunter Davies in lieu of £120,000 tax. £49m of art donated in tax scheme 2013-11-14T10:12:19Z Not surprisingly, the biographer to whom he has confided is a fellow Canadian, veteran music journalist Nicholas Jennings, who enjoyed his subject’s full cooperation. If you could read Gordon Lightfoot’s mind, this is the tale his thoughts could tell 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Some biographers have seen this as a regressive streak or a sign of Brahms’s military bent. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Dylan told the music critic and Dylan biographer Robert Shelton. Suze Rotolo, a Face, With Bob Dylan, of ?60s Music, Is Dead at 67 2011-03-01T06:01:28Z But his biographer Christopher Bigsby, speaking at the Edinburgh international book festival, defended the author of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Arthur Miller: why America lowered the curtain on his reputation 2011-08-19T18:17:25Z Photograph: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis When F Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940, he was, in the words of his biographer Matthew J Bruccoli, "an unemployed screenwriter", whose fiction was largely ignored, if not entirely forgotten. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-29T08:00:35Z "Mrs. Nixon" isn't a definitive biography — and isn't remotely meant to be — but it's a vivid, elegant study of two women: the subject and the biographer/storyteller, entwining in the imagination. 'Mrs. Nixon': Stories, real and imagined, of an enigmatic first lady 2011-12-01T00:41:04Z The literary executors of TS Eliot, George Orwell and Lawrence Durrell have also held back letters and diaries from would-be biographers. The minefield of fame: how accurate do biopics need to be? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z “The chain of news events and personalities came easily — mostly they just spilled out of my memory as fast as I could scribble them down,” Joel told his biographer Fred Schruers. Even Billy Joel Mocked ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire.’ I Loved It. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z The disagreement was particularly awkward, because it pitted an admiring biographer against one of the most adored authors in the country. 55 years after ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Scout returns in new-old novel 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z She wouldn’t make a decision about a biographer of her life in film lightly. Toni Morrison doc filmmaker on her banned books: "People are afraid ... of powerful black women" 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z At the same time, her biographer R. W. B. Lewis writes, she “felt propelled out of her metaphorical prison,” able to “exercise what Henry James had called a fantastic freedom.” How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Perhaps the best biographer must be equal part champion and skeptic — especially when dealing with a subject so skilled at evasion. ‘Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly’ Hunts for Big — and Elusive — Game 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Horrified by the deceptions perpetrated by novelists, dramatists, historians and biographers, the reading public turns in desperation to poets. Review | ‘Dead Souls’ is a witty, sharp, cruel critique of literary culture. But it’s not for everyone. 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z The Handel biographer Charles Burney described the suites as combining “the profundity and learned art of the Germans with Italian grace and lightness.” Classical Recordings: ‘Handel: Keyboard Suites’ by Lisa Smirnova 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z The biographer was forced to devote most of his effort to Fermi’s work life. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Nor was he the most sensitive of souls, to judge from his biographers and now from Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner. Mr. Turner at Cannes: Portrait of the Artist as a Boar 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The documents have remained in the Swiss Literary Archives, viewed by a handful of scholars and biographers. The Talented Patricia Highsmith’s Private Diaries Are Going Public 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z One thing to like about this book is that, as you proceed, an autobiography of this important biographer — the artist as young blues fanatic — presents itself. The Music Biographer Peter Guralnick’s New Book Covers Many Subjects — Including Himself 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z One biographer insists that she preferred not to use make-up or deodorant. Exposed 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z To the artist and Freud biographer Lawrence Gowing, he said, “For me the paint is the person.” Lucian Freud, Adept Portraiture Artist, Dies at 88 2011-07-21T19:28:45Z Years spent together, as Broadwell had with Petraeus in Afghanistan, can make the biographer's experience intensely personal, whether sexual or not. Petraeus affair and the role of biographers 2012-11-14T18:16:03Z Walter Isaacson has established himself as the great American biographer of our time. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z It was this Pulitzer Prize-winning book that inspired Ronald Reagan to request the author, Edmund Morris, to be his official biographer. 17 Great Books About American Presidents for Presidents’ Day Weekend 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Graham Greene’s indefatigable biographer, Norman Sherry, included a valiant photograph of himself in search of facts on donkey in the final volume of his three-part bio. ‘Elizabeth Bishop’ Details a Poet’s Life. An Author’s, Too. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z "My mother thought I was dead," she told biographer Ray Coleman. Karen Carpenter's tragic story 2010-10-23T23:03:00Z She was secretary to Kafka’s friend, biographer and executor Max Brod, who ignored the German-language author’s dying wish to burn all his unpublished work. Israel's national library to share reunited Kafka archive online 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Her biographer Bob Spitz, author of "Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child", spoke to the BBC about the enduring mark she made in the kitchen and beyond. VIDEO: Julia Child's recipe for life 2012-08-16T00:30:01Z Typically, the biographer spends years in the archives, sifting through documents, folder by folder, box by endless box. An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Forgotten for most of the last century, Weston has acquired three new biographers. A Man in a Hurry – by Nick Harris, Helen Harris and Paul Marshall 2012-06-29T21:55:06Z Although the Everleighs left a colorful public record, their business was necessarily covert and not fully open to a biographer’s scrutiny. Books of The Times: A Life Built on Illusion: More Tease Than Strip 2010-12-19T23:12:36Z “It’s glorious and poignant that this veteran investigative reporter, who will forever be identified with Watergate, is wading back into the fray,” said Tim O’Brien, the Trump biographer and executive editor of Bloomberg View. Perspective | Reporter Carl Bernstein has seen it all, from Nixon to now. But nothing quite like Trump. 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Thatcher biographer Charles Moore, ex-editor of the Sunday and Daily Telegraph, in his former office in London. Margaret Thatcher biography heralds new chapter for former editor 2013-04-09T15:38:58Z A report of the purchases was first tweeted by Rockwell biographer Deborah Solomon on Thursday. ArtsBeat: Not Breaking Ties: Retaining Rockwell Family Heirlooms 2013-12-05T22:38:48Z In their book "The Faith of Donald J. Trump," Trump's evangelical biographers David Brody and Scott Lamb concurred: Trump would "protect Christianity"; he would be their "ultimate fighting champion." From Donald Trump to John Wayne: How to become a hero of the Christian Right 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z “There is no one like him. He belongs in the canon of American nonfiction prose,” his biographer Daniel Oppenheimer wrote in “Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art,” published last June. Art critic Dave Hickey, known for book ‘Air Guitar’, dies 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z “The Americans love the British royal family and when you have an American actress marrying a British royal prince, it is the stuff of fairy tales,” biographer Joseph said. When Harry weds Meghan: A week until Britain's royal wedding 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z Royal biographer Ingrid Seward said they might go to her children. The queen’s beloved corgis were always near. What happens to them now? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z As all successful biographers should do, Jones doesn’t cheerlead his own writing style by adding unnecessary flourishes or similes; he lets the subject’s actions and quotes energize the book. Review | A portrait of Dr. Seuss offers a look at the prankster workaholic behind the iconic characters 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z He was tougher on Jackson than previous biographers, notably Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., but was still criticized on occasion as too close to his subject. Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson scholar, dies at 91 2013-04-06T07:46:03Z He discovered, as biographer Edward Jablonski noted, that even Fred Astaire had more say in the orchestration of one of his best scores, "Shall We Dance," than Gershwin did. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z As previous biographers have discovered, it’s difficult to write an endearing biography of Bellow. Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Her tenure there is often considered to be the museum’s “golden era,” according to Bob Colacello, the Andy Warhol biographer, who sits on the boards of numerous arts organizations. Is Agnes Gund the Last Good Rich Person? 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z The intensity of Fallaci herself, the way she went to extremes, leaks into her biographer’s style. Review | Oriana Fallaci: the journalist, the agitator, the legend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z White’s shrewd, interlocking essays yield no new juicy gossip about the occasionally wayward and chronically manipulative director, but they draw from the huge trove of revelations by Donald Spoto, Patrick McGilligan and other biographers. Review | In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ it’s the contradictions that made the man 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z TJ Binyon, Pushkin's biographer, even suggests the play is "rather conservative", since it deals with a troubled time that ended only with the accession of the Romanovs. Boris Godunov – review 2012-11-29T12:07:28Z “It is not just the royal princesses who are being trolled, every royal journalist, every royal correspondent is being trolled as well,” royal biographer Claudia Joseph told Reuters. British royals appeal for online kindness after trolling of Kate... 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z “The two formed an immediate bond,” said Hugo Vickers, the biographer of Mr. Beaton and an old friend of Mr. Green’s. A Collector of People Along With Art 2011-04-06T23:34:47Z He told Gollancz's biographer Ruth Dudley Edwards how he used to exchange volumes of philosophy with his uncle from an early age. Hilary Rubinstein 2012-06-14T14:56:25Z Although Coetzee has said "all autobiography is storytelling, all writing is autobiography", and has published three volumes of fictionalised memoir, this is the first time he has given his full cooperation to a biographer. JM Coetzee's official biography to hit shelves this summer 2013-03-21T16:05:07Z Twain biographer Kaplan said he was "bitterly amused" by the new text. Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z Wolff, the Murdoch biographer, couldn’t help thinking the billionaire’s sons were taking advantage of the situation to achieve their goal of excising Ailes. The fall of Roger Ailes: He made Fox his ‘locker room’ — and now women are telling their stories 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Rather than sing the biographer’s lament, Brown embraces history’s lacunae. Review | In ‘150 Glimpses of the Beatles,’ bits and pieces make up a poignant portrait 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z He married a German woman, very briefly — a doctor about whom biographers have been able to discover very little. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z The living subjects of biographers usually hate even “authorized” books about themselves. Tina Brown on the Final Two Episodes of ‘The Crown’: Love and Duty 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z She began each writing session with a stiff drink – “not to perk her up”, according to her biographer, Andrew Wilson, “but to reduce her energy levels, which veered towards the manic”. Bacon and eggs for every meal: absurd diets of the rich and famous 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z This isn’t a memoir; it’s a terrifically astute portrait of Leonard Cohen by a biographer who deeply understands him. Rock ’n’ Roll and Write 2012-11-22T21:38:44Z He assails the sanctification of Malcolm X, saying that his most prominent biographer, the late Columbia University professor Manning Marable, “accords his hero a stature in memory that he lacked in history.” On Matters of Race, Randall Kennedy Demands Thinking Over Feeling 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Madison Hemings said that his mother “implicitly relied” on Jefferson’s promises, a statement that troubled me when I first wrote about Hemings — subjects often exasperate biographers. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z He enlisted the biographer as the show’s historical adviser. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z “A biographer wants his story to be not only interesting but literarily valuable,” Wallace wrote. ArtsBeat: David Foster Wallace, Self-Help Reader 2011-04-11T19:20:13Z “When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same,” the 70-year-old presumptive Republican nominee once told a biographer. Confident. Incorrigible. Bully: Little Donny was a lot like candidate Donald Trump 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Decades of suppressing her own talents and desires in support of her husband’s career begin to unravel when he wins the Nobel Prize for literature and a biographer probes the couple’s life. Like 'The Wife,' Glenn Close says she's a late bloomer 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z How long does he inspect “the device”? This narrator, who pretends to know only the kind of evidence available to a biographer, won’t say. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Though his biographers emphasize Jones’s strange childhood devotion to and obsession with the Bible—this despite his irreligious parents—they also record his long-standing commitment to achieving racial equality. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Because maybe, just maybe, contrary to all the squawks of journalists and unauthorised biographers, a person's own version of events does have validity. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z Almost all children at some point idealize their parents, but biographers, a theory holds, never outgrow the early instinct for idealization. Calvin Tomkins Continues to Chronicle Artists 2011-10-04T20:34:15Z Dickens’ character was a cocktail of empathy and cruelty that would test any biographer’s mettle. Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy 2011-10-19T10:00:49Z A problem for a biographer is that d'Annunzio's personal appeal seems to have lain largely in his voice and in his sexual prowess, which makes it difficult to convey on the page. The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio – poet, seducer and preacher of war by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review 2013-02-22T12:00:01Z Both were underway well before the tumult of current events, but both biographers recognize that recent political trends have made their subject especially charged. Can History’s ‘Great Man’ Theory Explain Hitler? 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Holmes, biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, is perhaps best known for The Age of Wonder, his engaging study of the impact of science in the early industrial era. Book reviews roundup: Margaret Thatcher, Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air and A Place in the Country 2013-05-03T16:29:01Z That Hamilton helped legal clients and family members, including his sister-in-law Angelica Schuyler Church, buy and sell enslaved people, has been noted by biographers. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z “Is he watering them himself?” she wondered of Mr. Isaacson, a journalist turned historian and biographer. You Show Me Your Décor, I’ll Show You Mine 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The essays from George Washington through Kennedy that appear online were written by Frank Freidel, a Harvard University scholar and biographer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who died in 1993. Historians question White House presidential bios 2011-04-05T13:26:27Z Mr. Crouch is a novelist, cultural critic and biographer whose most recent book is “Kansas City Lightning,” the first part of a planned two-volume biography of the jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. Nine Authors, Playwrights Win $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes 1456-09-16T05:00:00Z Eliot, who guarded his privacy fiercely, died in 1965, having stated his wish to keep biographers from stirring the ashes of his life. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z By turning to scientific matters and shifting from single to multiple subjects Holmes has evaded the fate of many literary biographers, who are struggling to stay in the game. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z “They say it was the longest article ever written in The New York Times,” Mr. Trump told Mr. D’Antonio, the biographer. Trump Scorns the Pop Culture World He Once Cultivated 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Recent biographers have focused on the early decades, with Elizabeth’s last years acting as a postscript to the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Smart redhead 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z But biographers pick and choose what bits to quote. Twain's memoirs 2010-05-24T13:33:00Z How does the reader fare in this affectionate transaction between president and biographer? Jon Meacham’s ‘Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z In the end, however, I have to quote Voltaire's biographer and admit that although I might not like what Dogar writes, I would defend to the death her right to write it. Tackling real-life characters in fiction is fine ? as long as you do it well 2010-06-22T13:43:00Z It is pleasing to find a biographer who digs so deep to unearth extenuating circumstances for her subject. The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde's Nemesis by Linda Stratmann – review 2013-04-17T13:00:03Z American novelist biographer Charles Shields said that "To Kill a Mockingbird" found success in part because "it poses the fundamental question of how do I get along with people who are different from me?" 50 years on, new book from 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z James Lord, the biographer, was—to me—a remarkable man whose life did not become atrophied, though his friends found him secretive and devious. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z We’re sure to find out, because it’s the biographer’s job to tell us. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z In a mini-chapter titled “Euphemisms,” Shapland lists the ways biographers referred to McCullers’s lovers as “traveling companions,” “special friends” and so on. She Found Carson McCullers’s Love Letters. They Taught Her Something About Herself. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z I don't know what the gaps might be between her published writing and the context of her life, but it's the job of a biographer to find out. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Despite having won two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, Stiles notes that working as a historical biographer without a job at a university is freeing but financially stressful. These books are brought to you with the help of Uncle Sam. 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z |
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