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biographer

bahy o gruh fer

  • n  someone who writes an account of a person's life

  • He declared, "We will save them," according to biographer Andrew Mango.
  • Though he was popular with students especially, according to Hubble biographer Gale Christianson, with the girls, who were evidently charmed by his affected British diction and .
  • He was a historical romantic, his biographer Edmund Morris says, and that's about right.
News & Articles

  • Anne Frank: The Biography
    New material allows German historian and biographer Melissa Müller to offer a deeper, more nuanced view of the world's most famous Holocaust diarist.
    June 11, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
  • Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story Gleams with an Advertorial Slickness
    A good talker can be a mixed blessing for the documentary biographer. Tabloid 's Joyce McKinney, for instance, the beauty queen alleged to have abducted and raped a Mormon missionary in the 1970s, proved hypnotically chatty. Every nutty tangent and girlish inflection, as presented by Errol...
    June 11, 2013 - The Village Voice
  • 12 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before June 16
    MONDAY, JUNE 10 Screening: John Richardson: The Art of Picasso at Florence Gould Hall Checkerboard Film Foundation presents a screening of the documentary about the Picasso biographer John Richardson. —Michael H. Miller Read More
    June 10, 2013 - The New York Observer
Quotes

  • Geoffrey Ward in USA Today
    I think the reason he is such an important FDR biographer is that he went at him with fewer illusions than anybody before him had,Ward says. "The Lion and the Fox was such an important book. It pointed the way to the notion that Roosevelt...
  • Gary Sinise in London Free Press
    But there is plenty in the movie that is right out of the horse's mouth, too,Sinise says. "Marshall Frady (the biographer Frankenheimer used for his roadmap) spent a lot of time with Wallace and he wrote in-depth about him from an inside...
  • Tim Jeal in United Press International
    He was our greatest land explorer,Jeal said. "And I can say that as I am Livingstone's biographer too. The essential picture of Stanley is wrong. It is sad and ridiculous that this inane comment is known by millions, whereas his work as an...

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