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As Harrison later told his biographer, he did not enjoy the subject.

In Saintsbury's view, They are curiously, interestingly, almost enthrallingly bad.

John acted as a secretary, and Edward was Milton's first biographer.

Turing's biographer Andrew Hodges (1983 107) has noted and discussed this confusion.

Freud s biographer, Ernest Jones, was mistaken in calling Freud the Darwin of the mind.

She may have been, in the words of her biographer Muriel Spark, a little in love with Jane.

Thatcher's biographer John Campbell claimed the report was a piece of journalistic mischief making .

According to a biographer, Simone took medication for a condition from the mid 1960s on.

After Sagan's death, his friend Lester Grinspoon disclosed this information to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson.

In later life, however, she told biographer Tim Heald that Philip was an English gentleman .

Biographer Graham Robb suggests that as he discovered the Novel, Balzac discovered himself.

The timing of the decision was also significant as Robb explained The disappearance of the father coincides with the adoption of the nobiliary particle.

Fleming's biographer, Andrew Lycett, notes that Fleming had no obvious qualifications for the role.

Biographer Jack Zipes writes that the brothers were happy in Steinau and clearly fond of country life .

Jerry Bruce Jenkins (born September 23, 1949 in Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American novelist and biographer.

Biographer Joseph Wood Krutch described the essay as a rather highly ingenious exercise in the art of rationalization .

Decades later, Jobs would tell his biographer Walter Isaacson Obviously it was named for my daughter.

Biographer Allan Nevins wrote in Grover Cleveland the greatness lies in typical rather than unusual qualities.

t's not forcing the issue to suggest that the Holocaust hovers over Barton Fink , writes biographer Ronald Bergan.

According to his biographer, He looked as if for the first time he had discovered there was evil in the world.

Truman biographer David McCullough warns that about 50 years must pass before historians can really appraise a presidency.

According to Francisco's biographer Ubiratan Machado, ...even a blind homeless man donated the donations he had received that day .

Legacy According to one of her biographers, Giles St Aubyn, Victoria wrote an average of 2,500 words a day during her adult life.

This wording is similar to the comment of biographer Gerald Weales that Odets' characters struggle for life amidst petty conditions .

Religious and philosophical beliefs As a young man, Lincoln was a religious skeptic, or, in the words of a biographer, an iconoclast.

Biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli described her ballad I'll Remember (1994) as an attempt to tone down her provocative image.

James Anthony Froude ( 23 April 1818 20 October 1894) was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine .

In Orlando , the techniques of historical biographers are being ridiculed the character of a pompous biographer is being assumed in order for it to be mocked.

His biographer Asser gave a detailed description of Alfred's symptoms and this has allowed modern doctors to provide a possible diagnosis.

Edward's biographer Philip Magnus suggests that Gladstone may have become a whipping boy for the King's general irritation with the Liberal government.

Biographer H. W. Brands argues that The most obvious drawback to the home schooling Roosevelt received was uneven coverage of the various areas of human knowledge.

Plutarch ( , Ploútarkhos , later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus () c. AD 46 AD 120), was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia .

This assumes Hiedler was willing to marry Maria in this situation, and Adolf Hitler biographer Joachim Fest thinks this is too contrived and unlikely to be true.

Biographer Mark Bego wrote, No one in the history of show business has had a career of the magnitude and scope of Cher's.

The chief contemporary authority for the life of Photios is his bitter enemy, Nicetas the Paphlagonian, the biographer of his rival Ignatios.

Manuel José Quintana y Lorenzo (April 11, 1772 March 11, 1857), was a Spanish poet and man of letters.

Foaly corrects him, saying ...That's professor Moriarty ... Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.

Biographer Andrew Hodges suggests that Turing may have arranged the cyanide experiment deliberately, to give his mother some plausible deniability.

Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad noted that, nevertheless, many of the songs on the album reflected Cobain and various incidents in his life.

The sitter, Lisa del Giocondo,was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany, and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo.

In the ensuing conversation with Harty, as described by biographer David Buckley, the singer made hardly any sense at all throughout what was quite an extensive interview.

His biographer, translator John Nathan, suggests that the coup attempt was only a pretext for the ritual suicide of which Mishima had long dreamed.

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck ( 29 October 1740 19 May 1795), was a Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh.

Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad argued, Ironically, it was the restrictions of the Sub Pop sound that helped the band find its musical identity .