A biographer can seek corroboration elsewhere; a personal memoir does not have that advantage.
One biographer credits him with "discovering gravitation," and where would we be without that?
The great man once walked 15 miles to Dunfermline wrapped only in his thoughts and his dressing gown, according to an early biographer.
"I'd like to create an integrated television set," Jobs told Walter Isaacson, his authorized biographer. "it would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud."..
Now old and ailing, she summons a biographer to tell the truth about her extraordinary life: Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth remains an ever-present pain.
"They can't possibly stick with it," says Murdoch's biographer, Michael Wolff.
Under the tutelage of Cosmas, John made such rapid progress that, in the enthusiastic language of his biographer, he soon equalled Diophantus in algebra and Euclid in geometry.
The cover and corresponding story, penned by editor-in-chief and Diana biographer Tina Brown, imagines what her life would be like today if tragedy had not struck on Aug. 31, 1997.
We can begin to answer the question with a sentence by Irving's biographer.
A new study of Joyce by Gordon Bowker, a biographer, claims that Ireland's greatest novelist preferred to travel on a British passport.
As Frost's official biographer, I mentally filed this information.
Linus and his students at Liege were among the more tenacious critics. Newton's biographer Westfall seems to feel he was overreacting.
The biographer of Thabo Mbeki revealed in November that the South African President remained unconvinced that HIV caused AIDS.
He was, concludes Niall Ferguson, the first biographer to be given access to Warburg's private papers, the “presiding genius” of the City for more than 30 years after the second world war.
"He was very poor, and these canvases were expensive," said John Richardson, the Picasso biographer.
