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Here Mr. Holroyd encounters another of the biographer's problems: how to tell a story that has been told before.
The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011
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"A Book of Secrets" is very much in this mode and is really about the romance of the biographer's quest—what Mr. Holroyd describes as "an intense involvement with absent people from the past."
The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011
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Combining the biographer's familiarity with Yeats and the historian's grasp of the 19th-century milieu, Mr. Foster makes it possible to hear what might otherwise be disparate literary voices as a continuing conversation, into which Yeats began to introduce his own perspective.
Putting Sweet Sounds Together Wes Davis 2011
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But in this curious case, Feynman has to be consulted to make sense of his biographer's narrative.
A Curious Mind Carl Rollyson 2011
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Angle and distance, time and place, are of course the biographer's concern as he pieces together absent lives.
Gift Guide: Best of Biography Carl Rollyson 2011
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The biographer's official Mount Holyoke resume omits any mention of Vietnam, though Ellis's own choice of words at times would not raise eyebrows among those he led to believe he served in the war.
Joseph Ellis 2010
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He blamed the biographer's compunction to make men into movements, into types, archetypes, and so on.
Joe Woodward: Biography: The Falsest Art? Joe Woodward 2010
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The biographer's advice for the men and women who wish to occupy the White House?
The Leadership Secrets of George Washington Brian Bolduc 2012
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He blamed the biographer's compunction to make men into movements, into types, archetypes, and so on.
Joe Woodward: Biography: The Falsest Art? Joe Woodward 2010
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None is better than "A Book of Secrets" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 258 pages, $26) , a romance of the biographer's quest—what Mr. Holroyd describes as "an intense involvement with absent people from the past," in this case with English politician Ernest Beckett (1856-1917) and the women he loved.
Gift Guide: Best of Biography Carl Rollyson 2011
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