biography

• The reader of his biography is apt to miss in it the signs of that heroic or idealist detachment which he was never weary of extolling in his verse. —  Robert Browning
• The weak point in this biography is the picture which it outlines of the relations between Brother Elias and the founder of the Order: from the chapters devoted to the last two years we receive a very clear impression that Elias was named by Francis to succeed him. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
• Unless she was older than that, and her biography was a masterful collection of inspired lies. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
• Of the writings about him the following—apart from the obvious books of reference in American biography—are the main sources of information I. PROSE WRITINGS OF AMERICA. —  John James Audubon
• No book published in Jane Austen's lifetime bore her name on the title-page; she was never lionized by society; she was never two hundred miles from home; she died when forty-two years of age, and it was sixty years before a biography was attempted or asked for. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14

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