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Examples

  • In her as-told-to autobiography Lena by Richard Schickel, Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an interracial married couple.

    Lena Horne Passes « 2010

  • And while the magazine features an as-told-to essay by chef Harold McGee, with illustrations, about alkaline noodles—the kinky yellow noodles used in ramen—and alkalinity in food, the app offers an appearance by Mr. McGee explaining the subject while sitting at a teacher's desk that appears to be flying through space.

    iPad App or Magazine? A Chef Orders One of Each Kimberly Chou 2011

  • Several of its chapters end with lively dialogues between Mr. Peres and his co-writer that are a creative way of handling the teller/as-told-to relationship, and some of Mr. Peres's personal reminiscences of Ben-Gurion and his entourage are delightful.

    The Line Between Bold and Reckless Hillel Halkin 2011

  • Liberally adapted from the as-told-to autobiography of middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta, "Raging Bull" — as predominantly imagined by Messrs. Scorsese and De Niro, though Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin take screenplay credits — is raw and bruising, both physically and psychologically.

    Fighting Hard to Be Seen Steve Dollar 2010

  • And while the magazine features an as-told-to essay by chef Harold McGee, with illustrations, about alkaline noodles—the kinky yellow noodles used in ramen—and alkalinity in food, the app offers an appearance by Mr. McGee explaining the subject while sitting at a teacher's desk that appears to be flying through space.

    iPad App or Magazine? A Chef Orders One of Each Kimberly Chou 2011

  • As the queen of the 1970s blaxploitation movies, Grier stands assured that her as-told-to autobiography will be welcomed by film-studies collections high and low.

    HW Pick: Foxy: My Life in Three Acts « 2010

  • This small flaw, I guess, must be laid at the door of her "as-told-to" amanuensis, John Miller.

    Judi Dench's wry, shy take on a glorious stage career 2011

  • Most early stories about him spelled his name “Cassidy,” but when the Washington Post ran an as-told-to series under his byline in 1930, this was persuasively established that “Cassiday” was correct.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Life magazine ran an as-told-to feature that November that included photos of the punishment of the Tibetan border guards, who were lashed and put in stocks.

    An Odyssey Through Wartime China Stephen Miller 2010

  • Most early stories about him spelled his name “Cassidy,” but when the Washington Post ran an as-told-to series under his byline in 1930, this was persuasively established that “Cassiday” was correct.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

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