Recently, I spoke with Michael D'Antonio, one of Trump's biographers.
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This is all exactly the sort of stuff biographers love.
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Few biographers, however, possess the narrative talents of Edmund Morris.
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Ms. Morris and her husband became biographers almost by accident.
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For decades, biographers tiptoed around the question of their sexuality.
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Beam, like Nabokov's biographers, traces the rift to several causes.
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Two biographers, however, said Ali actually lost the medal unintentionally.
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Later biographers found evidence that this was not true at all.
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Today, psychoanalytic interpretations tend to be tittered at by Luther biographers.
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Many biographers, including Isaacson, assume that Salaì was essentially cut off.
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Atlas and I grew up and got old together as biographers.
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Why do people speak to biographers about their late famous friends?
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Biographers say Eliot ordered Hale's letters to him to be burned.
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How many biographers does it take to change a light bulb?
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Biographers have plenty of theories, but Davies' film offers few definitive answers.
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The living subjects of biographers usually hate even "authorized" books about themselves.
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Yet those questions are barely answerable in earnest books by thoughtful biographers.
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We know no one in life the way biographers know their subjects.
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But behind the scenes, as biographers have noted, the marriage was crumbling.
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From the outset, Dann takes liberties that few contemporary biographers have dared.
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"People in the streets did not only gape at him," the biographers wrote.
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That said, "Barry" leaves plenty of room for future Obama biographers to operate.
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Over the years, biographers and reporters would attempt to get close to Lee.
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The English national Colin Wilson is one of Rasputin's many, many untrustful biographers.
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Coe: It's interesting to me that Washington's biographers have fixated on his childlessness.
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"He was acting against type," said Andrew Gimson, another of Mr. Johnson's biographers.
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Nonfiction Barack Obama vexed his biographers by beating them to his origin story.
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Rekindling Mr. Lehman's public-spirited legacy has proved a heavy lift for biographers.
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Biographers have long debated the reasons for Rossini's withdrawal, failing to reach consensus.
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This, said one of his biographers, is the key to his political magic.
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And according to Curnutt, few people besides biographers and historians have ever read it.
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Whom do you consider the best writers (novelists, essayists, biographers, journalists, poets) working today?
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As such, they're a gift to the popular press and a boon to biographers.
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As previous biographers have discovered, it's difficult to write an endearing biography of Bellow.
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The unconventional lives of artists and writers have given biographers plenty to write about.
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Some biographers say the enthusiastic crowd was just too noisy, making the film unusable.
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Biographers, historians and Mr. Trump's own confidants have not been shy about drawing parallels.
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To his own credit (and to biographers), Dalí long believed himself to be impotent.
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Privately, she will be saddened by the turn of events, one of her biographers believes.
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Who are the best writers — novelists, essayists, biographers, journalists, poets — working today, in your opinion?
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"It's about as serious as it can get," says Austen Ivereigh, one of Francis's biographers.
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These obligations sometimes frustrated Carson, but not half as much as they frustrate her biographers.
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"You could just apply," Calvin Tomkins, one of Rauschenberg's biographers, once said of Change, Inc.
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The cause was heart failure and pneumonia, said Scott and Jan MacGillivray, Ms. Jean's biographers.
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Biographers often get fed up with their subjects, with whom they have become grotesquely overfamiliar.
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Are the nonfiction excerpts — from presidential historians, Lincoln biographers, Civil War chroniclers — real or fake?
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One of her biographers, Patricia Clough, believes that Kohl may have been assaulted multiple times.
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Biographers, academics and journalists have embraced this idea, as have members of Mr. Trump's family.
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Although he never formally "came out," many academics and biographers believe Mr. Hughes was gay.
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Biographers have claimed that Kelly wasn't the first choice for the role of Princess of Monaco.
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As far as contemporary biographers go, I believe Walter Isaacson is in a class by himself.
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Biographers have tried to understand their emotional lives but have largely failed, most notably Edmund Morris.
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Previous biographers have hinted that the sexagenarian queen was smitten by the buccaneer in his 30s.
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"He does not believe in stare decisis, period," Justice Scalia told one of Justice Thomas's biographers.
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"Part of his appeal is that he upsets the grown-ups," said one of his biographers.
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In an age when so many visual artists are mixing mediums, biographers, too, are blurring boundaries.
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Biographers have a tendency to shoehorn every last tidbit of information they can into their books.
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Some biographers have seen this as a regressive streak or a sign of Brahms's military bent.
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Hagan is among those relatively rare biographers who keeps macro and micro in yin-yang balance.
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But the gaps from that period have made biographers leery of confirming whether she is related.
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Biographers are fond of dates, and I can be exact in this case: April 21, 1995.
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The documents have remained in the Swiss Literary Archives, viewed by a handful of scholars and biographers.
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Before Stone set out to make his film, he had met Snowden's chief biographers, Greenwald and Poitras.
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Unlike previous Jackie biographers, Taraborrelli decided to focus on Jackie's family, not John F. Kennedy's famous clan.
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Biographers are people, too, even if we're condemned to huddle in the shadow of our subjects' monumentality.
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"It's the kind of subculture that most people avoid," said Michael D'Antonio, one of Mr. Trump's biographers.
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He divides royal biographers into "fawners and psychos," and admits to a certain "delirium" of his own.
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His most extended comment, quoted by all biographers, came in a letter to his wife in 1856.
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" Echoing questions posed by other families besieged by biographers, he asked: "Where do you draw the line?
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It was from that moment, some of his biographers have said, that his commitment to conciliation weakened.
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And he has pursued lawsuits of his own, including a defamation case against one of his biographers.
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None of his 300 or more works survive; his thoughts came down through Lucretius and, later, biographers.
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Most of his biographers agree that, such were his personal qualities, only he could have done it.
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Some Jackson biographers find the parallels striking, not necessarily in the details but in the larger picture.
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Wilmot did all the things that literary biographers did in the 18th century to research a subject.
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Most artist biographers since Vasari agree that distinctive traits and personality types are endemic to the creative temperament.
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Unlike Ali's earlier biographers, I enjoyed total access to virtually all of the key players in his life.
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Life events other biographers pay most attention to are mentioned, but never given more than a few paragraphs.
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He wanted to show Americans the beauty of Chinese philosophy and its culture, his friends and biographers say.
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The PBS show combines reconstructions, archival clips and the recollections of acquaintances and biographers to tell the story.
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Her mother, Dorothy Dudley, and three sisters were involved in the arts, as biographers, poets, and theatrical impresarios.
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As a result, Mr Schwartz tussles with many of the same questions that have dogged previous Fermi biographers.
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But Ms. Merkel has taken privacy to another level — and not just on her health, her biographers say.
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You don't think of biographers as romantic figures or swashbuckling types, and their lives are not generally momentous.
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Still, scholars and biographers continue efforts to pierce the privacy of his life and his relationship with women.
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Biographers have mined Kafka's short and uneventful life for clues to his fiction for almost a hundred years.
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All three orphans became friends, and according to biographers, Ronald and Edith fell in love in that next year.
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His biographers and some critics note that most of the women and men in the Factory were lapsed believers.
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But according to his biographers, he also spent his childhood spying on the muscular boys working on neighboring farms.
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But certainly his biographers in the IOC have not done him any favors by covering him up so badly.
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The company began talking with biographers and family members to learn more about his journey from rebel to hero.
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"He imagined himself Iacocca's equal as an icon of American business," said Michael D'Antonio, one of Mr. Trump's biographers.
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Biographers have noted that he was married three times and was said to have physically abused his first wife.
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But TR never shared credit with anybody, and his biographers tended to paint McKinley as a kind of cipher.
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So great was Roosevelt's preoccupation with strength that nearly all of his biographers have felt obliged to explain it.
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"If there was an Olympic gold medal for chillaxing, he would win it," one inner sanctum member told his biographers.
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One of his biographers described the impact of the news as "a wave of sorrow" that swept across the world.
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Biographers note that, like Lúthien, Edith may have felt like she gave up her own world to join her husband's.
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Biographers tend to paint Carroll as one of two characters: an odd but gentle fellow, or a drug-addled pedophile.
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Biographers have also faced controversies regarding diagnoses of conditions in the deceased — specifically how accurate and meaningful these labels are.
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Unlike artists, who are almost professionally obliged to spread their emotions dazzlingly wide, biographers need to be organized and neat.
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You'll then have a one-on-one personal phone interview with one of Forevernote's talented biographers and share your stories.
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He succeeded, of course, and his notoriety poses a problem for biographers unlikely to discover anything new about the great aesthete.
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Beckett had a reputation for shunning biographers, but Bair found him obliging, if prone to mysterious disappearances and flashes of pique.
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The pairing of frenemies is a time-honored storytelling device used by biographers to help us understand their subjects more fully.
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You've got other Jogiches biographers and they just don't get the fact that she was in danger after they split up.
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She was the first British monarch to be photographed, according to biographers, and took a keen interest in the art form.
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Either because publishers demand it or authors prefer it, recent biographers have tried to squeeze the story into one extended volume.
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Her presence on stage was electric, according to biographers, although she had to contend with casual misogyny and politically motivated disdain.
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"They were the Nick and Nora of biographers," Christopher Buckley, the writer and longtime family friend, said in a phone interview.
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Hugo Vickers, whose book (excerpted in The Times) has just been published, confirms that her various biographers have stressed this point.
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THE MAN IN THE RED COATBy Julian Barnes Biographers usually tell the life story of a person with strong name recognition.
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His collection features works by many of golf's most prominent writers, players, historians, architects and biographers, dating back hundreds of years.
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It has almost never allowed any of Baldwin's correspondence to be published, or given biographers permission to quote a single word.
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This book shows how Victoria's girlish naughtiness turned into a regal, willful, complex nature that other biographers have tended to simplify.
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Who among the journalists and biographers and filmmakers and television producers in Britain has not produced a work about the royals?
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How do evangelicals explain their support for a thrice-married adulterer whose biographers have not found a man preoccupied with his salvation?
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She informs biographers that her teachers in Maine immediately recognized her artistic talent and that businessmen traveling to Maine regularly courted her.
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Catherine, infatuated by the handsome South American, made him a count; the claims of excitable biographers that they were lovers lack evidence.
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Since his death in 1980, books have multiplied like gravestones, now numbering in the hundreds, with his biographers falling into two camps.
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While some biographers suggest that Edison might have genuinely believed AC was a menace unto society—he was really pure of heart!
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It's perfectly legitimate, of course, for biographers to pay attention to their subjects' sex lives—or, in Gorey's case, their lack thereof.
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Ricks criticizes the very thing that makes Hess's study of Bragg's wartime career so valuable — his engagement with previous biographers and scholars.
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In her final years, she was known as the "old Buddha," a term that friendly biographers say was a term of endearment.
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Born in 1873, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette — whose more than 80 volumes include "Gigi" — had one of those lives that make biographers giddy.
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Biographers speculated that he had ingested the poison by dousing the apple with cyanide and eating it to disguise the toxin's taste.
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Several of his greatest biographers set out to tell the full story, but were nearly overcome by the immensity of the task.
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Literature does what life can't and what boring biographers won't: omit all the tedious bits that clot our days and signify nothing.
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This was, no doubt, lovely for her mother (and her biographers), but it can be rough going for even the committed Plathophile.
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As celebrity biographers go, he's humane but not easily fooled (Zinoman interviewed Letterman, as well as many others associated with his shows).
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Although biographers characterize Sekula as an unhinged savant, her work reflects discipline and acumen that make her firepower all the more unnerving.
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It was the writer Joan Acocella who told Sontag to come out on her own terms before she was outed by biographers.
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For decades the press has demonized Republicans (like George W. Bush) while covering Democrats like biographers smitten with their subject (Barack Obama).
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Hirsch faces tough competition with at least a dozen other video legacy biographers offering similar services from New York to Arizona to California.
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Biographers and historians have been tempted to make sense of the twists and turns in Robert Kennedy's life by dividing it in two.
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Literary biographers—writers who devote their lives to other writers' lives—are a confraternity of old soldiers who like to trade battle stories.
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This political dance with Gandhi — sometimes embracing his legacy, sometimes pushing him away — doesn't surprise one of his most acclaimed biographers, Ramachandra Guha.
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To be sure, people who leave copies of their own letters with literary executors permit them to make the letters available to biographers.
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Haskell seems to have done no primary research; she was told that her subject has a policy of not granting interviews to biographers.
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"I don't like to analyze myself because I might not like what I see," he confessed to one of his biographers, Michael D'Antonio.
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Reading this book, it seems clear that more readers and biographers should devote their time to this complex, intelligent and thoroughly un-boring woman.
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Biographers might complain that Bill's portrait of his wife was as slanted in its own way as the hostile portrait painted by the Republicans.
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His biographers have a hard time, at once starved and overwhelmed, tasked with constructing a man around the spectacular evidence of this disembodied mind.
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Only a handful of Bach's entries in Calov concern music, and these have received the most extensive — indeed, typically the only — attention from biographers.
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And biographers had already established that James Hughes, Langston's father, who had left the family shortly after his son's birth, was living in Buffalo.
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"In a sense, you're getting the truer Boris Johnson, which is not the clownish, cuddly fellow," said Sonia Purnell, another of Mr. Johnson's biographers.
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Peter Dausend and Elisabeth Niejahr, Mrs von der Leyen's biographers, compare her to a school pupil who takes on the strongest child in the playground.
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Now that the Times has let the cat out of the bag, biographers of both Faulkner and Wilde have a rich new source to mine.
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Some biographers say Bouteflika was born in Tlemcen, western Algeria, and others give his place of birth as Oujda, just over the border in Morocco.
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Indeed, it is best to view the Gospels as ancient biographies; where modern biographers narrate facts, Gospel writers both chronicled and inferred meaning from history.
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Biographers, however, often overlook a critical feature of Eisenhower's approach as a military commander: the Christian assumptions that subordinated his ego to a noble cause.
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Bolstered by interviews with King's previous biographers, friends and associates, the book traces the civil rights leader's last year and adds nuance to his legacy.
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Editors' Choice With this week's selection of titles, we put ourselves into the hands of experts: expert storytellers, expert thinkers, expert biographers of expert subjects.
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He and Wagstaff never had an affair — despite Mapplethorpe's fears, exhaustively documented by biographers — but Wagstaff was an important mentor and profoundly influenced Incandela's eye.
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Biographers, including the longtime editor Tina Brown, have documented how Diana tried to shape all this coverage by making herself selectively available and self-revelatory.
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Yet Hemingway's outsize life and controversial achievement has continued to be a magnet to biographers, and Dearborn is the first woman to join their company.
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For start-up money, he has told biographers, he sold a prototype electronic translation machine to Sharp, the Japanese electronics company, for about $1 million.
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While biographers have made hay out of that outsider status, it does not seem to have fazed Nevelson, who appears temperamentally inclined toward never quite belonging.
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So for me, just on a personal basis, let me just say thank you and it&aposs a thrill to be among America&aposs greatest biographers.
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He was born a slave and became a world leader; even in his own time biographers reached back to the Romans, to Spartacus, for a comparison.
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Crews is confident that Freud, during his separation from Martha, masturbated regularly, "making himself sick with guilt over it" (something he says Freud's biographers covered up).
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Stephen Bates, the latest of a long line of royal biographers, has floated the possibility that the prince's death may be the occasion of her resignation.
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For decades, it was accepted that he shot himself, and the movies concurred with the biographers; if Kirk Douglas used a gun, it must be true.
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"The hamburger confiscation section of the Five Year Plan never got enough play from Stalin biographers," Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, quipped on Twitter about Gorka's speech.
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THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENTS (Tuesday) Biographers of recent American presidents gather for this talk about the current election season and the state of political commentary.
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Born in 1908 (or 1911 — biographers do not agree), Petry was trained as a pharmacist, worked as a reporter, married, and would soon be a mother.
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With the addition of Marshall, the new swing justice was William Brennan, who, as his biographers highlight in their book title, was a champion to liberals.
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Madison Hemings said that his mother "implicitly relied" on Jefferson's promises, a statement that troubled me when I first wrote about Hemings — subjects often exasperate biographers.
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The siblings were exceptionally close, and Max's comment about the truth of Freud's "incest barrier" taboo has only fueled biographers' speculation about whether they breached it.
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Lee started studying martial arts when he was 13 but his instructor stopped personally teaching him when he learned that Lee's mother was part white, biographers say.
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We sat down with two of the president's biographers to ask those who know Trump well about what they have watched as the 100-day marker approaches.
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He seemed to be preparing for the role for most of his adult life, which was so colorless and conventional it might have been taunting future biographers.
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In other words, while more critical biographers paint the picture of an arrogant genius who manipulated those around him with no remorse, Brando is slightly more blunt.
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" In the book she tells her biographers, "I try to give people the picture in not too many words, and I strive to find the right words.
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Having produced three previous editions of this quadrennial special, director Michael Kirk (sharing writing credit with Mike Wiser) reaches far and wide, relying on friends, journalists and biographers.
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Like other biographers, Stedman Jones places Capital, the first volume of which finally appeared in 1867, within the context of the economic boom Europe experienced in mid-century.
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Trump himself was accused of domestic assault by his first wife, Ivana Trump, in their 1990 divorce deposition, obtained by one of Donald's Trump's biographers, Harry Hurt III.
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" She has not cooperated with Mr. Shepard's biographers and scoffs at "stories about me being carried out of Max's Kansas City drunk and sobbing and screaming Sam's name.
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As for Chanel, biographers say she used the Holocaust to her advantage, both dating a Nazi intelligence officer and trying to cheat Jewish businessmen she had dealings with.
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Only occasionally does he bog down in academic quibbles with previous biographers or tortured reasoning (citing, at one point, recent scientific studies about the curative power of prayer).
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These are the years most biographers linger on, extracting all the juices, because they're when an unusual life begins to diverge from the mundane ones that surround it.
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In the early aughts, the French chef Bernard Loiseau was so obsessed with perfecting the caramelization of cauliflower that according to his biographers, it might have killed him.
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If anyone outside Trump's family knows what's behind his public mask, it's his biographers, the people who've studied his life, followed him around, and spent hours interviewing him.
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As biographers Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher describe him in their book, Trump Revealed, the president's father, Fred Trump, was also a disciplinarian, a workaholic, and a skinflint.
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"For electoral reasons, but also out of conviction, he has adopted a language that pleases those who look back nostalgically at fascism," says another of his biographers, Alessandro Franzi.
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"[Donald Trump and his advisers] were desperate to give off the impression that the Slovenian model was not just beautiful, but also smart and well-educated," the biographers claim.
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There's nothing wrong with that, necessarily—most biographers are infatuated with their subjects—but here history is revised and the record buffed up to the point of being implausible.
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According to their biographers, their average dinners consisted of two steaks and a pint of Scotch for Welles, and three steaks and three bowls of ice cream for Hitchcock.
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A host of earlier biographers (most notably Alan Bullock, Joachim Fest and Ian Kershaw) have advanced theories about Hitler's rise, and the dynamic between the man and his times.
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There is something quixotic, in the end, about trying to define Edward Gorey according to any one social or historical context—although that, of course, is what biographers do.
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An actor as well as a playwright, he reinvented himself so convincingly as an Irishman that his masquerade was only revealed, by biographers, a dozen years after his death.
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What Trump Said The facts Ronald Reagan made no attempts to build a border wall, according to biographers of the 40th president and journalists who covered the Reagan administration.
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Of them all, it is perhaps Roosevelt who has been best served by his biographers, though the task of telling his life story has never been an easy one.
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According to his biographers Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe, he was impressed by the degree to which his fellow filmmaker Jacques Rivette incorporated improvisation in a fictional framework.
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O'Sullivan's book is strongest when she positions the Wildes within the larger framework of Irish history; many Wilde biographers glide over not only his mother but also his Irishness.
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Both Friedan's and Steinem's biographers conclude that the confusion was an oversight, not a conspiracy, but at the time Friedan accused NWPC of ballot fraud and hired a lawyer.
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Since then, the legwork has fallen to biographers and independent researchers, including a Washington, D.C., tour guide named Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, the central figure in the new documentary series.
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As a young man, Goethe fell in love regularly; biographers define the periods of his life by the women who presided over them and the literary works they inspired.
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First, he and Elsie destroyed many of his letters, manuscripts and notes, giving Mr Mariani less to work with than recent biographers of, for example, James Merrill and Gore Vidal.
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Leave aside, for a moment, the fact that this is sexist; future presidential biographers will have the joy of plumbing the depths of Trump's fascination with women and their blood.
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Along the way, Atlas revisits his childhood in Chicago, his formative time at Oxford (where he studied with the noted Joyce scholar Richard Ellmann) and the works of classic biographers.
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Mr. Tate told one of her biographers, Peter Richmond, that the real shows began after their nightclub gigs had ended, when the band jammed with her in her hotel suite.
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One of many challenges for biographers of the Dublin-born satirist and political writer is his "tendency to love and hate things simultaneously," the author of this magisterial study writes.
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Jean's brother Teddy, in his far weightier memoir "True Compass," has already worked this ground, as have scores of biographers, but Jean has a few new stories of her own.
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Although many of these deeds were indubitably cruel and cavalierly murderous, Marwell, like other biographers and scholars before him, insists upon stripping away the exaggerated aspects of the Mengele legend.
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Steven Fullwood: I was moved by this idea that she allowed someone to film her life after many years of telling biographers that she would never write about her own life.
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Recent biographers have focused on the early decades, with Elizabeth's last years acting as a postscript to the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots and the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
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Though readers, critics, and especially biographers have long romanticized the discovery of caches of personal effects in the homes of writers, the ins-and-outs of their unearthing are decidedly unglamorous.
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Hence the frustration of biographers who peel away layer after layer of the psyches of history's greatest criminals only to discover, in Gertrude Stein's words, that there is no there there.
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"The way it was handled was graceless — without making a pun," Mr. Newhouse was quoted as saying by one of his biographers, Thomas Maier, in a 1995 article in The Quill.
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"Bellow's bad temper in the late '60s was by no means directed exclusively at would-be biographers, radical students and aggrieved wives," Leader begins a sentence, apologetically, on just Page 20003.
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To critics and biographers, his outsize claims of being "huge," as he said repeatedly in 2015, were evidence of an overweening ego that constantly needed to be fed and shown deference.
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Again, Hitler's biographers have barely noticed this obvious application of drugs, even though it is worth mentioning because of its strong euphorigenic potential for the critical phase after the assassination attempt.
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Critics and biographers have been arguing for decades about whether or not there was anything sexual about Barrie's affection for the boys, and the question has never been settled to anyone's satisfaction.
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Biographers have made up figures about her, from the number of enslaved people she rescued to the bounty on her head, while others have misquoted her, including Hillary Clinton and Kanye West.
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His strict middle-class morality may seem uninspired, but, as his biographers T. C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel have pointed out, he doesn't appear to have been petty or hypocritical.
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In pursuit of Westport connections to "Gatsby," they tracked down a diary by one of the Fitzgeralds' friends that they said biographers had not seen (it was in an estate lawyer's office).
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The essential Trumpian conundrum: he seems the most legible of men, yet, for all the fine work of his many biographers, none has figured out what truly goes on inside his head.
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CNN asked a group of activists, historians and King biographers to elaborate on this coincidence by answering one question: What can Americans bracing for the Trump era learn from the life of King?
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The suggestion is that The Shadow in the Garden is written on behalf of all the biographers whose honesty about their subjects was interpreted as gossip, or whose readability was maligned as salaciousness.
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Lear" can grow numbing, it's because at a certain point Uglow finds herself — as biographers of such social, peripatetic figures often do — writing a lot of variations on: "And then he went here.
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Perhaps because of this, some biographers and literary critics have framed the relationship's open nature negatively, as something the couple made it through, rather than as a key element of their love's longevity.
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As his biographers Robert and Mary Bagg reveal, he experienced serious depression and addiction, and he suffered that private apocalypse known only by the very old, who lose everything they ever loved, slowly.
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One of Coltrane's earliest biographers, C.O. Simpkins, described the quartet's shows in these years — with Mr. Jones lighting fires and Mr. Tyner splashing them with multihued harmonies — as a kind of euphoric cleanse.
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Ramabai's critique of the Hindu patriarchy and embrace of Christianity extracted a heavy price, according to her biographers: It led to her marginalization in India and her ultimate omission from mainstream history books.
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There is nothing of significance in her book that the small army of Wilson biographers and scholars of the Progressive era have not been narrating and chewing over since his death in 1924.
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"Biographers broke into the house and rearranged the furniture to their liking," she writes, objecting to the kind of facile-seeming connections made by literary scholars between an author's life and her writing.
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Sperber and Stedman Jones accept the story, as does the author of the standard English-language biography, David McLellan, although one of Engels's biographers, Terrell Carver, thinks that the evidence is not conclusive.
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If earlier biographers like Lindop helped rescue De Quincey from his exclusive affiliation with drug culture and set him once again alongside the Romantics, Wilson makes it clear just how close that connection was.
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" Her biographers say the quality of her reasoning, her mental acuity, her stamina and her public engagement mean "there is no question that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg continues to 'do the job full steam.
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"She's the last one standing, and that makes her both strong and weak at the same time," said Stefan Kornelius, one of her biographers and a political analyst for the daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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Soon, however, she realizes that her project differs from the sort that biographers and writers of cultural histories are often tasked with: There is no dearth of material about Madonna, but an overwhelming excess.
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For biographers and journalists, Spielberg's estrangement from his father, which lasted for years, has become the figure in the carpet—Spielberg has made film after film touching on fathers in one way or another.
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Shapland's nonfiction debut isn't a biography of McCullers, with whom she feels a powerful kinship, though it fills in key absences in the record left by McCullers's biographers, who downplayed her affairs with women.
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An operation for urinary stones as a teenager is likely to have left him sterile or impotent, and may explain why he did not have children, according to John Seigenthaler, one of his biographers.
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He could have fallen into a debilitating depression but he overcame his injury through positive visualization, and he used that time to write his groundbreaking book, "Jeet Kune Do," says Thomas, one of his biographers.
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Rickey wanted people to think that he—and only he—was responsible for the breaking of baseball's color barrier, and in the ensuing years he would dictate this version of events to sportswriters and biographers.
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Jackson's is an essentially sympathetic account of de Gaulle in London—which does not keep de Gaulle from seeming even more of an egotist and a prima donna than his previous biographers had made him.
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Biographers want psychological access, but Hoover, though the records he left behind are vast, has the quality of not being personally present in a life that, for a long while, produced one triumph after another.
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" Mr. Garrow, whose book included jabs at Mr. Maraniss and other Obama biographers, said the comment was "utterly and completely false," and that it should not be repeated in this article because it was "defamatory.
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Until these materials were made available to researchers, the portrait that Roosevelt had cultivated during his life, one largely accepted by his biographers, was of a man gilded with optimism, unflappable, self-composed, self-confident.
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In addition to paintings of relatives, lovers and friends, she created self-portraits that showed her "grappling with her own identity," one of her biographers, Yashodhara Dalmia, wrote in "Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life" (2006).
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I know that a lot of biographers in the introduction to their books write about what they do on Washington's birthday or how they grew up with him or have a personal relationship with him.
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" Even as a young man, as one of Kennedy's biographers, Robert Dallek, writes, he was "put off by strict ideological advocates" and pat answers to difficult questions; he "prided himself on his realism and pragmatism.
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Biographers have long puzzled over what motivated the German-born, cosmopolitan Brandt to reside for most of his long life in Great Britain, a nation coping with its waning imperial status and bouts of economic instability.
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That's why I didn't expect many revelations from ABC's latest special, The Story Of Diana, which painstakingly inspects Diana's life with the help of interviews with historians, biographers, friends, and even her own brother, Charles Spencer.
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Other biographers have noted Paul's infidelity during his engagement to the actress Jane Asher, but Norman uncovers a Bieber's-worth of girlfriends, groupies and pregnancy scares that Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, became expert at hiding.
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We should leave to Secretary Clinton's future biographers any speculation about what impact, if any, living in the White House as first lady had on how she later chose to handle her office communications at State.
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"That fledgling national pride that had been kept down for so long was allowed to come out, because at the very top was someone who was incredibly sensitive," said Evelyn Roll, one of Ms. Merkel's biographers.
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In his distillation of the many volumes by earlier biographers, Mr. Chiles distinguishes Smith's local progressivism from the national liberal agenda that Franklin D. Roosevelt labeled the New Deal and imposed in response to the Depression.
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These wretched facts, revealed in Megan Marshall's new biography, "Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), derive from a trove of letters, unknown to previous biographers, that Bishop wrote to her psychiatrist, in 1947.
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The elements of Trump's management style, from Trump's own words, interviews with former staff, current staff, and three of his biographers: Throwing people off balance: "He's spent his entire life doing this," says Trump biographer Gwenda Blair.
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Mr Salvini has achieved this feat by hammering away at the issue of illegal immigration, and deploying a communications strategy that, according to Domenico Ferrara, one of his biographers, Mr Salvini sums up in an acronym: TRT.
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First, she gives you the legend—the call, the first churches, the followers, the sermon to the birds, the stigmata—in St Francis's own words and in those of his early biographers, di Celano and Saint Bonaventure.
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Margaret is said by some biographers to have married Armstrong-Jones as an immediate reaction to the heartbreak of her split from Townsend — something her biographer Christopher Warwick, who wrote Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts, disputes.
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The Friday article quotes longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone and Sam Nunberg, a former Trump aide who has worked with Cohen and Stone, along with Trump biographers Tim O'Brien and Michael D'Antonio, and Ohio pastor Darrell Scott.
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In his life of literary and political activism, Douglass was many things, and it is this set of apparent complexities and paradoxes that makes his story so attractive to biographers, as well as to so many constituencies.
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"I know that a lot of biographers in the introduction to their books write about what they do on Washington's birthday or how they grew up with him or have a personal relationship with him," Coe noted.
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One of his biographers claims that, from 1925 until his death, in 1973, "nothing really happened," so it makes sense that "Tolkien"—a new film, directed by Dome Karukoski—should draw us back to his earlier years.
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Ms. Klain, who works for the Paley Center for Media, formerly the Museum of Broadcasting and the Museum of Television and Radio, is always on the lookout for lost programs that are sought by scholars and biographers.
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For biographers, this created a cottage industry, now more than a century old, of stripping away Whitman's self-mythologizing, in order to better understand which parts of his persona were self-revelation and which were self-invention.
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It couldn't be otherwise, but it seems a pity that Anne Brontë's bicentenary comes last, as if she is plodding patiently behind her bolder, flashier sisters, the way she is so often portrayed by biographers and critics.
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As Lacey notes, Gyles Brandreth — one of the biographers of the now-happily married couple — stated in his book Charles and Camilla, "Sometimes the actions we do not take are indeed more significant than those we do."
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Harris is one of dozens of friends of the family, historians, insiders and biographers to appear on The Story of the Royals – a two-night TV event from PEOPLE that airs on ABC on August 22 and 23.
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And yet, because the triangle has been imbued with some mystical quality by Jackson and his biographers/thought chroniclers, it's all anyone can talk or think about in New York (along with the latest Melo-drama, of course).
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He never married, and while biographers speculate about his sexuality—"I was never one who in love or friendship / Preferred one sex over the other," he writes in one poem—it is possible that he died a virgin.
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To that end, the process of becoming, as Timothy Wilson describes it, "biographers of our lives" is a profoundly powerful but surprisingly underutilized approach to better understand who we are, who we are becoming, and who we could be.
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I talked to one of Trump's biographers recently, and he echoed something I've heard from a lot of people, which is that Trump only cares about his popularity and that he'll do whatever he thinks will boost his ratings.
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Like most biographers of Hitler, Ullrich passes quickly over his subject's early years, which are little documented, in part because one of his last orders before his suicide in 1945 was for all his private papers to be burned.
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As previous biographers have, she sees Mary's turbulent life in the context of the Romantic Movement, and as part of an early wave of feminism that ended in the conservative Victorian era and its careful presentation of domestic contentment.
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Even if Trump once had some negotiating aptitude — his biographers say it was rare — we have seen his art-of-the-deal aspirations evaporate in a cloud of self-absorption, as one tableau of legislative chaos after another unfolds.
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The film, directed by Bernard Rose, frames its plot around attempts by one of Beethoven's early biographers, Anton Schindler (played by Jeroen Krabbé), to determine the identity of the "immortal beloved" that Beethoven once addressed a love letter to.
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Bacon's origins seem unlikely for a prophet of doom — born in Dublin in 1909, he was raised in patrician homes in Ireland and England — but biographers report that his father tried to beat his son's homosexuality out of him.
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It would be relevant, for example, if a politician frequently cited faith as informing his or her public views, or if an individual told biographers that religion had been a formative influence, as recounted in a specific episode, say.
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In a study of the 42 American presidents up to and including George W. Bush, we asked biographers and other experts to complete a detailed set of personality items - including items assessing boldness - about the president of their expertise.
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Hillary biographers such as Carl Bernstein report that after Bill Clinton's failure to be re-elected governor in 1980 and the GOP takeover of the House in the 1994 midterms, she was a major advocate of politics of retreat and triangulation.
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For one thing, even Wilson's own biographers differ on the degree to which his bigotry, reprehensible as it was, was typical of the Virginia native's times and locale—a common defense of slaveholders like Washington, Jefferson, and others, especially Southerners.
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It's an article of faith among Conrad's biographers that the stiff-backed, sure-footed Galsworthy, the socially conscious author of " The Forsyte Saga "—and the recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature—could not possibly have understood his friend's writing.
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These handwritten burial records, dating to 1849, when the still-active graveyard was founded, hold the answers to unsolved mysteries and various queries, including research requests from genealogists, biographers, historians and descendants of the more than half-million buried there.
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This is why the greatest divide among historians is between the academics who tend to see people as points of compressed social forces and those popular historians, chiefly biographers, who see the actors as nearly the whole of the story.
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As historians and biographers have noted, a major factor in the turn of opinion against Casement was the exposure of the so-called Black Diaries, notebooks in which he recorded, in often explicit language, his sexual experiences with other men.
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LONDON — One of President Trump's earliest memories, one he routinely recounts to journalists and biographers, is of watching his mother watch television, so enthralled that she barely moved for hours, on the day in 1953 that Queen Elizabeth was crowned.
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The courtyard was filled with friends of the Kennedy family, alumni of Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 campaign for president and of Edward M. Kennedy's Senate staff, Kennedy biographers and, not least, some actual Kennedys — including Caroline Kennedy, the president's daughter.
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Perhaps foremost, the documentary (really about 4 ½ hours sans commercials) features a wide array of Trump's friends, critics and biographers, while drawing upon not only the rich video evidence that's available but rare material like audiotaped interviews conducted with him.
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When her lovers left her for younger women, she designed their wedding dresses; when her 4,000 female factory employees went on strike in 20103, demanding better hours and wages, one of her biographers maintains that the 1939 closure of her shops was retaliation.
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Since his life was almost a Romantic work of art in itself, he has had no shortage of biographers, starting immediately after his death with his fellow composer and friend of sorts, Franz Liszt, and continuing in a steady trickle ever since.
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The law was "already friendly" to celebrity biographers, Kabat says, because celebrities are public figures, and to be sued for defaming a public figure, you can't just be wrong about the facts — you have to be willfully lying or recklessly disregarding obvious information.
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Biographers of the monarch's last years, beginning with William Shawcross's unsurpassable The Shah's Last Ride (1988), have always understood that he was as much an opportunist as he was a visionary—how else could he have survived 37 years on the Peacock Throne?
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Surprisingly, the most admirable of Leonardo's modern biographers—Serge Bramly, writing in 1988, and the richly nuanced Charles Nicholl, writing in 2004—while hardly uncritical of Freud's analysis, consider his thoughts about the artist's relationship with his mother to be of enduring value.
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Millay finishes the poem fairly quickly — she's briefly stuck on line 107, but hey, it rains, and she's off again — so she spends the rest of the first act engaged in what one of her biographers called an "epistolary striptease" with its editor.
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Of course, there is always more to the story than just the work itself for those whose work resonates throughout decades, but often these details are locked away by more traditional biographers who have little time for details of the character's personal lives.
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Former Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his brother, former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, often spoke of their father's role in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against Nazi rule, which biographers tend to describe — always in positive terms — as formative for how they led Poland.
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"The people programmed in the golden days of movies believe no truth is as interesting, or safe, as a half-truth," writes one of the more spirited of Gable's biographers, Lyn Tornabene in Long Live the King: a Biography of Clark Gable.
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In a new book titled Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend, out October 1003, National Book Award Winner Deirdre Bair takes a different approach than most Capone biographers, forgoing analysis of the gangster's well-covered "professional" life to instead examine his private and personal.
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"The conclusions of many Hitler biographers about the mental development of Adolf Hitler, who allegedly received special attention from his mother Klara as the only surviving child after the deaths of three siblings, are no longer tenable," Kotanko was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
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" According to one of Wood's biographers, "a circus-like crowd estimated at 35,000 packed every crevice of Fenway Park—filling the stands, outfield and even foul territory along the right- and left-field foul lines—and cheered wildly with every strike Joe burned across.
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Camus's biographers have identified it as a spot where an altercation took place, between two Arabs and three of Camus's friends, that very well may have been the real-life inspiration for the climactic scene between the Arabs and pieds noirs in The Stranger.
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In recent years, she has tied herself to Lister's life with the kind of zeal normally reserved for biographers tucked into the dusty corner of a library, except in Wainwright's case, she had a splashier plan for getting Lister's life in front of the public.
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In the words of his biographers Stephen Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, in the first version he "memorialized the limitless possibilities of his dreams in the Midi," using measured brushstrokes and areas of flat, bright color that create a feeling of order and calm.
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" Early writings on faith Ginsburg's biographers reveal that while her immediate family was not "devoutly religious," Jewish traditions were very much a part of her childhood even though at times she resented an adherence to "seemingly hypocritical rules and the inferior role assigned to women.
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Ginsburg's biographers, whom she worked with for "My Own Words," say that the quality of her reasoning, her mental acuity, her stamina and her public engagement mean that "there is no question that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg continues to 'do the job full steam.'"
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There are other mitigating factors here, too: Classified information is mishandled all the time by federal employees, high-ranking officials have long kept journals of National Security Council meetings for their memoirs or biographers, and the federal government has a long history of overclassifying information.
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A nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, refers to it simply as "the last Work," in "A Memoir of Jane Austen" (1871)—still the first port of call for biographers, despite its erasure of anything that might evoke the impious, the unsavory, or the quarrelsome.
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His sudden insight that God wanted men to take multiple wives coincided with rumors about his own extramarital affairs, but Ulrich sidesteps the question of whether Smith encouraged the practice "in order to justify illicit relations with vulnerable young women" (as other biographers have suggested).
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Any information that challenges his worldview does not lead him to reconsider his beliefs; it "gets flushed down the sort of emotional and intellectual dispose-all that I think he carries around with him," Timothy O'Brien, one of Mr. Trump's biographers, told Politico recently.
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Chris Kraus, one of our most innovative art critics, who is also one of our best fiction writers, now becomes one of our more adventurous biographers in this book on the perversely inventive and invented life of the punk fiction writer Kathy Acker (1947-19733).
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In many instances, the Germans have been content for the lives of their great literary figures to be written by Anglo-American biographers; there is a narrative flair, a curiosity, an animation, a love of character and anecdote, a juice, that it seems only the English provide.
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"The intimacy of their relationship over the next years, a consuming subject for later biographers and historians, coincided with the production by the two of them of some of the most groundbreaking works of postwar art," reads the New York Times obituary on Rauschenberg, after his death in 2008.
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In past accounts (by biographers, but also in the kinds of folktales that usually pass for American history) Grant's funeral symbolized a nation finally coming together after the Civil War: Grant's coffin was carried by three Southern generals and three Northern generals, all of them united in grief.
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And of course, what the letters and journals show is that most of our lives are mostly a jumble while we're living them, because we're caught up in the day-to-day for the most part; it's for the biographers to perceive the contours, once it's all over.
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He also makes it clear, in a way other biographers do not, that almost from the moment he entered office, Roosevelt set out to educate the nation to the fact that the United States was threatened not only by economic depression at home, but also by fascist aggressions abroad.
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"One of our most talented biographers and historians, Maraniss has used his prodigious research skills to produce a story that leaves one aching with its poignancy, its finely wrought sense of what was lost, both in his home and in our nation," Kevin Baker writes in his review.
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A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and one of our most talented biographers and historians, Maraniss has used his prodigious research skills to produce a story that leaves one aching with its poignancy, its finely wrought sense of what was lost, both in his home and in our nation.
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The way his biographers tell it, you'd think that George Washington, who held hundreds of people enslaved at the time of his death, had a change of heart during the Revolution, which led him to free his slaves in his will — a generous read that allows for a redemptive conclusion.
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John Loughery and Blythe Randolph, who are seasoned biographers, claim that they will never again have such a "challenging and complex" subject as Day, implying that this in part justifies their biography, "Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century" — the first full-length portrait, according to the book jacket, to appear in 40 years.
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Such is the conundrum that greets her biographers, and Lubow begins his book with a dramatic solution: an occasion, in the middle of the nineteen-fifties, when Diane announced, at the butt end of a day in which she and Allan had toiled on a shoot for Vogue , that she was done with fashion photography.
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In the words of biographers Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan in the excellent De Kooning: An American Master: The abstract expressionist movement, which attempted to free itself from figurative language, was largely dismissive of the work of these women, many of whom were accused of being too much in the shadow of more representational European traditions.
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President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE ran into one of his most critical biographers while golfing Friday on his course in Florida, Politico reported.
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Moser, like earlier Sontag biographers — including Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock, who wrote the sensationalist The Making of an Icon, and German critic Daniel Schreiber — ultimately tends to limit his exploration of Sontag's queer identity to her personal life and her private writing, rather than imagining how it might have defined the entirety of her work.
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Hemingway's first trip to Cuba took place in 1928; he stayed for a couple of days during a layover on his way back to the US. His biographers claim that the images of a lavish and magic Havana were instantly burned into his retinas, which would become the beginning of a historic future for both Cuba and the nobel laureate.
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Born in 2850 (some biographers say she was born into slavery on a Georgia plantation, though she claimed to have been born free in Philadelphia), Pleasant was separated from her parents at a young age and sent to work as a domestic servant for a white family in Massachusetts, where slavery had essentially been illegal since the end of the 2000th Century.
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While there is not currently any comprehensive display of af Klint's abstract works in Sweden or anywhere else, I discovered over three days in late May with the help of museum curators, biographers and af Klint family descendants, that it is possible to move around Stockholm, one of Europe's most evocative cities, and connect with her life — almost from cradle to grave — and its artistic context.
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