In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fiction parts should be printed in red ink, the fact parts in black ink.
Catherine Drinker bowenLockhart's Life of Walter Scott may be said to be the most admirable biography in the English language, after Boswell's Samuel Johnson.
john gibson lockhartBut for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
john updikeThere is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
thomas carlyleThere is properly no history, only biography.
ralph waldo emersonThe art of biography Is different from Geography. Geography is about Maps, But biography is about Chaps.
Edmund Clerihew BentleyScientologists are at war with a member of their own family - the outspoken niece of the church's powerful leader, David Miscavige. Jenna Hill Miscavige, 24, the daughter of David's older brother Ron, recently came out in support of Andrew Morton's "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized biography," and slammed the star for "supporting a religion that tears apart families, both in the media and monetarily." Since then, Jenna claims she's been subjected to harassment.
david miscavigeHow gently, wisely, and justly G MYoung deals with him. That is not the way to write biography.
Dean Gooderham AchesonIt is unlikely that anyone will write his biography, but he will be enshrined in10,000 indexes.
Henry Southworth AllenRead no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
There is properly no history; only biography.
No social study that does not come back to the problems of biography, of history and of their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey.
What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.
hovhannes bagramyanShe doesn't get to say much in the official biography —I believe they are out of wine, etc.,practical things —watching with one eye as he goes about the worldcalling himself The Son Of Man.
anne carsonThe biography of a minister is bound to be a work of moral and political importance.
francisco luís gomesBrief biography at The Center for International Education
Eugene McCarthyBrief biography at the Guelph Civic Museum biography at the Dictionary of Canadian biography Online Works by John McCrae at Project Gutenberg
john mccraeUnselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the biography of souls.
thomas davidD.M. Turner: 1962-1997 Brief biography at Erowid.org
d.m. turnerJonathan Wells biography from the Discovery Institute
jonathan wellsObituary at The National Academies Press Nobelprize.org biography Roger W. Sperry - Autobiography The Roger W. Sperry Site
roger wolcott sperryMay I therefore acknowledge the tender glow of health induced by reading, as I sat here in the morning sun, the flattering attention paid me by your gentleman of ready wreath and quick biography!
WhistlerUnselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the biography of souls.
For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
thomas carlyleWales was criticized in 2005 for editing his own biography in Wikipedia, downplaying the pornographic nature of Bomis and minimizing Sanger's role as cofounder of Wikipedia.
MacTutor Profile at University of St. Andrews William Thomson's biography Lord Kelvin online
william thomsonAnthony Lewis's Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A biography of the First Amendment offers a lucid and engaging overview of American free-speech law. The former Nieman Fellow has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, and this volume puts the skills that earned him those accolades much on display. Again and again, he brings to life the dramatis personae in leading cases, plucks out moving or telling quotations, and explains who won and who lost in order to provide a clear introduction to First Amendment doctrine.
Anthony Lewis' Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A biography of the First Amendment is a succinct and eloquent account of our nation's history of struggle with this seemingly simple concept of freedom of expression. As we know, it is not simple, and the struggle continues. Lewis presents the conflicts inherent in this guarantee of free speech and a free press and makes clear the complexities and implications of our evolving interpretation.