11) 40887. Mumford, Lewis. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...it that have been preserved in memory, in documents, in memorials, or in living testimony. The biographer must compose his life of what he has, just as the archeologist...
12) 65379. Woolf, Virginia. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:65379 QUOTATION:Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative...
13) 6921. Paul Murray Kendall. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 6921 AUTHOR: Paul Murray Kendall QUOTATION: [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent...
14) 6836. Leon Edel. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 6836 AUTHOR: Leon Edel QUOTATION: Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. ATTRIBUTION:...
15) §59. Sir Theodore Martin. II. Historians, Biographers and Political
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...A biographer of royalty, also, was Sir Theodore Martin, whose Life of the Prince Consort (1875–80), undertaken by queen Victoria s desire, is founded largely on original...
16) Plutarch. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Greek biographer and Neo-Platonist philosopher. He wrote Parallel Lives, a collection of paired biographies of famous Greek and Roman figures that Shakespeare used...
17) Lowell, Amy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925, American poet, biographer, and critic, b. Brookline, Mass., privately educated; sister of Percival Lowell and Abbott Lawrence Lowell. In 1912...
18) North, Roger. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...North, Roger, 1653-1734, English biographer. A lawyer, he wrote excellent biographies of his brothers: Francis North, Lord Guilford, Keeper of the Great Seal (1742);...
19) Mitford, Nancy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Mitford, Nancy, 1904-73, English novelist and biographer, b. London. She managed a London bookshop during World War II and moved to Paris in 1945. Mitford was born...
20) Sandburg, Carl. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, American poet and biographer, b. Galesburg, Ill. The son of poor Swedish immigrants, he left school at the age of 13 and became a day laborer....
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