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The book explores the relationship between an impossibly eccentric contemporary composer and his grudging biographer.
Interestingly, Larkin's friend and biographer Andrew Motion went on to become the first academic holder of the poet laureateship.
Except for writers of obituaries and elegies, no serious biographer judges his subject under the aspect of eternity.
He may have painted Madonnas beautifully but his first biographer Vasari suggested his death was not due to fever but to amatory excess.
Pedants pounce on such tell-tale signs that what purports to be an image of Shakespeare is really an idealised image of the biographer himself.
The film critic and biographer has been commissioned to tidy up the novel and write an afterword to set the book in context.
The biographer must always be doubted, cross-questioned, read between the lines.
But there was another side to this English poet, novelist, journalist, biographer and controversialist.
The biographer of one of our biggest stars fills us in on a big star who lived large and died broke.
In practice, the biographer has to choose not between lively and dull, but more subtly and perplexingly, between candid and glib.
The biographer delicately demonstrates the impact of this tumultuous childhood on the poet's work, without resorting to cod psychology.
He was a good parson, and I am happy to have been introduced to his life by such a reliable biographer.
It was Hodgkin, famously, who outed Bruce Chatwin in an interview with biographer Nicholas Shakespeare.
We cannot control what other's write about us, and today's critic may be tomorrow's biographer and obituarist.
Experiencing a mild hallucination of this sort is a good sign for the biographer, Geoff insists.
But it's also extraordinary that they can be faithfully reported by a biographer who seems committed to hagiography.
While it is almost inevitable that a biographer will either be a hagiographer or a betrayer, his betrayals are, actually, of a special order.
Alexandra Lapierre, award-winning French novelist and biographer, has produced a book that combines biography, fiction and scholarship.
The biographer resolved to ascertain whether George really did wear boots and spurs, and smoke Virginian in a short pipe.
One biographer assumes that he was a boy of somewhat ordinary talents that would fit him only for the mercantile trade.
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Dignity and respectability have ruined alike the historian and the biographer.
But here again my aim is neither that of the commentator nor that of the biographer.
Of the two, M. Magne is the more vivacious, as befits the biographer of voiture.
The point lends itself to straining by its nature, though it is staidly mentioned by the staid biographer who has been quoted.
It is not the function of the biographer any more than it is that of a dentist to prettify his subject.
Why should the biographer thus indicate that the Pelagian heresy was specially rife among great and wealthy and popular people?
The date of his reconversion, as far as we know, has never been mentioned by any biographer.
They are worthy of the biographer who has now well grouped and described these creatures.
Horace Traubel will be remembered, as he wished to be remembered, as the biographer of Whitman.
Fortunate, indeed, is the famous man who escapes the catchpenny biographer.
He wrote for humanity, as his biographer justly says, not for fame.
So early had Boswell made his resolve to be the biographer of Johnson.
Yet no writer can be more secure of a permanent place in our literature than the biographer of the Indian chiefs.
He flattered himself that he was not in love, but his biographer may be supposed to know better.
Yes, my boy, these were all done prematurely before my biographer had come to glorify me.
Anthony Burgess is a writer who presents a particularly difficult conundrum to the literary biographer.
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