Sentences with phrase «excellent biography»

I have mentioned Glenn Lovell's excellent biography of director John Sturges, Escape Artist, before.

This considerable achievement was made possible by Fior's conversations with many people who knew Weil, as well as extensive reading, and reliance on the earlier, excellent biography by Simone Pétrement.

This year served up a bumper crop of excellent biographies for youth, and these 10 titles, reviewed in Booklist from June 2015 to May 15, 2016, are the best of the best.

We already had excellent biographies including the seminal works of Ben Pimlott and Philip Ziegler.

Giblin's excellent biography examines not only what Hitler did and his twisted, contradictory personality but also his legacy — contemporary neo-Nazi movements.

One of the saddest chapters of Bill Kaplan's excellent biography Canadian Maverick — the Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand, is his account of Justice Rand's post SCC appointment as the founding Dean of the University of Western Ontario's Law School.

One imagines the justices sitting around a table, one of them suggesting this novel practice and others responding with either enthusiasm or reluctance — but if any such meeting ever took place, the otherwise excellent biography has nothing to say about it.

This came from Alister McGrath's excellent biography of C.S. Lewis (p. 365).

There is an excellent biography of Bob by Mark Frost called «The Grand Slam» that I recommend to one and all golfer and non golfer alike.

This quote came from Alister McGrath's excellent biography of C.S. Lewis.

Both Bethge's work, and the excellent biography by Mary Bosanquet, The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, give a clear vision of the man, his style of life, his activity, his hopes, fears, aspirations, faith, and loyalty to Jesus Christ.

Likewise three excellent biographies of Auden have recently been published, each capturing his warmth: Charles Osborne's W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poet (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979); Edward Mendelson's fine Early Auden (Viking, 1981); and Humphrey Carpenter's acclaimed W. H. Auden: A Biography (Houghton Muffin, 1981).

Which means that there is happily still room for another work on O'Connor to accompany this excellent biography.

I'm sure I'm not the only MP to have been influenced by the life of John F Kennedy and Robert Dallek's excellent biography of one of the most iconic figures in American politics, if not of the 20th century.

Many of the figures I find most interesting have been the subject of excellent biographies and I'd rather pick something to write about where I felt I could add something new and with a slightly broader focus.

This article will give some basic concepts of what needs to be used or left while writing an excellent biography.

For a person to write an excellent biography, one must have a good subject.

YA / General Interest: An excellent biography for teens interested in world history, nonviolent protest, and Mahatma Gandhi.

It is very well researched by Scott Eyman who also wrote an excellent biography of director Ernst Lubitsch, «Laughter in Paradise».

Wangari Maathai is very much alive in Prévot's excellent biography, which highlights what led Maathai to form the Green Belt Movement.

Since I had no idea who he was, I looked him up and found this excellent biography.

In Phoebe Hoban's excellent biography, Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty, she details how, as early as art school, Neel declared herself to be the «anti-Mary Cassatt,» meaning she was not interesting in producing the fawning, fuzzy odes to domestic life that were expected of women painters of the era.

The curators have chosen not to focus on the somewhat troubling details of the artist's personal life — she spent much of the 1960s hospitalized because of paranoid schizophrenia — but fortunately there is also an excellent biography, Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal, available for those interested in Martin's fascinating life.

There are three excellent biographies that should be of real assistance — those of Laskin, Dickson, and Wilson — but they are not.

I was able to combine public law with literature by reading John Buchan's The 39 Steps and then William J. Galbraith's excellent biography of our literary GG, John Buchan: Model Governor General.