biography
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Sir Alex Ferguson is mentioned 28 times, more than any other name in the biography.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
"I don't look like the typical gringo. I'm a little bit darker" in complexion, he is quoted as saying in Allen's biography.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
Dressed in a white blazer and red skirt, she recites De La Cruz’s biography as the real congressman looks on with a glowing smile.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
The idea of writing a biography of an imaginary character, Ms. Hall concedes, “may seem eccentric.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Then I remembered a line from Ogden Morrow’s biography: The opposite sex made Jim extremely nervous, and Kira was the only girl that I ever saw him speak to in a relaxed manner.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Ford, who’s bidding to become Nevada’s first Black governor, has one of those up-by-the-bootstraps biographies that campaign consultants see as spun gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
As well as "Succession", the five-times married tycoon has been the subject of a spate of biographies, as well as a new Netflix documentary, "Dynasty: The Murdochs" which was released in March this year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
His daughter, Katie Niederhoffer, said that until the last days of his life, she kept him stocked with books, everything from textbooks and biographies to books on trees and resilience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In between the book’s linked stories, Ms. Daanje inserts excerpts from those scant archives—Millicent’s letters, the poems and cryptic jottings from Eliza May’s notebooks—as well as passages from various later biographies of the Draydens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
So the woman has not read any of the articles or biographies around.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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