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biography

[bahy-og-ruh-fee, bee-] / baɪˈɒg rə fi, bi- /


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Edgeworth’s intellectual honesty is one of many reasons to welcome Ms. Smialek’s biography, “The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth: How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Backpack's biography says his "quiet toughness has allowed him to find his niche alongside the biggest bears at Brooks River".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

And I know there’s no James Boswell coming to write my biography.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Her biography of Stevie Nicks, “Lessons & Lace,” published by Penguin Random House, is out now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

I write a short biography of Sarah Ross, the name Aibileen chose, after her sixth-grade teacher who died years ago.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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

There is also a focus on the lives of the slaves who lived and worked at Mount Vernon, with artifacts such as farm tools and cookware as well as biographies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

He published a number of autobiographical books, as well as biographies of John Wesley and William and Catherine Booth, the founders of the Salvation Army.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Anna Arno, who has written biographies of the German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker and the Polish activist Konstanty Jeleński, meets that challenge in “Paul Celan: A Life.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Then we wrote the tract of their lives, remote, unauthorized biographies.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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