'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a…

Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have been for its author, who concludes his three-volume saga begun…

— Fred Kaplan

Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument--that…

— Michael Ignatieff

“[Theodore] Roosevelt had long ago discovered that the more provincial the supplicants, the less able were they to understand that their need was not…

— Edmund Morris

I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from…

— Fred Kaplan

Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel…

— Edwin Morris

“Margaret Lea.” “The biographer.”

— Diane Setterfield

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I do, of…

— Stacy Schiff

“Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!”

— Virginia Woolf

His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.

— Emily Dickinson

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

— Ron Chernow

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

— Linda Simon

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

— Katharine Anthony

“For the biographer, the final clue to character lies in the yet unread - the scribbled note, the diary page, a notation in the…

— Laura Furman

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

— Mary Schmich