"The biographer who writes the life of his……" — Leon Edel

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• On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily… — Unknown Author
• Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. — Mary Schmich
• In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do… — Unknown Author
• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy… — Unknown Author
• No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I… — Stacy Schiff
• Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body,… — Unknown Author
• My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in. — Cynthia Payne
• To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. — Katharine Anthony
• Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. — Leon Edel
• I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole. — Ron Chernow
• His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush. — Emily Dickinson
• The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read… — John Dos Passos

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