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Biographies of the chef include tales of Child sleeping outdoors on the second-floor porch and romping through the lawn with her younger siblings and their Airedale dog named Eric the Red.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024

Biographies generally agree that he was born in 1967 in Dushanbe, then the capital of Soviet Tajikistan, close to the border with Afghanistan.

From Reuters • Aug. 1, 2022

Biographies and Wikipedia entries should be factually correct.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2022

This poem was included in one of the first known books of essays published by an African American woman, Plato’s “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry.”

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2022

See Biographies by Napier, 1856, and Grant, 1858.

From A Brief Handbook of English Authors by Adams, Oscar Fay