biography
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“The fashion world was hesitant to embrace the first movie, because everyone thought that Anna hated it,” says Amy Odell, the author of Anna: The Biography.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
"If it was edgy to do jeans for November 1988, I think it was even edgier for her to do Madonna," says Amy Odell, author of Anna: The Biography.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025
Hilburn, The Times’ pop music critic from 1970 to 2005, takes up Newman’s life and work in a new book, “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024
That was certainly the case in author Jerry Oppenheimer's "Just Desserts: The Unauthorized Biography of Martha Stewart," which promised to shatter Stewart's perfect image.
From Salon • May 16, 2023
His entry in the Dictionary of National Biography is one of the longest, rivaled in length only by those of Darwin and Lyell among nineteenth-century men of science.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Words to Live By: Bio
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