biography
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He renounced the prosperity gospel he once had preached, wrote a raw and wrenching biography about his missteps and vowed to work with the needy and most vulnerable when he was released.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
According to a biography on his official website, his father was a mechanical engineer, and his mother had been a dancer before becoming a nurse during the war.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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” is out now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
His students don’t know this—they know precious little of Volpe’s biography or his life outside the school.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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
His daughter, Katie Niederhoffer, said that until the last days of his life, she kept him stocked with books, everything from textbooks and biographies to books on trees and resilience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In between the book’s linked stories, Ms. Daanje inserts excerpts from those scant archives—Millicent’s letters, the poems and cryptic jottings from Eliza May’s notebooks—as well as passages from various later biographies of the Draydens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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
Poetry, fiction, history, biographies, the library had them all.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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Words to Live By: Bio
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