biographer

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In the words of biographer David Reynolds, Brown’s execution helped “spark” the Civil War.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

But Hanson's biographer and filmmaker Dr Anna Broinowski says the One Nation leader has endured as a figurehead of right-wing politics because she paints herself as a "person of the people".

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Leo didn’t want to get involved in politics, he told his biographer Allen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

The Beethoven biographer Jan Swafford put it this way: “ ‘Missa Solemnis’ is Beethoven talking to God, man to man.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

Newton’s modern biographer, Richard Westfall, concludes that we should regard Newton’s claim to have been surprised by the oblong image cast by the prism ‘as a rhetorical device which is not to be understood literally’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton