biographer

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“His forte is listening,” Cooke, the biographer, said of Lesch, whose polite, unassuming manner reflects an adult life spent mostly in San Antonio.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

According to biographer William J. Simmons, Woods was uninterested in saloons, instead devoting himself to studying an emerging technology—electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

"Any meeting with Asha has to be a talk show. She will do all the talking, of course, interrupting the flow of words only to sing," Bharatan, her biographer, wrote.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Paul was “one of the most gregarious playboys in New York City,” according to biographer Frank Brady, author of “The Publisher,” and Paul and William Randolph Hearst were regulars at New York nightclubs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

It is presumably for this reason that Pacioli’s first biographer, Bernardino Baldi, writing in the late sixteenth century, attributed the painting to Piero della Francesca, whose expert knowledge of the regular solids was well known.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton