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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 of the famous jostled with those of the forgotten.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2023

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 are now cheek-to-jowl with memoirs and short-story collections.

From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2021

Biographies of great, but especially of good men, are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others.

From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray