biography

She added that the Russians provided her with biographies and photographs of the children, along with an overview of services given to the children, in a detailed report that was confirmed by U.S. government officials.

In their deeply researched biography, “Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso,” Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi do not dispute what they call the “terrible baseline” of Cooper’s personality.

In short, he is an alluring subject for a biography.

“His own biography — born in India, sent to Burma as a young soldier, doing what he did there and being ashamed of it — drew him closer to my own experience,” Peck says.

A biography on the school district's website says that "he was born to immigrant parents from Guyana, and spent most of his formative years in Brooklyn, NY".