biography
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Generally, knowing an artist’s biography isn’t essential to the experience of the work, which must live on its own merits.
Since the late 1970s, a number of biographies of Mansfield have sought to dismantle the sanitized version of her life promoted by Murry, and a scholarly industry devoted to restoring her unadulterated voice has flourished.
Her forthcoming biography of Stevie Nicks, “Lessons & Lace,” published by Penguin Random House, debuts in September.
From Los Angeles Times
George Simon, in his biography of the bandleader, reports that Miller ran afoul of a highly conservative senior officer who railed against the “newfangled sounds” that Miller’s men were producing.
“It was extraordinary to watch his inner strength,” Sokol said of his son in the Horatio Alger biography.
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