biography
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“The fashion world was hesitant to embrace the first movie, because everyone thought that Anna hated it,” says Amy Odell, the author of Anna: The Biography.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
"If it was edgy to do jeans for November 1988, I think it was even edgier for her to do Madonna," says Amy Odell, author of Anna: The Biography.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025
Biography, framed by dramatic events, often overwhelms the paintings and sculptures, which are admired for the reductive ways in which they illuminate the artist’s tumultuous life.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2024
“Hanoi: Biography of a City,” by William Stewart Logan, and “Hanoi of a Thousand Years,” by Carol Howland, both explore the life and history of this ancient city.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2023
He claimed to be writing a Family Biography that the Family would have to pay him not to publish.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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