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	in a sentence ? Here are some examples. which breaks no new ground but is a good summary of current knowledge.
But the picture drawn by Volkmar Braunbehrens's 1989 is of a serious, steady, occasionally irascible man.
The library also has a wide range of titles on gardening, cookery, history, computers, and travel.
It exposes the paradox that Plath's texts cannot be read through and cannot be read apart from it.
Over the centuries, Laozi's life took on elements of the mythological hero's .
Goodrich limned some of her into her last known self-portrait, where she fashioned herself as an artist at work at her easel.
His , written by St Gregory of Nyssa, describes the crowning moment of divine theophany.
The political is preceded by a fine chapter on his cricketing career.
Although soberly written, this of the dictator bristles with moral indignation.
As in his of Macarthur, the Aborigines are incidental, minor problems for his hero to overcome.
The next chapter in Zorn's musical is also one of the most surprising.
It combines numerous illustrations with a , an artistic appreciation and a complete catalogue of his works.
The author, like so many writers of popular , is guilty of being fashionably irreverent toward her subject.
A booklet containing the of Mr. Nayanar, poems on Nayanar and photographic vignettes from his life, is also supplied along with it.
But as is revealed in a startling new , he fathered illegitimate children and had numerous affairs.
Tolstoy set out to write a personal memoir of O'Brian, but it turned into a full .
Yet we are still waiting for a compact, scholarly of his entire life in a single volume.
His is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.
In the postbag was also a handwritten note and a few words of on Peter Seward.
A typical note card would provide a of an author or a review of a book.

What political written last or this century has included every last detail.
Alexandra Lapierre, award-winning French novelist and biographer, has produced a book that combines , fiction and scholarship.
Her written requirements were pared down to writing half an essay, half a , and half of everything they initially required.
For example, Hawass said, on show along with the mummy of Ramses II would be models of his Nubian temples, statues, reliefs and a .
Even European history of the period was an official or semi-official of the state.
It has been suggested that his Pitt is part of a grand publicity plan to jockey back into position as a future leader.
It's a good starter for younger viewers who might go on to familiarize themselves with the writings of this great author.
According to a new , he narrowly escaped being expelled and, at 17, was beaten by his housemaster for flouting the rules.
However hard we try to concentrate on the paintings, the sad facts of Solomon's insist on obtruding themselves.
Miss Eisner's book, while not replacing Zamoyski's , does not seek to do so, and provides a lively and readable supplement.
So, does the beautiful title of the evoke the man, his work or the Aranda culture that was his subject?
This is of general importance chiefly because it is, surprisingly, the first comprehensive of the artist.
In a , one expects to be told that so-and-so first met his best friend at such-and-such a place.
Because some people have come forward with an interest in writing my , I thought it might be no harm to have a crack at it myself.
There was the case of Dr James Mackay, widely touted in the early 1990s as the leading authority on Burns and author of a capacious .
Johnson's is an engrossing portrait of a brilliant physicist who happens to be a complex and, at times, troubled character.
In the New York Times I read religiously each capsule of a World Trade Center victim.
You can almost feel the bitter cold and biting Antarctic wind in this excellent of a polar hero.
Thus this will be of interest to any student of the mid-twentieth century South.
The tone of Nicholls' is dispassionately respectful, admiring even.

A of Elvire O'Connor, the ostensible writer of this piece, is included in the program and is a tiny work of art in its own right.
The volume begins with the editors' contributions, a short of Gegenbaur and a history of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena.
He presents a celebratory of an African-American woman removed from her culture and family.
As one would expect from his highly efficient of Ted Heath, he shows a masterly command of the politics of the period.
The of William Blake warmly portrays the visionary poet's wife Katherine as the helpmate who made Blake's work possible.
An award-winning writer of 11 previous books of history, travel and , Nicholl retranslates many of da Vinci's mirrorscript writings.
To see how this description of the series fits with Gregory's series for arctan see the of Madhava.
One of last century's most potent literary and political figures is put under the microscope in this prize-winning .
Hill's is a thematic , moving emotionally as much as argumentatively.
It is a pity that there exists no serious of Archibald Wavell, an intriguing and arresting figure.
There is a very complete of Alec Guinness and the theatrical trailer for the film.
He wrote the bestselling of U2 in 1985, just before the band became rock superstars.
Was it possible to write the bestselling to match the box-office hit?
I'm leaning towards some kind of but I have no particular subject in mind.
But in light of his political there can be no doubt of his preparedness to assume a ministerial office in a Union-led government.
The Wonder edition includes an informative and a discography of his recordings.
At the end of this marvellously observed , it's the drunken rants, financial embarrassments and the sexual misadventures I remember.
Here, with a short artist's , is the concert programme listed in full.
It would have been easy for him to write a rousingly romantic which glossed over the enormous contradictions of Ryan's career.
For individual , the cataloger lists the name of the biographee as the first subject heading.

This rich, authoritative is written by an American Russophile who knew him personally.
A good is weakened by not giving the major biographical facts due prominence.
My brother Marvin and I once wrote a of the former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
He wrote a worthy of Red Smith and edited a book of columns by Smith.
I think I may write a non-linear starting from now and going in both directions at once.
This might suggest the difficulty of writing the of someone who spent so much of his life recreating his life in fiction.
I can't help but feel that if you could write a of Pepys with only side references to the diary it'd work a lot better.
When I went on to write the of Charles, true to his character, he gave me complete freedom of access to friends and documents.
She once toyed with writing a of Margaret Thatcher, the first time she's ever been interested in writing about a living person.
Responding to criticism that his attacks on Elton and Madonna in his new are unfair, he has decided to set the record straight.
Drummund, who was also a biographer for Billy Graham, wrote an excellent on Finney which deals with this.
He was also responsible for publishing Dorothy Wordsworth's diaries and wrote a ground-breaking of her.
Her of Nietzsche is a double hagiography, comic and almost sad in its reflection of her own will to power.
This is what is said to have prompted Asan to write a of Achutha Menon, drawing on his close relationship with him.
In The Name is not a Pilger but an account of Pilger's television work with which the journalist himself co-operated.
If there is a slippage between fiction and in this text then how does this apply to the image?
Volume 2 of Roy Foster's magisterial of W. B. Yeats opens in 1915, when Yeats was in his fiftieth year and at a crossroads in his life.
One of the essays deals with the interesting question why is a genre that has been rarely well practised even in modern India.
Over half a century she published more than 20 novels, alongside works of poetry, criticism and .
By taking on these sympathetic forms, literary can supply parallel narratives to those of novels.

Literary theory has recently held to be a literary construct, rather than a factual enterprise.
Ireland, in short, has no monopoly on the use of memoir, fiction, or autobiography as a political tool.
Yet men dominate in this field also, even in fiction, poetry, literary .
Who has ever said such connections are not the stuff of literary ?
Greenblatt instead wants to write, and most consumers of literary want to read, a story extraordinary and uplifting.
He is the sort of phenomenon literary in its present form can only flatten.
There is now a considerable body of theoretical and discursive work on as an artistic form.
It also has, for the first time, little essays on subjects such as , short stories, detective fiction and so on.
It is closer to literary Criticism, than but without ever being boring.
To that end, Harlan concludes that Up From Slavery was more a work of fiction than .
As a work of literary and analysis American Sympathy is compelling.
Some knowledge of Shapiro's is open to any reader in the dedication.
There is also a text and a complete discography included to complete the bonus features.
Less gripping are those swaths of the book that are essentially a of Salk, who simply wasn't a colorful character.
The comments I earlier made concerning the of the subject ladder are equally apposite to the present circumstances.
In his strange digressive and allusive of Christ he presents him as the incarnation of the overwhelming mystery of God.
First, Wood reviews the extant literature in order to present a short .
For each name, dates of birth and death are given, followed by a potted of 20-30 words.
It takes a bold writer to attempt a of one of the most recognized and cited of Restoration Englishmen.
His daughter Margaret is writing a book about her unusual childhood and a by Paul Alexander is seeping unannounced into bookstores.

A would bore her, she says, preferring to fill in the gaps left by earlier writers and to give them a fresh, contemporary perspective.
Her professional career spanned literary and theatrical criticism, broadcasting for the BBC, fiction, and an uncompleted memoir.
There is a complete for virtually every artist, and each section is preceded by an introductory essay.
Next to this , Phillips describes his own therapeutic dialogue with an anonymous patient.
The trailer actually undersells the film, while the storyboards and make for intriguing viewing.
The major events of Woodman's have clearly marked her artistic growth.
With an affectionate and admiring smile on his own face, he has written an unaffected of an unaffected great man.
Indeed, at times I wasn't sure if I was reading a or a hagiography.
Find out more about this multi-talented creationist by reading her on our site.
For all his undeniable artistic significance, the feels too close to the bone to be in good taste.
Despite the crises unfolding around him, he has continued a whirlwind tour to promote his , a 900-page doorstopper.
This might be recorded on their tombstone as an epitaph or in an obituary, commemoration portrait, or in some cases a .
I always thought that you had to finish your career and be in the happy twilight of retirement before releasing a compilation or .
To help him play Trevor with conviction, Ferns invented a fictional for the troubled man.
Ross McMullin's short works, like Watson himself, both unostentatiously and effectively to achieve results.
This is noted by the author's listed at the bottom of the article in small print.
He has become steadily more aware of the usefulness of that unprivileged .
While going through such varied sources, it is a great joy when one finds an autobiography or a or an unpublished piece of writing.
But one thing about now, as opposed to then, has been the rise of graphic novels, and comics and autobiography.
It makes one wonder how much of the speech is true and how much is false, based on Stalin's tendency toward revisionism of his revolutionary .

He produced the feature-length documentary, Bill Cunningham New York, and is at work on a of Sam Wagstaff.
He is producing a feature-length documentary on Bill Cunningham of the Times, and working on a of Sam Wagstaff.
Sandrart's story of Caravaggio's death is easily interpreted as an apologue rather than as because there is so little ground to confuse moral and factual truths.
Mr. Ziegler's is an elegant, sympathetic, and extremely readable , which really does breathe the breath of roistering life back into the vanished knight of letters.
Longtime press baron and Murdoch frenemy Conrad Black on what Michael Wolff got wrong in his new of the media titan.
Possibly only Professor Peter Groenewegen, the author of a magisterial of the English economist Alfred Marshall, could surpass him in this.
Larkin had his diaries destroyed, Hardy burnt all his personal papers, then got his second wife to put her name to the he had actually written himself.
A new of famed British author Somerset Maugham explores his complicated love life and defends his literary genius.
A double of Rommel and Montgomery, foes in North Africa in World War II, splendidly brings both military men to life.
Equal parts , sociology text, and mash note, it is the most complete account yet of his influence on pop music and a fervent memoir of fandom.
This is the of a great Canadian scientist, whose discoveries were all the more extraordinary because he was largely self-educated in science.
The also includes the memoirs of people she taught dance to in the 1960s, but does not mention anything about the circumstances of her death.
Her book is a mesh of and a wider history of the geisha.
Unfortunately, J. Michael Lennon tries something in the same vein in the last quarter of his sprawling .
At Slate, tanner Colby does the experiment with Woodward's of John Belushi.
Schmid first learned the art of mezzotinting in the Czech Republic, she notes in her , and developed this skill in Slovakia, where she was a Fulbright fellow.
The intellectual of the curator has to be on shaky ground.
After it was published in January, some said it read more like a love letter to the general than a .
There's already more than one shamelessly indiscreet .
Other special features include a brief of profiler Pat Brown, as well as cast bios that seem directly lifted from the Season One release.

If we want to read , however, we will decide which one to read on the basis of the specific biographee not on the basis of the genre itself.
It is not easy to write a about a person who is known to be reticent and the problem gets compounded when the attempt is not authorised.
Lee said it wasn't his decision to sack Bell and if anything is written otherwise in the , which is due out in the autumn, he will take legal action.
The result is a written wholly in the spirit of its subject.
Much of the debate swung around definitions of and memoir.
The contains several misspellings and occasional factual errors.
In moving towards you must have felt that journalism was insufficiently rewarded to provide a living and also that its bittiness was in itself too limiting?
A new captures the unflinching life of war photographer Tim Hetherington.
A new by A. Scott Berg makes the case for Woodrow Wilson as an unrecognized great American president.
Though he is often celebrated as the American father of Protestant liberalism, Horace Bushnell's and writing defy the categories of theological typology.
Ironically, it is only possible to write a cultural of this horse, insofar as it is possible, because of his multiply commodified status.
She's probably already boning up on the of Nelson Mandela.
A shocking new reveals a brutal truth behind the fiction of v.s. Naipaul.
The packaging features comprehensive sleeve notes and from US music writer Rich Kienzle and exclusive photographs from throughout Cash's career.
But none of this comes close to making up for what is a standard made-for-television eviscerated by massive, inexcusable bowdlerization.
Going even further, there are two 1930s movie newsreels that were filmed with the actual Grey Owl, a text , and a screen of web links to Grey Owl sites.
From a season spent embedded with the New York Jets to a of a self-mythologizing Pinkerton detective.
No of Jack Nicholson could long skirt the issue of his prodigious appetites.
Thompson's nearly 50 published pieces include essays, book and film reviews, short stories, a novelization, and a young-adult of the writer Charles Chesnutt.
But only a political could illuminate the personal, human dimension of Khrushchev's decision to follow the risky path of de-Stalinization.

A straight would have been a more obvious project to undertake.
The author of this new, third of the poet notes that Cummings signed his name in capitals in his personal correspondence, dealings with publishers and his diaries.
A jumbled curiosity of a film, Charlie isn't sure whether it wants to be a hard-boiled gangster thriller, a thoughtful , or a legal drama.
Vasari's confirms that Leonardo began to draw the cartoon in the Sala del Papa of the monumental Dominican building complex of Santa Maria Novella.
Composing a Borgesian alternative for those forfeited years would make for the perfect parlour game if parlours, like Scottish writers of genius, still survived.
And if you're a longtime fan, the helps explain the inner workings of the band and offers factoids you can use to, ahem, impress your friends.
Most of his cabinet colleagues spoke to him before he left to offer sympathy, including many whom he criticised in remarks made public in the ill-starred .
Well, even if you happen to be fixated on one life in particular, be it Einstein or Frank Sinatra, you can find a coffee-table book with a pictorial of your hero.
In fact, according to a recent of Jackson, Churchill actually fagged for two England captains, having earlier served Archie MacLaren as well.
This highly condensed allows little room for analysis.
Consociates are mutually involved in one another's .
There are and filmography profiles for Nicholas Lyndhurst and Clive Francis, and a short history of the MI5 counter-intelligence service.
Brenda Maddox, who had written a of Thatcher to accompany the programme, credits Dennis Thatcher with liberating his wife from her repressive background.
Regarding his and psychology, four years ago Kelly converted to the Baha'i religion, a pacifist faith that strongly condemns suicide.
It is a work of and criticism with the drama and sweep of a historical novel.
Adolf Eichmann is not an obvious candidate for a full-length , and before his capture in 1960 and trial the following year no one would have thought of writing one.
Turning in a 500 word , written painstakingly in the past tense, I sighed as my class was assigned another essay, this time in the future tense, due the next day.
Linda Lear is author of the definitive of Rachel Carson.
Lying somewhere between an academic treatise, a of an eco-activist, and a guidebook for Green campaigners, it is a truly remarkable book.
Such information is catalogued in his website's , a curious document that, through its endearing use of Eeyoreish negatives, gives you a flavour of the man.

The one major error I have detected in Perkins' is the confident assertion that she would not have tried to expurgate every unflattering reference.
There are no music examples, but, as in Professor Todd's , a number of plates that illustrate Mendelssohn's talent as a draughtsman and water-colourist.
On the debit side, a number of discrepancies detract from an otherwise riveting .
In some ways, this should be applauded for its total absence of the prurient interest so common to most of its peers.
On the downside, this dependency on and history means that sometimes the tales do not stand in their own right.
Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning continues this tense push-pull struggle with throughout its pages.
It is neither a full-scale nor a comprehensive history of the Korean War.
The artist was drawn to Ludwig's life after seeing a on the eccentric king's behaviour.
This massive describes the rise to power of the last great English churchman to preside over the King's government.
With regard to literary genre, Mark's gospel is a , similar to other lives of famous people written in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
Both deeper and wider than a , the book documents and vivifies events that still affect us today.
Neil McKenna's 2003 , The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, offers an exploration of Wilde's sexuality.
William Roper's of More was one of the first biographies in Modern English.
Tilley is the author of a of the Australian performer Leigh Bowery titled Leigh Bowery, The Life and Times of an Icon.
An early of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow, Fulke Greville.
He is also the subject of perhaps the most famous in English literature, namely The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell.
His early works include the Life of Mr Richard Savage, the poems London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, and the play Irene.
When it came to , Johnson disagreed with Plutarch's use of biography to praise and to teach morality.
Johnson's thoughts on and on poetry coalesced in his understanding of what would make a good critic.
These early writings coloured all subsequent and have become embedded in a body of Keats legend.

Inspired by the 1997 Keats penned by Andrew Motion, it stars Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny.
Sir Timothy threatened to stop the allowance if any of the poet were published.
Also in 1845, Percy Bysshe Shelley's cousin Thomas Medwin approached her claiming to have written a damaging of Percy Shelley.
Soon after Percy Shelley's death, Mary Shelley determined to write his .
Anthony Powell mentions in his review of that contains that in his view Belloc was thoroughly antisemitic, at all but a personal level.
The situation was compounded as successive generations of the family expunged and sanitized the already opaque details of Austen's .
In 1991, Michael Shelden, an American professor of literature, published a .
Hermione Lee's 1996 Virginia Woolf provides a thorough and authoritative examination of Woolf's life and work.
Wilson's was not the first to address the question of Lewis's relationship with Moore.
Each interview begins with a short of the interviewee, including their major publications.
Listings include a of each inductee and an explanation of his or her achievements in the accounting field.
And no, there's no truth El Tigre's will be called Great Expectorations.
In the of cancer, retinoblastoma is a lead character.
The festival is taking in tartan noir, erotica, horror, and poetry with some music and film thrown in too.
Thanks largely to the research of John Harley, knowledge of Byrd's has expanded in recent years.
In Eisenhower Jean Edward Smith has produced what may well be the best one-volume on this figure.
According to articles, reports and a , Turpin couldn't deal with the obscurity resulting from the loss of his crown.
American seaman Haskell Wexler later won two Academy Awards, the latter for a of his shipmate Woody Guthrie.
As her shouts, Ewa Mataya Laurance is one of the most visible superstars in the history of pocket billiards.
Roberts ends this detailed with appendixes on Coxeter groups and diagrams as well as Fibonacci numbers and phyllotaxis.

Peavy and Smith have collaborated on 10 books on women's history and .
There has only been one , written by Paul Allen, and this primarily covers his career in the theatre.
He also wrote his first book there, a of Giacomo Meyerbeer, an opera composer.
Cleo McNelly Kearns notes in her that Eliot was deeply influenced by Indic traditions, notably the Upanishads.
In 1984, he wrote his first book, a of the band Duran Duran, as well as Ghastly Beyond Belief, a book of quotations, with Kim Newman.
Alan Llwyd's 2011 of Roberts used diaries and letters to shed fresh light on her private life and her relationship with Morris.
But who needs one more perfectly excellent Mozart ?
A newspaper review of a Conrad suggested that the book could have been subtitled Thirty Years of Debt, Gout, Depression and Angst.
Aymer Vallance was commissioned to produce the first of Morris, published in 1897, after Morris' death, as per the latter's wishes.
In 1973 Burton agreed to play Josip Broz Tito in a film , since he admired the Yugoslav leader.
In his of his father, Francis Deng deals frankly and in detail with Deng Majok's prodigious uxoriousness.
The cultural of urnfields and the long-term history of a mythical landscape.
In Updike, literary critic Adam Begley offers the first full-length on a larger-than-life American writer.
An experiment in , rather less successful than Symons' Corvine, on a par perhaps with Ackroyd's Dickensian direct address strategems.
In his , Ploughman of the Moon, Service recalled that his second effort, The Ballads of a Cheechako, also caused the House some anxiety.
Foran is the author most recently of the of Mordecai Richler, another iconic Montrealer.
The 1988 by Melvyn Bragg provides a detailed description of the many health issues that plagued Burton throughout his life.
He was stunned by the backlash from some of the sleazier revelations in Tom Bower's recent tell-all , Sweet Revenge.
Science historian Daniel Lewis set out to write a of Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian's first curator of birds.
In The Puppetmaster, the life of Li Tien-lu the Taiwanese puppeteer is the subject of Hou's hybrid fictional and documentary film.

This year's Costa book award shortlists in five categories, novel, first novel, poetry, and children's book, have been announced.
In the of Helen Keller, for example, one chapter has definition boxes for Emanuel Swendenborg and the Braillewriter.
Another stereotyped feature of the criminal was the portrayal of the biographee in the role of criminal-as-sinner.
But Jim Steinmeyer's efficient though vexing new makes it clear why we all live today in Charles Fort's benightedly bizarre world.
The locus classicus for this modern-sounding concept occurs in a contemporary by Wipo, a member of the royal chapel.
Heinlein, In Dialogue With His Century, William Patterson has given us a scholarly doorstop that's smoothly readable.
Happenstance opened the book for me to the of Margaret Leeson, listed only as Brothel-keeper.
Her recent book provides us with a new paradigm for modern .
The includes conjectures about the writer's earliest ambitions.
Alfred commissioned Bishop Asser to write his , which inevitably emphasised Alfred's positive aspects.
Gruffudd ap Cynan's was first written in Latin and intended for a wider audience outside Wales.
However, Hibbert notes in his that the letter can be found among the Duke's papers, with nothing written on it.
Rolt, in his of the Stephensons, describes the event in some detail.
His was first written by Cardinal Boso in his extension to the Liber Pontificalis.
Written by their daughter-in-law, this joint defly interlaces the personal and political to tell a human story behind the national struggle.
David Harris Willson's 1956 continued much of this hostility.
Evading Sir Timothy's ban on a , Mary Shelley often included in these editions her own annotations and reflections on her husband's life and work.
It's about a young man who tries to distill the true of his dying father by looking for the kernels of truth in the many tall tales he has told.
Hardy is a key character, played by Jeremy Irons, in the 2015 movie The Man Who Knew Infinity, based on the of Ramanujan with the same title.
Rolt in his of Stephenson suggests that a faction on the Board continued to ask Stephenson for second opinions, and Rennie took umbrage at this.

Writing his , Funny Peculiar, also had an influence.
Very few knew the details of his early life until six years after his death, when John Forster published a on which Dickens had collaborated.
The first version appeared in about 715 followed by a later revision in the 730s, the first written by a contemporary to appear in England.
The Color of Law spares no detail in its intimate portrayal of a real-life hero of the courtroom, and is a worthy addition to college and public library shelves.
In the Eighteenth Century Shakespeare's image was in the ascendant, beginning with Nicholas Rowe's in 1709, the primary source of the Stratfordian story.
Hamid's own reflects these trifurcated notions of origin and questions the ease with which the native, the immigrant, or the cosmopolitan is defined.
The History is a Renaissance , remarkable more for its literary skill and adherence to classical precepts than for its historical accuracy.
As related in the book The Life and Times of Private Eye, Moss was the subject of a less than respectful cartoon in the magazine Private Eye.
One of Orwell accused him of having had an authoritarian streak.
The most obvious flaw of this is its relentless tendentiousness.
The term hagiography may be used to refer to the of a saint or highly developed spiritual being in any of the world's spiritual traditions.
In the chapter of Pisa three years later Bonaventure's Legenda maior was approved as the only of Francis and all previous biographies were ordered to be destroyed.
Rick Dodgson had filled the gap by offering the first academic of the best-selling author and inspirational figure amongst psychedelic enthusiasts.
The Victorian age witnessed a continuation of Milton's influence, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy being particularly inspired by Milton's poetry and .
Though at least one of Virginia Woolf appeared in her lifetime, the first authoritative study of her life was published in 1972 by her nephew Quentin Bell.
And I would gladly swap the BBC's mean-spirited drama for the far more even-handed approach in Barbara Stoney's excellent of Enid Blyton.
A new musical by Wirral songwriter Dean Johnson, called Ice Picks And Violets, aims to shed some light on what might have happened in their last moments.
But the Sunday Mirror can reveal Arrival Films has bought the rights for a six-figure sum from Lenny's widow Val and the ghostwriter of his , Pete Gerrard.
The stage play Being Sellers premiered in Australia in 1998, three years after the release of the by Roger Lewis, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
Huxley was commissioned by Walt Disney in 1945 to write a script based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the of the story's author, Lewis Carroll.

Like his wonderful book on Cannonball Adderley, Walk Tall, this new of flutist Herbie Mann treats us to an album-by-album chronicle of the musician's life.
Crawford published a of Elizabeth and Margaret's childhood years entitled The Little Princesses in 1950, much to the dismay of the royal family.
The first full was published in 1848 by Richard Monckton Milnes.
Capua, author of many Hollywood film star biographies and correspondent for an Italian film magazine, provides a of American film legend Janet Leigh.
Several costumes and banners featured images of pigs following claims in a new that Mr Cameron took part in a bizarre initiation ceremony at Oxford.
The proposals were first published in 1970 in a of de Valera.
Barrow, in his on Robert the Bruce, accused Edward of ruthlessly exploiting the leaderless state of Scotland to obtain a feudal superiority over the kingdom.
FitzGibbon's 1965 ignores Thomas's heavy drinking and skims over his death, giving just two pages in his detailed book to Thomas's demise.

Chapter 2 summarizes Dominici's and his activities as a preacher, writer, diplomat, and pedagogue.
This is Mr. Van Doren at his worst and hack at normal.
Suzanne then slipped away to her new victim, whose must here be given.
A handful of inset black-and-white photographs illustrate this respectful of a true believer.
And if his were written from his childhood to his death, it would be not only an ensample, but confusion to the world.
Judge Driscoll had generously left the law feature out of Wilson's which he had furnished to the twins.
Readers may remember the first chapter of my of Watkin Tench about my work in tracing his family in Chester, England.
Why does Boswell yet wear the crown of indivisible supremacy in ?
This act, a bar-sinister in the of Gorges, sullies his escutcheon at the outset.
Neil Clark, author of a brief of john deere, states that the diamond-shaped piece was cut out of a circular saw.
With the opening installment of the first serial the Free Press published a photograph of the author over a stickful of .
Mr. Bingley also, in his animal , says that eels are viviparous.











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a person’s life story as told by another person

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1. It contains the biography collection of different

2. 'I've been asked by a representative of the Danvers House Foundation to research Miss Danvers' papers and try to put together a biography

3. Joe like I told you elsewhere in my biography , is a pretty good mechanic and pretty good parts man and he quickly figured out that the timing chain was gone on the car and it needed to be replaced

4. Would you like to reflect with me on what follows, thinking about how your biography might be projected on the big screen? Would it be billed as a drama, or a comedy, or maybe even a horror story? Or perhaps a bit of all of the previous, rolled into one super full-length movie that will surely have sequels to be made in the years ahead?

5. Whatever the case, how about reflecting with me on what follows, thinking about how your biography might be projected on the big screen? Ready or not, here we go…

6. Maybe I have a only few hours left in this body or many more years until I gasp my last breath and my biography then comes to a final conclusion

7. Read any objective biography of Stalin, and at least one unbiased history of the Soviet Union in the thirties

8. (I wish I could recall the title of the biography I found it in

9. A biography to finish with

10. However, according to his biography , he

11. Some information from his biography which I share with you below

12. He did left a cryptic message in his biography the day he left

13. His biography appeared in that year’s edition of “Noteworthy Americans of the Bicentennial Era” and also in “International Register of Profiles - World Edition, 1976”

14. Roger had al ready been cited in “Outstanding Educators of America” (1971), “Dictionary of International Biography ” (1973) and “Men of Achievement” (1974)

15. The list includes "Outstanding Educators of America" 1971, "Dictionary of International Biography " 1973, "Men of Achievement" 1974, "Noteworthy Americans of the Bicentennial Era" and "Who’s Who in the West" 1975, International Register of Profiles World Edition 1976, and "Who’s Who among Hispanic Americans" 1992-93

16. Love, Trip After my father died, one of his television stations put together a videotape biography on him, which did a good job of tracking his life

17. When you were playing Time of the Ages you could just focus your attention on any character and it would bring up complete biography and stats

18. Whenever she faced insurmountable difficulties in her more than thirty years of mission to protect the environment in India, she would turn to his biography for strength and renew her determination to pursue her objectives

19. In his biography , it is stated that "Bradman was most taken by Tendulkar's technique, compactness and shot production, and had asked his wife to have a look at Tendulkar, having felt that Tendulkar played like him

20. Your biography , as it relates to your expertise

21. It was an afternoon to forget – which I did until twenty-two years later when a lecturer in English literature approached me in the staffroom bearing a recent biography of his hero, Anthony Burgess

22. I finally found what I was searching for, a biography of the Commodore

23. Nakamura’s security file was an interesting read if you enjoyed a biography of one of America’s best and brightest citizens---a Horatio Alger story if there ever was one

24. How could he have given her the true Dracos biography ? The old dear would have gone apoplexic

25. The biography worked its way to her status as a social policy critic and friend to seniors always working hard to improve the lives of seniors and help out their families

26. His biography is in the Dictionary of Literary Biography , and his

27. in the running the Stallman story as a biography

28. ning that O'Reilly intended to publish the biography both as a

29. this is a biography of Richard Stallman, it seemed inappropri-

30. thought of writing a historical biography

31. Allan Nevins wrote a friendly biography of the robber baron from Cleveland, which I haven’t read

32. But even a Potter book or a presidential biography with high sales may not be in the class of one that is struggling to get exposed to the public

33. The book, appropriately enough, is called, The Beatles: The Illustrated And Updated Edition Of The Best-selling Authorized Biography

34. ‘’We are checking on that right now, sir, but she officially is an only child and her parents died in a car accident when she was sixteen, according to her official biography

35. It’s the critical biography of the man who rose to become Speaker of the House – I wouldn’t want him in mine

36. For a delightful and informative read, I recommend Appetite for Life: The Biography of

37. To understand how bad things were, read the biography of a great woman, Mother

38. First, I am what my official biography and military file says 419

39. Speedbumps: Flooring it through Hollywood is the biography of the actress, Teri Garr

40. History, an entertaining, sometimes hysterical biography of the maturing of a journalist, growing up in New Jersey

41. I saw a Ken Burns biography of the development of broadcast radio and (infant) TV last night and how two American engineers, Lee DeForrest and Edwin Howard Armstrong spent 20 years and millions in attorneys fees and court costs (1930s-1950s) to contest patents in court

42. Kevin’s book, My Life as a Furry Red Monster: What Being Elmo Has Taught Me about Life, Love and Laughing out Loud, is the biography of a teacher, who was dedicated to follow his dream without a college degree, which he has achieved

43. whose biography is a litany of irresponsibility and grievance about his

44. Your biography is dictated by

45. Ignoring the fact that the authorities in Poland rarely deprived any writer of the freedom of expression, Tsosnik’s magisterial biography of Pilsudski had just emerged after years of internment by the censor

46. Once out of the conference room, Ingrid went to her office, where Senior Airman Denise Bateman was waiting for her, finding her reading with great interest the book on Nancy Laplante that Ingrid had written years ago along with her own biography as a female fighter pilot during World War Two

47. questioned by the masses In Letters from the Earth Mark Twain asserted that the Bible, in describing God, is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere, and that God is a malign thug

48. Could it be that he was no superhero? Or perhaps these moments of indecision were left out of the average superhero biography

49. group: there wil be enough book editors and biography producers interested in their life

50. I remember reading Abbie Hoffman’s biography a long time ago

51. Indeed, it is precisely this apparent lack of a biography that qualifies these leaders to represent and bring about a fantastic and grandiose future

52. It was faith in Christ's "words of eternal life" which made that honourable woman, Catherine Tait, as recorded in a most touching biography , resign five children in five weeks to the grave, in the full assurance that Christ would keep His word, take care of them both in body and soul, and bring them with Him to meet her at the last day

53. According to her biography she met acknowledged genius the famous Albert Einstein

54. material for that biography

55. about me having met Quick or Teef, or about the biography

56. Loyd and Alicia had finished writing their sections of Quick’s biography , but Dale, Jeremy and I still

57. An attempt is made here towards this end that owes the content, and at times the text even, wherever quoted, of “Muhammad – his life based on the earliest sources”, the remarkable biography by Martin Lings published by Inner Traditions International, USA

58. The following episode in Martin Ling’s biography of Muhammad would be illustrative

59. In madrasas that the clergy preside over are attended by the majority of the Muslim children, the topics of study include an introduction to the Muslim faith and practice, worship forms, biography of the Prophet Muhammad, and stories of other heroes of the faith

60. But for now, the Musalmans are ever on the look out for the ways and means to assert their Islamic separateness, which, for the muse of a poet would seem: Oh goddamn faith, how thou divide ‘the God’ from gods and ‘the Musalmans’ from other humans! Why if only the moulanas approach Muhammad’s life, not in awe but with insight, for a solution to their vexatious separatist inhibitions, pointers are aplenty in Martin Ling’s biography of his

61. Can an animal be a “helpful scholar and a consultan?” can an animal have a laboratory to do research and fill the literature with different discoveries? Can an animal prepare his own biography ? Can an animal be NASA swimming in space?

62. this advice which I came across while reading the biography that

63. Then, there are those with genuine prejudices too, and these had much to do with the denunciations of Islam that were carried out in Europe during the Crusades, which passed on from generation to generation, and Karen Armstrong has written on the same in her very balanced biography of Prophet Muhammad, in which she has also critiqued the prophet on some points, and as a reviewer has put it, she has been “respectful but not reverential”

64. That is exactly as we mentioned in the biography of the Meccan

65. is the biography of Muhammad and the Hadith is what Muhammad

66. A Beautiful Mind is a movie based on the dramatic and moving biography by Sylvia Nasar about John Forbes Nash, Jr

67. Your biography , as it relates to your expertise for this book

68. 210,gives a short biography , though the study is in the main apenetrating investigation of

69. We are rankly vegetarian again, Papa leading the way with immense determination, for he has set his heart at this unfortunate juncture on a new biography of Goethe that must needs come out just now, a big thing in two volumes costing a terrible number of marks, very well done, full of the result of original digging among archives; but he dare not buy it, he says, in the present state of our affairs

70. It was the official biography of Michael Wong, showing his personal antecedents and his professional qualifications and experience

71. The details were again scant but they did answer the question as to why his most prominent medical position was not included in the previous biography

72. She too was worried she might he dragged into a mess even though all she had done was provide him with Michael Wong’s biography

73. Then what I found amusing in the biography of

74. They contain logical arguments, poetry, songs and hymns, history, biography , stories, parables, fables, eloquence, law, letters and philosophy

75. In Heredia's biography two factsshould be stressed: that

76. From Verdi’s biography derives that his first bad season ended in 1825, while a

77. Picasso’s biography shows that a bad season started for him in 1892, which was

78. biography I had already studied

79. For this purpose, I took the biography of Napoléon I, who was almost an exact contemporary of Beethoven

80. From Napoléon’s biography derives that his good and bad seasons alternated at

81. * I have based all Hugo’s biography in this chapter on Cesare Giardini’s Hugo,

82. From Hugo’s biography derives that his seasons alternated every 16-17 years in

83. * My main source for Churchill’s biography of this chapter is Sebastian Haffner’s

84. produced a colossal work, the four-volume biography of his ancestor, Marlborough

85. From Columbus biography is revealed, therefore, that the lives of the persons

86. see in his detailed biography in another chapter– that the good and bad seasons in

87. I’s biography reveals –as her biography cited later shows– that her life’s seasons

88. Thus, Onassis’s biography reveals that the

89. As we’ll see, for example, in Christopher Columbus’s biography later, he

90. biography , though the majority of the British cabinet’s members was against

91. at the age of 50, as we’ll see in his biography , but later he became world’s

92. biography later), and many others had seen their works being rejected during their

93. As we’ll see later in Queen Elizabeth I of England’s biography , when she was three, she legally became a bastard, she was deprived of her title of

94. Gorbachev’s biography shows that his seasonal alternations occurred at the dates

95. But his biography also shows how Gorbachev’s life was radically influenced

96. biography , you’ll also see how the alternations of his good and bad seasons we’ve

97. From Mandela’s biography is confirmed that his seasonal alternations occurred at

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How to write a strong one-line biography (with examples!)

As a blogger or content marketer, you’re spreading your content across the internet to build your name as a thought leader and to drive traffic back to your (or your client’s) website.

One of the best ways to do this is via a strong biography, where sites will often allow you to also link back to somewhere. But you need to get their interest to learn more, so you need a strong one-line biography as most sites will only allow a short biography.

Here’s how you write a strong one-line biography for your blog author page:

Write in 3rd person

Highlight your role/profession.

Keep it short

Include a call to action

Biographies should be written in third person. Instead of “I am a serial entrepreneur…” you should write “John is a serial entrepreneur…”

Some publications may have different guidelines, in which case you should follow them, but as a general guideline always write your bio in 3rd person.

Your bio should tell readers who you are and what you do, so be sure to highlight your role or profession.

“John is a serial entrepreneur and digital marketing veteran who…”

This gives people more information about you, why you are qualified to be talking about the topic you are bylined on, and helps them decide if they want to click your link to learn more.

Don’t be afraid to brag a little bit! In our world of fake humility, finding someone who is willing to state what they’ve done can be refreshing and encourage them to click to learn more about you.

Don’t overdo it though. A quick interesting fact is usually more than enough to get them interested.

For example:

“John is a serial entrepreneur and digital marketing leader who via his company Credo has generated over a quarter billion dollars in leads for agencies since 2015.”

The lead value number is a brag, but it’s also true and lets people know that John knows what he’s doing.

Have some fun!

In today’s social media world, people want to connect with the person behind the account.

So don’t be afraid to use emojis or a bit of humor.

This advice does not carry over to a professional website like LinkedIn where people are more professional and you should present your best face to the world.

Keep it short, but readable

If you’re required to keep your biography to just one sentence, you have just 15 to 20 words on average to get your point across. You need to be succinct and make every word count.

As such, remove superlatives and flowery language that could make it harder to read. This is not the place to be cute or show off – it’s the place to communicate effectively.

Include a backlink/hyperlink

Most websites where you publish will allow you to link back to a site of your choice from your biography. Don’t be spammy and try to link back to multiple places – link to a place where people can find out more about you or your company easily.

Finally, include a call to action (CTA) if you have enough space and can work it in. At minimum, make sure you follow the above advice and include a hyperlink back to your main website where people can learn more about you or your business.

Some examples

Here are some examples of great bios.

Dan Martell (Instagram)

Dan Martell is a coach to software founders, an entrepreneur with 3 business exits, an award-winning angel investor, and a proud dad and husband.

How do we know this? Because he says so in his Instagram bio. Short and effective.

Kimberly Bryant

Kimberly Bryant is the founder of Black Girls Code , a company that “build[s] pathways for young women of color to embrace the current tech marketplace as builders and creators by introducing them to skills in computer programming and technology.” Here is her Twitter biography, which clearly states what she does and gives insight into who she is.

Chris Ducker

Chris Ducker is a UK-based entrepreneur who “helps midlife leaders and entrepreneurs build future proof businesses around their expertise” with his Youpreneur coaching program.

Pat Flynn is a serial entrepreneur, dad, and husband who also has a physical product and a Pokemon card side hustle with over 100,000 YouTube subscribers. Here’s his Instagram profile:

Rand Fishkin

Rand is also a serial entrepreneur and currently the CEO of Sparktoro, an audience insight software tool. He’s formerly the cofounder and CEO of Moz, an SEO software suite. His LinkedIn bio says succinctly what he does, and also adds a bit of personality to let you know what he believes.

John Doherty

John is the founder and CEO of Credo and EditorNinja. (Hi, I’m John writing this!). His bio tells you what he cares about (his family and Colorado), what he does and the various projects he works on as well as his accomplishments.

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How to Write a Biography: A Step-by-Step Guide

By Hannah Yang

What is a biography, a step-by-step guide to writing a biography, tips for how to write a great biography, conclusion on how to write a biography.

Writing a biography can be a rewarding endeavor, but it can also feel a bit daunting if you’ve never written one before.

Whether you’re capturing the life story of a famous person, a family member, or even yourself, creating a compelling biography involves a mix of thorough research, narrative skill, and a personal touch.

So, how exactly do you write a successful biography?

In this guide, we’ll break down the essentials to help you craft a biography that’s both informative and engaging, as well as our top tips for how to make it truly shine.

A biography is a detailed account of someone’s life.

A well-written biography needs to be objective and accurate. At the same time, it needs to depict more than just the basic facts like birth, education, work, relationships, and death—it should also portray the subject’s personal experience of those events.

So, in addition to being a good researcher, a good biographer also needs to be a good storyteller. You should provide insights into the subject’s personality, motivations, and impact on the world around them.

What’s the Difference Between a Biography, a Memoir, and an Autobiography?

What's the difference between biography, memoir and autobiography?

Understanding the distinctions between different genres of life writing is crucial for both writers and readers. Here’s a quick breakdown of the key differences between a biography and other related genres.

Biography: a detailed account of a person’s life, usually written in the third-person POV and supported by extensive research

Autobiography: a self-written account of the author’s own life, usually written in the first person POV and following a chronological order

Memoir: a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events that took place in their life, usually in the first person POV and in an introspective and personal way

Narrative nonfiction: a book that tells true stories using the techniques of fiction writing, such as character development, narrative arc, and detailed settings

Best Biography Examples to Study

The best way to learn how to write well is to read other successful books within the genre you’re writing.

Here are five great biographies to add to your reading list. For a longer list, check out our article on the 20 best biographies to read .

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand: the incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympian and World War II hero.

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson: a comprehensive and engaging account of the Apple co-founder’s life.

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow: the biography that inspired the hit musical, providing a deep dive into Hamilton ’ s life and legacy.

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford: a nuanced story that uncovers the family connection between the three Millay sisters and their mother.

Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston: the story of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

As with writing any book, writing a biography is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s easier to think of it as a series of smaller steps than as one big challenge to tackle.

Let’s break down the process step by step.

1. Choose Your Subject

Decide who you want to write about. It could be a well-known celebrity, a historical figure, or someone close to you.

In addition to figuring out who you’re writing about, this is also the step where you figure out why you want to write about them. Why is this a story worth telling, and what makes you interested in it?

Maybe the subject of your biography overcame major hardships in life to achieve success, and that story will inspire others facing similar struggles. Or maybe they made a really unique contribution to the world that not enough people know about, and you want to shine a bigger spotlight on that impact.

Knowing why you’re telling this story will help you make the right decisions about how to research, outline, draft, and edit your biography.

2. Identify Your Target Audience

Understanding your target audience is a crucial step in writing a good biography. You should tailor your biography to the interests and knowledge level of your audience.

A biography for a general audience will differ from one written for experts in a particular field. For example, two biographies about Emily Dickinson would be vastly different if one is written for young children and the other is written for adult poets.

3. Conduct Research

Dive deep into your research. Use a variety of sources to get a well-rounded view of your subject’s life. Take detailed notes and organize your findings.

Gather as much information as you can about your subject. This includes primary sources like interviews, letters, and diaries, as well as secondary sources such as books, articles, and documentaries.

Here are some primary sources to look for:

Letters and diaries: These provide intimate insights into the subject’s thoughts, feelings, and daily life, and can often be found in family archives, libraries, and historical societies.

Birth, marriage, and death certificates: These documents can provide crucial dates and familial relationships.

Census data: Census records can provide demographic information and track changes over time.

Property records: These can reveal where the subject lived and owned property.

Employment and school records: These records offer formalized insights into the subject’s education and career.

Military records: If applicable, military records can provide information on service, ranks, and honors.

Photos and videos: Look for photographs and videos in public libraries, historical societies, online databases like the Library of Congress, and family photo albums.

Historical newspapers: Access archives of local and national newspapers for articles, interviews, and obituaries related to the subject.

Digital archives: Use online resources like ProQuest, Chronicling America, and newspaper databases available through public libraries.

You can also look for secondary sources, which provide more context and perspective, such as:

Existing biographies: Search for existing biographies and books about the subject or their era. How does your project stand out from the crowd?

Academic articles and papers: Access journals through university libraries, which often have extensive collections of scholarly articles.

Documentaries and biographical films: You can often find these on streaming services or public television archives.

Websites and blogs: Look for reputable websites and blogs dedicated to the subject or related fields.

Social media platforms: The things people say on social media can offer insights into public perception about your subject.

Finally, you can also conduct your own interviews. Talk to the subject if they’re still alive, as well as their friends, family, and colleagues. You can ask them for personal anecdotes to add more color to your book, or more information to fill in any gaps in your knowledge.

4. Ask Engaging Questions

Great biographers start from a place of curiosity. Before you start writing, you should know the answers to the following questions:

What makes your subject’s story worth telling?

What was your subject’s childhood like?

What were your subject’s early interests and hobbies?

What level of education did your subject achieve and where did they study?

What was your subject’s personality like?

What were their beliefs and values?

How did your subject’s personality and beliefs change over time?

What were the major turning points in your subject’s life?

How was your subject affected by the major political, cultural, and societal events that occurred throughout their life?

What did their career path look like?

What were their major accomplishments?

What were their major failures?

How did they contribute to their field, their country, or their community?

Were they involved in any major controversies or scandals?

Who were the most important people in the subject’s life, such as friends, partners, or mentors?

If the subject is no longer living, how did they pass away?

What lasting impact did the subject leave behind?

5. Create an Outline

An outline helps you structure your biography. You can write an extensive outline that includes every scene you need to write, or you can keep it simple and just make a list of high-level bullet points—whatever works best for your writing process.

The best structure to use will depend on the shape of the story you’re trying to tell. Think about what your subject’s life looked like and what core messages you’re trying to leave the reader with.

If you want to keep things simple, you can simply go in chronological order. Tell the story from the birth of your subject to the death of your subject, or to the present day if this person is still living.

You can also use a more thematically organized structure, similar to what you would find on a Wikipedia page. You could break your book down into sections such as major life events, personal relationships, core accomplishments, challenges, and legacy.

Or, if you want to be more creative, you can use a nonlinear story structure, jumping between recent events and older flashbacks based on which events feel thematically tied together.

6. Write Your First Draft

Now that you have an outline, it’s time to sit down and write your first draft.

Your opening chapters should hook the reader and give a preview of what’s to come. Highlight a compelling aspect of the subject’s life to draw readers in.

In your middle chapters, cover all the key events you need to include about your subject’s life and weave in themes and anecdotes that reveal their personality and impact.

In your final chapters, wrap up your biography by summarizing the subject’s legacy and reflecting on their overall significance. This provides closure and leaves the reader with a lasting impression.

Remember that it’s okay if your first draft isn’t perfect. Your goal is simply to get words down on the page so you have something to edit.

7. Make Developmental Revisions

Now that you’re done with your first draft, it’s time to make big-picture revisions.

Review your biography for coherence and organization. Does the overall structure make sense? Are there any arcs or themes that aren’t given enough attention? Are there scenes or chapters that don’t need to be included?

8. Make Line Edits

Once you’ve completed your developmental edits, it’s time to make smaller line edits. This is your time to edit for grammar, punctuation, and style.

Make sure you keep a consistent voice throughout the book. Some biographies feel more conversational and humorous, while others are serious and sophisticated.

To get through your editing faster, you can run your manuscript through ProWritingAid , which will automatically catch errors, point out stylistic inconsistencies, and help you rephrase confusing sentences.

Don’t be afraid to ask others for feedback. No good book is written in a vacuum, and you can ask critique partners and beta readers to help you improve your work.

What makes a great biography stand out from the rest? Here are our best tips for how to take your manuscript to the next level.

Tip 1: Focus on Key Themes

Identify the central themes or patterns in the subject’s life—the ones that will really make readers keep thinking about your book. These could be related to the subject’s struggles, achievements, relationships, or values.

Tip 2: Balance Facts and Narrative

A good biography should read like a story, not a list of facts.

Use narrative techniques like imagery, character development, and dialogue to create a compelling and coherent story.

Tip 3: Add Your Own Perspective

Biographies need to be objective, but that doesn’t mean the author has to be entirely invisible. Including your own perspective can make the biography relatable and engaging.

Letting your voice shine can help illustrate the subject ’ s character and bring their story to life. It will also help make your biography stand out from the crowd.

Tip 4: Create a Timeline

Organize the key events of the subject’s life in chronological order. This will help you see the bigger picture and ensure you cover all important aspects.

Tip 5: Be Considerate

Because biographies are about real people, you should be mindful of who will be impacted by the story you’re telling, especially if your subject is still alive or still has living family members.

If the subject is still alive, ask them for permission to tell their story before you start writing. This also helps ensure that you don’t get sued.

Writing a biography is a journey of discovery, not just about the subject, but also about the craft of storytelling.

By combining thorough research, a clear structure, and engaging narrative techniques, you can create a biography that not only informs but also inspires and captivates your readers.

Don’t forget to run your manuscript through ProWritingAid so you can make sure your prose is as polished as possible.

Now, pick your subject, gather your resources, and start writing—there’s a fascinating story waiting to be told.

Good luck, and happy writing!

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This biography offers a few glimpses of his life before he became famous .
Her biography revealed that she was not as rich as everyone thought .
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Should serial killers serve multiple sentences consecutively? Winnipeg case ignites debate

4 life sentences for jeremy skibicki 'really means nothing' because they're concurrent: victim advocate.

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WARNING: This story contains details about violence against Indigenous women.

The brutal acts of a Winnipeg serial killer that left even the judge who handed him a life sentence calling that punishment inadequate have illuminated a debate over how long people convicted of multiple murders should wait before getting a chance to apply for parole.

Jeremy Skibicki, 37, was officially sentenced Wednesday after being convicted in July of first-degree murder in the deaths of four Indigenous women in 2022. While each charge carries a mandatory life sentence without a chance of parole for 25 years, a 2022 decision from the Supreme Court of Canada ruled those sentences must be served concurrently, not one after another.

That means Skibicki is in effect serving the same sentence he'd have gotten if he'd only been convicted of murdering one woman — which doesn't sit well with some.

"You may say that he has four sentences, but what does that really mean? It really means nothing, because he's serving them all at the same time," said Karen Wiebe, the executive director of the non-profit Manitoba Organization for Victim Assistance. Her 20-year-old son, TJ Wiebe, was murdered in 2003 .

That sentiment echoed ones shared outside the courthouse following Skibicki's sentencing, when family of one of the victims and Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Cathy Merrick said they would prefer to see his sentences served consecutively.

If that was an option, it would mean the four 25-year parole ineligibility periods could be stacked, and Skibicki could remain in jail with no chance of parole for as long as 100 years.

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"I think that we just might have to change the legal system when it comes to consecutive sentencing, because he's got to be accountable for the four deaths that he committed," Merrick said, adding she's still confident that even though he'll be allowed to apply for parole after his 25-year period is up, Skibicki will "stay in that cell for the rest of his life."

In sentencing the murderer, Manitoba Court of King's Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal said while he agreed with the Supreme Court's 2022 ruling, he thinks it was "purposely silent" on whether the law could eventually be changed for future cases like this one — leaving the door open for "an even more serious sanction … for cases involving, for example, a serial killer."

A courtroom sketch shows a bald man with a beard and glasses in the accused box, with a sheriff sitting in a chair on one side of him and his lawyers on the other side. In front of them, a judge listens from the bench.

But one legal expert says even though Skibicki will be allowed to apply for parole, the chance of him getting it is "virtually nonexistent," given the "horrific details" of his crimes, and their impact on victims' families and public safety, all of which the parole board will consider if he does apply.

But even for the worst offenders, for whom parole prospects are slim, "it's important for inmates to have some incentive to abide by prison rules and to have some hope for their future. Our [justice] system really depends on that," said Lisa Kerr, an associate law professor at Queen's University.

"It may be sort of an emotionally appealing thing to say 'we should not even have a hearing 25 years down the road,' but it would be a very dysfunctional change in terms of how the prison system operates."

Should the notwithstanding clause be used?

Kerr said the Supreme Court's 2022 decision to get rid of consecutive life sentences — introduced in 2011 legislation under Stephen Harper's Conservative government — wasn't about whether any particular offender deserves such an extreme punishment, but whether Canada should have to abide by any limits in the penalties it's allowed to give.

The old law was "a very blunt tool," she said, and deciding to bring it back now would be "betraying our values" as a country committed to constitutional rights, human dignity and rehabilitation.

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"It's important to remember this is a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court of Canada. There was no debate … because they understood the stakes here," Kerr said.

"They also understood that this does not mean that we can't impose very severe punishment [for serious offenders] … and keep them separate from us for the rest of his natural life."

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But another legal expert says the high court's decision means "the ball is in Parliament's court now" to decide whether changes to the law are needed — and he thinks there's a "fairly realistic chance" that could include using the notwithstanding clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms .

The Supreme Court's 2022 decision found that stacking consecutive blocks of parole ineligibility violated the Charter's prohibition on "cruel and unusual treatment or punishment."

But the notwithstanding clause allows governments to temporarily override other Charter sections. Using it in this instance would be sensible, said Brandon Trask, an assistant law professor at the University of Manitoba, since it would be "targeted just at the most heinous offences committed by individuals who not only killed — absolutely horrific on its own — but killed repeatedly."

Trask said he respects the Supreme Court's decision, but "respectfully disagree[s]" with its reasons — particularly their focus on the dignity of an offender.

"I view that as quite ironic in a case such as this," he told CBC's Information Radio host Marcy Markusa. "The focus on human dignity here does seem, in my personal view, somewhat misplaced."

However, Trask said he'd be "quite reluctant" to see the clause used repeatedly in the justice system — and even if it was tapped to change the law now, it wouldn't have the power to alter Skibicki's sentence.

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Debate over whether to use the notwithstanding clause to override the Supreme Court's decision — something Kerr said would be a "really extreme measure" — swirled long before Skibicki's sentencing, including a pledge from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to use it to reinstate the Harper-era law .

Manitoba Progressive Conservative MLA Kelvin Goertzen also made a similar statement on social media following Skibicki's sentencing.

Premier Wab Kinew said Skibicki "should never be free again," but added that any future parole hearings should take into account the impact of his killings.

Changes could delay 'horrifying' parole process

Trask also said having a longer parole ineligibility period for cases like Skibicki's would mean delaying or even preventing the difficult experience of participating in parole board hearings for victims' families.

Victim advocate Wiebe said that process is important but "horrifying," forcing victims and families to relive the trauma of what happened to them — and to be once again in the same room as the offender, if they choose to appear at the hearing.

A spokesperson for federal Justice Minister Arif Virani said at the time of the Supreme Court's decision on consecutive sentencing, the then attorney general "strongly defended and supported a sentencing judge's ability to impose a longer period of parole ineligibility."

"As you know, the court rejected that position in its 9-0 decision," Anna Lisa Lowenstein said in an email. "We respect the court's independence and its unanimous decision."

The faces of three First Nations women are pictured side by side.

Skibicki was convicted of killing Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois, and a still unidentified woman given the name Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, by community leaders. All four women were killed in Winnipeg between mid-March and May 2022, when Skibicki was arrested.

Harris, 39, and Myran, 26, were both members of Long Plain First Nation. Contois, 24, was from O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation, also known as Crane River. The woman known as Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe was believed to be in her 20s, and court determined based on the evidence she was also Indigenous.

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Skibicki confessed to the murders while he was being interrogated by Winnipeg police in 2022, telling them the killings were racially motivated.

During the weeks-long trial, which was heard before a judge alone, Skibicki's lawyers argued he was not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. Joyal disagreed, saying comments Skibicki made during his confession showed the murders were deliberate and planned.

Contois's partial remains were found in garbage bins near Skibicki's apartment and at the Brady Road landfill in south Winnipeg.

A search for Harris's and Myran's remains — believed to be at the Prairie Green landfill just outside the city — is expected to start in the fall. The location of Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe's remains is unknown.

Support is available for anyone affected by these reports and the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Immediate emotional assistance and crisis support are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week through a national hotline at 1-844-413-6649.

You can also access, through the government of Canada, health support services such as mental health counselling, community-based support and cultural services, and some travel costs to see elders and traditional healers. Family members seeking information about a missing or murdered loved one can access Family Information Liaison Units .

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Caitlyn Gowriluk has been writing for CBC Manitoba since 2019. Her work has also appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, and in 2021 she was part of an award-winning team recognized by the Radio Television Digital News Association for its breaking news coverage of COVID-19 vaccines. Get in touch with her at [email protected].

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Matthew Gardiner sentenced to life in prison for 2021 stabbing murder of Dillon Willis in Karama

By Roxanne Fitzgerald

Topic: Courts and Trials

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The murder occurred in Karama, in Darwin's northern suburbs. ( ABC News: Michael Donnelly )

Matthew Gardiner has been sentenced to life in prison for the stabbing murder of Dillon Willis in Karama in 2021.

Gardiner's brother, Peter, also received a life sentence earlier this week for his role in murdering Mr Willis.

What's next?

Gardiner will be eligible to apply for parole in 2043.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison, and will join his brother who is already serving time, for the murder of 20-year-old Dillon Willis in Darwin's northern suburbs in 2021.

Matthew Gardiner, 29, and his brother Peter, were found guilty of the late-night murder by a jury earlier this year, and both faced sentencing in the Northern Territory Supreme Court this week.

On Tuesday, Peter Gardiner was sentenced to life in prison , with a non-parole period of 20 years.

In the NT, judges are bound to impose a minimum mandatory prison term of 20 years for a single charge of murder, no matter the circumstances of the case.

But on Friday afternoon, Matthew Gardiner was handed a backdated life sentence, with a non-parole period of 22 years.

He will be eligible to apply for release in 2043.

Four police officers conducting forensic investigations stand inside a cordoned off crime scene on the street.

Police remained at the scene of the murder the morning after. ( ABC News: Michael Donnelly )

The court heard that shortly after 11pm on the night of May 26, 2021, the brothers drove to the Karama shopping centre car park armed with "an assortment of knives" and "looking for trouble", and approached a group of three people.

Peter Gardiner had two steak knives down the front of his shorts and Matthew Gardiner was armed with a 15-centimetre knife.

The court heard that "without warning", Matthew Gardiner attacked Mr Willis, stabbing him multiple times, and leaving lethal wounds.

Mr Willis was declared dead hours later.

The court heard Matthew Gardiner then went to the house of the mother of his children, who he'd known since childhood and had been in a lengthy on-and-off relationship with.

Tipped over shopping trolley on street with crimes scene tape

The brothers went to the scene "looking for trouble", the court heard. ( ABC News: Michael Donnelly )

It heard they had a conversation about their children, but then, in another unprovoked attack, Gardiner found a "Japanese-style bread knife", grabbed the woman by the hair and dragged her from the kitchen.

He then stabbed her multiple times.

While Matthew Gardiner had given evidence at trial that he was addicted to the drug ice and hadn't slept for three days prior to the night of the offending, Justice John Burns said there was no evidence to support that he was heavily affected that night.

"Your evidence was that you didn't know what you meant to do at that time, and you had no recollection … of having stabbed the deceased," Justice Burns said, in handing down his sentence.

He said the verdict of the jury was that they were satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Gardiner had acted intentionally when he stabbed Mr Willis.

"I am satisfied [by] your evidence, that you said to your brother after the murder, 'I'm sorry, brother, I didn't mean for that to happen'," he said.

Justice Burns said that while the evidence indicated Gardiner had been neglected as a child and exposed to alcohol abuse in his formative years – reducing his culpability somewhat – he was not convinced Gardiner had shown any real remorse.

A white, modernist, flat-fronted building with "supreme court" in capital letters above a wide entrance.

Ths sentencing was handed down in the NT Supreme Court. ( ABC News: Che Chorley )

The judge also reasoned that with Gardiner's long history of convictions for assaults against women, police and other emergency workers, there was a strong need to protect the public.

"The Crown has urged me to increase the non-parole period beyond the standard 20-year period because of the offence of unlawfully causing serious harm which you committed after you committed the crime of murder," Justice Burns said.

He said he wasn't prepared to draw the inference beyond reasonable doubt that Gardiner intended to kill, but said there could be no doubt he intended to cause serious harm.

"In the absence of honest evidence from you or your brother, it is not possible to determine to the required standard the motive behind this story," Justice Burns said.

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From time to time, nonfiction authors become so captivated by a particular figure from either the present or the past, that they feel compelled to write an entire book about their life. Whether casting them as heroes or villains, there is an interesting quality in their humanity that compels these authors to revisit their life paths and write their story.

However, portraying someone’s life on paper in a comprehensive and engaging way requires solid preparation. If you’re looking to write a biography yourself, in this post we’ll share a step-by-step blueprint that you can follow.

How to write a biography:

1. Seek permission when possible

2. research your subject thoroughly, 3. do interviews and visit locations, 4. organize your findings, 5. identify a central thesis, 6. write it using narrative elements, 7. get feedback and polish the text.

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While you technically don’t need permission to write about public figures (or deceased ones), that doesn't guarantee their legal team won't pursue legal action against you. Author Kitty Kelley was sued by Frank Sinatra before she even started to write His Way , a biography that paints Ol Blue Eyes in a controversial light. (Kelley ended up winning the lawsuit, however).

Whenever feasible, advise the subject’s representatives of your intentions. If all goes according to plan, you’ll get a green light to proceed, or potentially an offer to collaborate. It's a matter of common sense; if someone were to write a book about you, you would likely want to know about it well prior to publication. So, make a sincere effort to reach out to their PR staff to negotiate an agreement or at least a mutual understanding of the scope of your project.

At the same time, make sure that you still retain editorial control over the project, and not end up writing a puff piece that treats its protagonist like a saint or hero. No biography can ever be entirely objective, but you should always strive for a portrayal that closely aligns with facts and reality.

If you can’t get an answer from your subject, or you’re asked not to proceed forward, you can still accept the potential repercussions and write an unauthorized biography . The “rebellious act” of publishing without consent indeed makes for great marketing, though it’ll likely bring more headaches with it too.

✋ Please note that, like other nonfiction books, if you intend to release your biography with a publishing house , you can put together a book proposal to send to them before you even write the book. If they like it enough, they might pay you an advance to write it.

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Once you’ve settled (or not) the permission part, it’s time to dive deep into your character’s story.

Deep and thorough research skills are the cornerstone of every biographer worth their salt. To paint a vivid and accurate portrait of someone's life, you’ll have to gather qualitative information from a wide range of reliable sources.

Start with the information already available, from books on your subject to archival documents, then collect new ones firsthand by interviewing people or traveling to locations.

Browse the web and library archives

Illustration of a biographer going into research mode.

Put your researcher hat on and start consuming any piece on your subject you can find, from their Wikipedia page to news articles, interviews, TV and radio appearances, YouTube videos, podcasts, books, magazines, and any other media outlets they may have been featured in.

Establish a system to orderly collect the information you find 一 even seemingly insignificant details can prove valuable during the writing process, so be sure to save them.

Depending on their era, you may find most of the information readily available online, or you may need to search through university libraries for older references.

For his landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow spent untold hours at Columbia University’s library , reading through the Hamilton family papers, visiting the New York Historical Society, as well as interviewing the archivist of the New York Stock Exchange, and so on. The research process took years, but it certainly paid off. Chernow discovered that Hamilton created the first five securities originally traded on Wall Street. This finding, among others, revealed his significant contributions to shaping the current American financial and political systems, a legacy previously often overshadowed by other founding fathers. Today Alexander Hamilton is one of the best-selling biographies of all time, and it has become a cultural phenomenon with its own dedicated musical.

Besides reading documents about your subject, research can help you understand the world that your subject lived in.

Try to understand their time and social environment

Many biographies show how their protagonists have had a profound impact on society through their philosophical, artistic, or scientific contributions. But at the same time, it’s worth it as a biographer to make an effort to understand how their societal and historical context influenced their life’s path and work.

An interesting example is Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World . Finding himself limited by a lack of verified detail surrounding William Shakespeare's personal life, Greenblatt, instead, employs literary interpretation and imaginative reenactments to transport readers back to the Elizabethan era. The result is a vivid (though speculative) depiction of the playwright's life, enriching our understanding of his world.

Painting of William Shakespeare in colors

Many readers enjoy biographies that transport them to a time and place, so exploring a historical period through the lens of a character can be entertaining in its own right. The Diary of Samuel Pepys became a classic not because people were enthralled by his life as an administrator, but rather from his meticulous and vivid documentation of everyday existence during the Restoration period.

Once you’ve gotten your hands on as many secondary sources as you can find, you’ll want to go hunting for stories first-hand from people who are (or were) close to your subject.

With all the material you’ve been through, by now you should already have a pretty good picture of your protagonist. But you’ll surely have some curiosities and missing dots in their character development to figure out, which you can only get by interviewing primary sources.

Interview friends and associates

This part is more relevant if your subject is contemporary, and you can actually meet up or call with relatives, friends, colleagues, business partners, neighbors, or any other person related to them.

In writing the popular biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson interviewed more than one hundred people, including Jobs’s family, colleagues, former college mates, business rivals, and the man himself.

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When you conduct your interviews, make sure to record them with high quality audio you can revisit later. Then use tools like Otter.ai or Descript to transcribe them 一 it’ll save you countless hours.

You can approach the interview with a specific set of questions, or follow your curiosity blindly, trying to uncover revealing stories and anecdotes about your subject. Whatever your method, author and biography editor Tom Bromley suggests that every interviewer arrives prepared, "Show that you’ve done your work. This will help to put the interviewee at ease, and get their best answers.”

Bromley also places emphasis on the order in which you conduct interviews. “You may want to interview different members of the family or friends first, to get their perspective on something, and then go directly to the main interviewee. You'll be able to use that knowledge to ask sharper, more specific questions.”

Finally, consider how much time you have with each interviewee. If you only have a 30-minute phone call with an important person, make it count by asking directly the most pressing questions you have. And, if you find a reliable source who is also particularly willing to help, conduct several interviews and ask them, if appropriate, to write a foreword as part of the book’s front matter .

Sometimes an important part of the process is packing your bags, getting on a plane, and personally visiting significant places in your character’s journey.

Visit significant places in their life

A place, whether that’s a city, a rural house, or a bodhi tree, can carry a particular energy that you can only truly experience by being there. In putting the pieces together about someone’s life, it may be useful to go visit where they grew up, or where other significant events of their lives happened. It will be easier to imagine what they experienced, and better tell their story.

In researching The Lost City of Z , author David Grann embarked on a trek through the Amazon, retracing the steps of British explorer Percy Fawcett. This led Grann to develop new theories about the circumstances surrounding the explorer's disappearance.

Still from the movie The Lost City of Z in which the explorer is surrounded by an Amazon native tribe

Hopefully, you won’t have to deal with jaguars and anacondas to better understand your subject’s environment, but try to walk into their shoes as much as possible.

Once you’ve researched your character enough, it’s time to put together all the puzzle pieces you collected so far.

Take the bulk of notes, media, and other documents you’ve collected, and start to give them some order and structure. A simple way to do this is by creating a timeline.

Create a chronological timeline

It helps to organize your notes chronologically 一 from childhood to the senior years, line up the most significant events of your subject’s life, including dates, places, names and other relevant bits.

You should be able to divide their life into distinct periods, each with their unique events and significance. Based on that, you can start drafting an outline of the narrative you want to create.

Draft a story outline

Since a biography entails writing about a person’s entire life, it will have a beginning, a middle, and an end. You can pick where you want to end the story, depending on how consequential the last years of your subject were. But the nature of the work will give you a starting character arc to work with.

To outline the story then, you could turn to the popular Three-Act Structure , which divides the narrative in three main parts. In a nutshell, you’ll want to make sure to have the following:

Act 1. Setup : Introduce the protagonist's background and the turning points that set them on a path to achieve a goal.
Act 2. Confrontation : Describe the challenges they encounter, both internal and external, and how they rise to them. Then..
Act 3. Resolution : Reach a climactic point in their story in which they succeed (or fail), showing how they (and the world around them) have changed as a result.

Only one question remains before you begin writing: what will be the main focus of your biography?

Think about why you’re so drawn to your subject to dedicate years of your life to recounting their own. What aspect of their life do you want to highlight? Is it their evil nature, artistic genius, or visionary mindset? And what evidence have you got to back that up? Find a central thesis or focus to weave as the main thread throughout your narrative.

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Or find a unique angle

If you don’t have a particular theme to explore, finding a distinct angle on your subject’s story can also help you distinguish your work from other biographies or existing works on the same subject.

Plenty of biographies have been published about The Beatles 一 many of which have different focuses and approaches:

Philip Norman's Shout is sometimes regarded as leaning more towards a pro-Lennon and anti-McCartney stance, offering insights into the band's inner dynamics.
Ian McDonald's Revolution in the Head closely examines their music track by track, shifting the focus back to McCartney as a primary creative force.
Craig Brown's One Two Three Four aims to capture their story through anecdotes, fan letters, diary entries, and interviews.
Mark Lewisohn's monumental three-volume biography, Tune In , stands as a testament to over a decade of meticulous research, chronicling every intricate detail of the Beatles' journey.

Finally, consider that biographies are often more than recounting the life of a person. Similar to how Dickens’ Great Expectations is not solely about a boy named Pip (but an examination and critique of Britain’s fickle, unforgiving class system), a biography should strive to illuminate a broader truth — be it social, political, or human — beyond the immediate subject of the book.

Once you’ve identified your main focus or angle, it’s time to write a great story.

Illustration of a writer mixing storytelling ingredients

While biographies are often highly informative, they do not have to be dry and purely expository in nature . You can play with storytelling elements to make it an engaging read.

You could do that by thoroughly detailing the setting of the story , depicting the people involved in the story as fully-fledged characters , or using rising action and building to a climax when describing a particularly significant milestone of the subject’s life.

One common way to make a biography interesting to read is starting on a strong foot…

Hook the reader from the start

Just because you're honoring your character's whole life doesn't mean you have to begin when they said their first word. Starting from the middle or end of their life can be more captivating as it introduces conflicts and stakes that shaped their journey.

When he wrote about Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild , author Jon Krakauer didn’t open his subject’s childhood and abusive family environment. Instead, the book begins with McCandless hitchhiking his way into the wilderness, and subsequently being discovered dead in an abandoned bus. By starting in the middle of the action in medias res, Krakauer hooks the reader’s interest, before tracing back the causes and motivations that led McCandless to die alone in that bus in the first place.

Chris McCandless self-portrait in front of the now iconic bus

You can bend the timeline to improve the reader’s reading experience throughout the rest of the story too…

Play with flashback

While biographies tend to follow a chronological narrative, you can use flashbacks to tell brief stories or anecdotes when appropriate. For example, if you were telling the story of footballer Lionel Messi, before the climax of winning the World Cup with Argentina, you could recall when he was just 13 years old, giving an interview to a local newspaper, expressing his lifelong dream of playing for the national team.

Used sparsely and intentionally, flashbacks can add more context to the story and keep the narrative interesting. Just like including dialogue does…

Reimagine conversations

Recreating conversations that your subject had with people around them is another effective way to color the story. Dialogue helps the reader imagine the story like a movie, providing a deeper sensory experience.

One thing is trying to articulate the root of Steve Jobs’ obsession with product design, another would be to quote his father , teaching him how to build a fence when he was young: “You've got to make the back of the fence just as good looking as the front of the fence. Even though nobody will see it, you will know. And that will show that you're dedicated to making something perfect.”

Unlike memoirs and autobiographies, in which the author tells the story from their personal viewpoint and enjoys greater freedom to recall conversations, biographies require a commitment to facts. So, when recreating dialogue, try to quote directly from reliable sources like personal diaries, emails, and text messages. You could also use your interview scripts as an alternative to dialogue. As Tom Bromley suggests, “If you talk with a good amount of people, you can try to tell the story from their perspective, interweaving different segments and quoting the interviewees directly.”

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These are just some of the story elements you can use to make your biography more compelling. Once you’ve finished your manuscript, it’s a good idea to ask for feedback.

If you’re going to publish your own biography, you’ll have to polish it to professional standards. After leaving your work to rest for a while, look at it with fresh eyes and edit your own manuscript eliminating passive voice, filler words, and redundant adverbs.

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Then, have a professional editor give you a general assessment. They’ll look at the structure and shape of your manuscript and tell you which parts need to be expanded on or cut. As someone who edited and commissioned several biographies, Tom Bromley points out that a professional “will look at the sources used and assess whether they back up the points made, or if more are needed. They would also look for context, and whether or not more background information is needed for the reader to understand the story fully. And they might check your facts, too.”

In addition to structural editing, you may want to have someone copy-edit and proofread your work.

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Importantly, make sure to include a bibliography with a list of all the interviews, documents, and sources used in the writing process. You’ll have to compile it according to a manual of style, but you can easily create one by using tools like EasyBib . Once the text is nicely polished and typeset in your writing applications , you can prepare for the publication process.

In conclusion, by mixing storytelling elements with diligent research, you’ll be able to breathe life into a powerful biography that immerses readers in another individual’s life experience. Whether that’ll spark inspiration or controversy, remember you could have an important role in shaping their legacy 一 and that’s something not to take lightly.

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Spanish film star's son gets life sentence for killing and dismembering plastic surgeon in Thailand

August 29, 2024 / 3:16 AM EDT / CBS/AFP

A Thai court jailed a famous Spanish actor's son for life on Thursday for the grisly murder of a Colombian plastic surgeon on a tropical holiday island in a case that has gripped Spain.

Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a 30-year-old chef with a YouTube channel , was found guilty of the premeditated murder of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga on the tourist island of Koh Phangan last August.

Daniel Sancho, the son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre assists Thai police with investigations after he was arrested on charges of murder

The case has generated enormous interest in Spain because the defendant's father, Rodolfo Sancho, is a well-known actor, and scores of Spanish reporters flew in for the trial.

Sancho's mother, Silvia Bronchalo, has also been in acting and both parents were at the sentencing, The Associated Press reported, adding that both are 49.

Bussakorn Kaewleeled, a lawyer for the victim's family, said the family members were happy with the outcome.

"The plaintiff is satisfied with the sentence because he will be put in prison for life and they receive some financial compensation," Bussakorn told reporters outside the court on the island of Koh Samui.

"The verdict has been delivered, both sides have the right to appeal according to Thai law," Bussakorn added.

When asked about Sancho's reaction, she said: "He is sad, but we can't forget the loss of the dead one."

The court at first sentenced Sancho to death but commuted that to life imprisonment due to his cooperation during the trial, the AP reported, citing Police Col. Paisan Sangthep, deputy commander of the Surat Thani Provincial Police, who attended the hearing.

Lurid details of Arrieta's death

Sancho claimed he killed Arrieta, 44, in self-defense and admitted hiding the body but denied destroying the Colombian's passport.

The trial had testimony that Sancho chopped up Arrieta's body and put the parts in plastic bags before distributing them around Koh Phangan.

Sancho led police to seven sites where he allegedly disposed of the victim's dismembered body in plastic bags, CBS News partner network BBC News reported .

While Thailand still has the death penalty for some crimes, including premeditated murder, it rarely carries out executions -- the last being in 2018.

Arrieta's family said before the verdict that they favored a sentence of life imprisonment.

"Let him be left in Thailand so he can take time, all the time that God gives him to live, to think about what he did," Darling Arrieta, the victim's sister, said in an HBO documentary about the case.

"He not only dismembered my brother, he dismembered a family."

Disputed versions of events

Sancho and Arrieta agreed to meet in person after getting to know each other online.

Sancho's father said in the same HBO documentary that Arrieta had threatened his son, and then "there was a fight, and in this fight, there was an accident."

The defense argued that Sancho acted in legitimate self-defense after Arrieta tried to force him to have sex.

"He tried to rape me, and we fought," Sancho said in a statement quoted by the Spanish daily El Mundo.

Sancho testified that Arrieta fell as they fought and hit his head on a bathtub, lost consciousness and died, the AP reported.

Another lawyer for the victim's family, Juan Gonzalo Ospina, said in a recent interview with El Mundo that Sancho was living a "false reality."

Ospina said it was proven at the trial in April that Sancho had bought knives, plastic bags and cleaning supplies before the crime and kept them in the room where the killing took place.

According to IMDB , Rodolfo Sancho has dozens of film and TV credits to his name and starred in "El Ministerio del Tiempo" ("The Ministry of Time").

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Thai Court Sentences YouTube Chef, Who Is the Son of Spanish Actors, to Life in Prison for Murder

BANGKOK — A court in Thailand on Thursday found Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a famous Spanish acting family, guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison, in a lurid case that involved the victim being dismembered.

The Koh Samui Provincial Court issued an initial sentence of death for Sancho but commuted it to life imprisonment due to his cooperation during the trial, said Police Col. Paisan Sangthep, deputy commander of the Surat Thani Provincial Police, who attended the hearing.

Sancho, a 30-year-old chef with a YouTube channel, had been charged with the murder of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, a 44-year-old plastic surgeon from Colombia, when both were vacationing on the Thai holiday island of Koh Pha-ngan in August last year.

The island is famous for its monthly “Full Moon” beach parties, attracting travelers from around the world for all-night raves.

The convicted man is the son of Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre, a prominent Spanish actor, and Silvia Bronchalo, who has also been in acting. Both parents are 49 years old and attended Thursday's court session.

The court also ordered Sancho to pay more than 4.2 million baht ($125,000) in compensation to the victim's family. Lawyers representing the family at the trial had asked for 30 million baht ($882,000), Spain’s EFE news agency reported.

EFE also quoted Sancho's father Rodolfo telling media after the verdict that he intended “to always keep fighting, to keep fighting."

At his trial on the island of Samui, Daniel Sancho had claimed he got into a fight with Arrieta for allegedly trying to sexually assault him. He said that Arrieta fell as they scuffled and hit his head on a bathtub, losing consciousness and then dying.

He had pleaded not guilty to charges of premeditated murder.

Sancho acknowledged dismembering the victim’s body and disposing of the parts on land and at sea. For the charge of concealing or damaging a body, he received a four-month prison sentence, reduced to two months for acknowledging the act, said Paisan.

He had also pleaded not guilty to the charge of destroying another person's documents — the victim’s passport — for which he received a two-year prison term.

The elements of the case — violent death on a holiday island, the celebrity connections and the lurid details — attracted huge coverage in Spanish media. HBO produced a Spanish-language documentary on the events.

The case came to light when trash collectors found what the Bangkok Post newspaper described as a sawed-off pelvis and intestines weighing about 5 kilograms (11 pounds) in a fertilizer sack at a garbage dump.

Shortly after that, Sancho reported to police that Arrieta was missing, and police then gathered evidence linking the two men that led them to detain and interrogate him.

Police established a narrative, claiming to the press that Sancho had confessed to the murder and saying he had planned it because Arrieta threatened to disgrace him and his family by revealing their alleged sexual relationship.

Sancho, through his father and his lawyers, said that was a distorted version of what he told police, and denied having a sexual relationship with Arrieta.

Police obtained surveillance video showing Sancho allegedly purchasing a knife, rubber gloves, garbage bags and cleaning solutions at a convenience store before Arrieta's death, which prosecutors claimed bolstered the charge of premeditated murder.

In his closing statement earlier in his trial, Sancho told the court he regretted his actions, the Spanish newspaper El País reported.

“I am sorry that a life has been lost and that parents have lost a son,” Sancho said. “I am sorry that his family was not able to bury him properly. I’m sorry for what I did after the death.”

Under certain conditions, Sancho can apply to be repatriated to serve the remainder of his prison term back home after several years of incarceration in Thailand, according to a treaty between Thailand and Spain.

The handful of Spanish nationals in Thai prisons includes another man convicted of premeditated murder and dismembering his victim.

Artur Segarra Princep was convicted of the 2016 killing of fellow Spaniard David Bernat. Police suspected that Segarra robbed the victim, whom he was said to have known. The body was kept in a freezer in Segarra’s Bangkok apartment until parts were tossed into Thailand's Chao Phraya River.

His 2017 death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2020 by Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

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