Orwell's widow commissioned journalist Malcolm Muggeridge to write a biography of her husband in spite of his wishes that none be produced.

She commissioned Bernard Crick, a left-wing professor of politics at the University of London, to complete a biography and asked Orwell's friends to co-operate.

His heirs restricted access to his diaries and later an " authorized " biography by Juhani Suomi was commissioned, the author subsequently defending the interpretation of the history therein and denigrating most other interpretations.

For that purpose, so these same scholars believe, she commissioned Philostratus to write the biography, where Apollonius is exalted as a fearless sage with supernatural powers, even greater than Pythagoras.

After his death, his eldest son, also named William, commissioned a biography of his father to be written called L ' Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal.

Christine de Pisan's biography, commissioned by Philip the Bold in 1404, is a source of most of the intimate details of the king's life of which we are aware, but also provides a moral example for his successors.

She is said to have commissioned a verse biography of King Henry ; if she did, it is no longer extant.

The 6th Marquess of Salisbury commissioned Andrew Roberts to write Salisbury's authorised biography, which was published in 1999.

Immediately after his father's death, he commissioned the Icelander Sturla Þórðarson to write his father's saga, or biography.

Additionally, Owain I commissioned the Life of Gruffydd ap Cynan, the biography of his father in which Owain firmly asserted his primacy over other Welsh rulers by " absolute right through decent " from Rhodri the Great, according to Davies.

He edited Schleiermacher's letters and was also commissioned to write a biography.

One item, held in the Ransom collection, includes the manuscript for " One Smart Cookie " ( with Debbi Fields, 1987 ), a commissioned biography of the owner of the Mrs. Fields Cookies company.

As recounted in the biography that Brinkley had commissioned, he struck upon the idea of transplanting goat testicles into men when a patient came to him to ask if he could fix someone who was " sexually weak ".

Ewers was later commissioned by Adolf Hitler to write a biography of Wessel ( Einer von vielen ), which also was made into a movie.

According to Lake's biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal published in 1931, dime novelist Ned Buntline had five Buntline Specials commissioned.

In 1946, Sir James Dunn, the then owner of Algoma Steel, commissioned Sullivan to write Clergue's biography.

The first biography of Wellcome was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust in 1939, by A. W.

In 1910, Friedell was commissioned by publisher Samuel Fischer to write a biography of poet Peter Altenberg.

After completing the commissioned biography of Andrew Carnegie, Mr. Hendrick turned to writing " group biographies ".

There is an obvious gap in the later works published by Mr. Hendrick between 1940 and 1946 which is explained by his work on a biography on Andrew Mellon, which was commissioned by the Mellon family, but never published.

These notes came into the possession of the empress Julia Domna, and it was she who commissioned Philostratus to write a biography of Apollonius, the extant Life of Apollonius of Tyana.

Her court was filled with musicians and poets ; she commissioned a monk, possibly Thurgot, to write a biography of her mother, Saint Margaret.

He is the author of 2008's In Turkey I Am Beautiful: Between Chaos and Madness in a Strange Land, a memoir of his travels in Turkey, The Secret Life of the Gold Coast, " an energetic and searching book " and of an unpublished biography of Australian celebrity Rose Porteous which was commissioned by publishers Duffy and Snellgrove but suppressed on legal grounds.

According to his official U. S. Army biography, he was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry in June 1924, and began his Army service with the 26th Infantry Regiment, then stationed at Plattsburg Barracks in upstate New York.

* The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple -- a biography by Anne Hart

( The only critical edition of Ibn Sina's autobiography, supplemented with material from a biography by his student Abu ' Ubayd al-Juzjani.

According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

* James S. Easby-Smith The Songs of Alcaeus ( 1901 ) W. H. Lowdermilk and Co., Washington-digitalized by Google: biography, history of criticisms, history of editions / publications, translations of fragments, commentary etc.

According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, described this as " A wondrous fable.

There has only been one biography, written by Paul Allen, and this primarily covers his career in the theatre.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

* Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness & Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972, biography by Edward K. Kaplan ISBN 0-300-11540-7

The biography of Anthony's life by Athanasius of Alexandria helped to spread the concept of monasticism, particularly in Western Europe through Latin translations.

His biography was written by Saint Athanasius and titled Life of Saint Anthony the Great.

Translated to English by John Bester, the book was a biography of one of the last traditional Yakuza bosses in Japan.

Furthermore, John Murray believed that Disraeli had caricatured him and abused his confidence – an accusation denied at the time, and by the official biography, although subsequent biographers ( notably Blake ) have sided with Murray.

Benjamin Franklin ( 1966 ) 228 pp online edition, short biography by scholar

* Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790 Text of biography by Rev.

* Karl Benrath's German biography, translated into English by Helen Zimmern, with a preface by the Rev.

Luther's complaints against the book carried past the point of scholarly critique and may reflect Luther's antisemitism, which is disputed, such as in the biography of Luther by Derek Wilson, which points out that Luther's anger at the Jews was not at their race but at their theology.

In his biography of rock legend Elton John, Philip Norman recounted that by his early teens, John ( then known as Reg Dwight ) was wearing glasses " not because he needed them, but in homage to Buddy Holly.

Media reports immediately following his death indicated Haley displayed deranged and erratic behavior in his final weeks, although beyond a biography of Haley by John Swenson, released a year later, which described Haley painting the windows of his home black, there is little information extant about Haley's final days.

* A German-language biography was published soon after Haley's death, written by Peter Cornelsen and Harald D. Kain.

The latest biography of Khmelnytsky by Smoliy and Stepankov, however, challenges the 27 December date and suggests that it is more likely he was born on 9 November ( feast day of St Zenoby ,< ref >

* French translation by Edouard Chavannes of Sima Qian's biography of Confucius ( see pp. 283-435 ) in the Records of the Grand Historian

* Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery ; Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Trial ; and Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority comprise the three-volume biography of Eddy favored by Christian Scientists.