When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.

The rest of Aeneas's biography is gleaned from Livy: Aeneas was victorious but Latinus died in the war.

Written as it was during Queen Ena's lifetime, this book necessarily omits the King's extramarital affairs ; but it remains a useful biography, not least because the author knew Alfonso quite well, interviewed him at considerable length, and relates him to the Spanish culture of his time.

According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: " age and experience ".

His version of Columbus ' life, published in 1829, was more a romance than a biography.

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.

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.

Adam Kirsch, in his biography of Disraeli, states that his Jewishness was " both the greatest obstacle to his ambition and its greatest engine.

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.

Nothing is known of the biography of the author of the book of Malachi although it has been suggested that he may have been Levitical ( which is curious, considering that Ezra was a priest.

* 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 >

Scramuzza, in his biography, suggests that Silius may have convinced Messalina that Claudius was doomed, and the union was her only hope of retaining rank and protecting her children.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

It is the church's de facto " official biography " of Eddy, though it was not published by the church.

Charlotte's friendship with fellow writer Elizabeth Gaskell, whilst not necessarily close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote Charlotte's biography after her death in 1855.

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.

In other words, by the simple fact that he was regarded as a hero, de Gozon was identified with a category, an archetype, which equipped him with a mythical biography from which it was impossible to omit combat with a reptilian monster.

Renan's 1862 biography of Jesus had denied his divinity, and he had written the " Prayer on the Acropolis " addressed to the goddess Athena.

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

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

*, well written popular biography

Another early written account is attributed to escaped convict William Buckley in his 1852 biography of thirty years living with the Wathaurong people.

Normally, a guild or organization to promote the cause of the candidate's sainthood is created, an exhaustive search of the candidate's writings, speeches and sermons is undertaken, a detailed biography is written and eyewitness accounts are gathered.

Also shown is the biography of Candler written by his son, Charles Howard Candler.

One of the most detailed reports of military activity under the Flavian dynasty was written by Tacitus, whose biography of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola largely concerns the conquest of Britain between 77 and 84.

Tacitus ' major historical works, including The Histories and Agricola's biography, were all written and published under Domitian's successors Nerva ( 96 – 98 ) and Trajan ( 98 – 117 ).

* 1914 – Alan Bullock, British author of the first biography of Hitler written in any language.

Casual mention of the term is also found in the biography Frederick Engels, by Karl Kautsky, written in the same year.

Thompson's first major work was his biography of William Morris, written while he was a member of the Communist Party.

The most famous of Einhard's works is his biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, " The Life of Charlemagne " ( c. 817 – 836 ), which provides much direct information about Charlemagne's life and character, written sometime between 817 and 830.

" The biography of Labour MP Tom Driberg, written by Francis Wheen, claims that — like Driberg — Mountbatten had " a sexual preference for men ".

" The news reached readers of The New York Times the next day ; Victor K. McElheny, in researching his biography, " Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution ", found a clipping of a six-paragraph New York Times article written from London and dated 16 May 1953 with the headline " Form of ` Life Unit ' in Cell Is Scanned.

Orwell's will requested that no biography of him be written, and his wife Sonia Brownell repelled every attempt by those who tried to persuade her to let them write about him.

In 1976, Powers ' biography ( written with Curt Gentry ) became a television movie, Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident.

This was not helped by the biography written by her husband after her death, which portrayed a wonderful, almost saintly, woman totally at odds with the scandalous life people knew she had led.

* The first full-length biography was Lovecraft: a Biography ( ISBN 0-345-25115-6 ), written by L. Sprague de Camp ; published in 1975, it is now out of print.

* A newer, more extensive biography is H. P. Lovecraft: A Life ( ISBN 0-940884-88-7 ) written by Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi.

Humayun was portrayed in the biography Humāyūn-nāma written by his sister Gulbadan Begum, as being extraordinarily lenient, constantly forgiving acts which were deliberately aimed at angering him.

His biography was written several times by Valerie Rosenberg.

* John Brown ( biography ), a 1909 biography written by W. E. B Du Bois about the abolitionist John Brown