He attended Calwell's obsequies, but ( according to his biographer Allan W. Martin ) became so overwhelmed by grief after arriving at the cathedral that he was actually unable to compose himself and leave his car.

Allan Ellenberger, Novarro's biographer, writes:

Years after his death, his widow Phyllis Fraser admitted to Kilgallen biographer Lee Israel that a writer named Allan Ullman actually had written it with Richard Kollmar's approval.

His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind only Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler.

His biographer explains the Nevins style:

His contemporary biographer Asser wrote that many nobles baulked at the new demands placed upon them even though they were for " the common needs of the kingdom ".

As one biographer wrote, " found himself almost the only figure on his side capable of putting up the oratorical display essential for a parliamentary leader.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, and all but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend, assistant, and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson.

Constantine FitzGibbon, Thomas ' first in-depth biographer, wrote " No major English poet has ever been as Welsh as Dylan ".

As Whale biographer James Curtis wrote, the play " managed to coalesce, at the right time and in the right manner, the impressions of a whole generation of men who were in the war and who had found it impossible, through words or deeds, to adequately express to their friends and families what the trenches had been like ".

Baldassare Castiglione, author of Il Cortegiano (" The Courtier "), wrote in 1528: "... Another of the greatest painters in this world looks down on this art in which he is unequalled ..." while the biographer known as " Anonimo Gaddiano " wrote, c. 1540: " His genius was so rare and universal that it can be said that nature worked a miracle on his behalf ...".

He was quiet and self-effacing, remarkably polite and obliging — a product, biographer Alan Clayson wrote, of his Southern upbringing.

Although Jefferson wrote that Congress had " mangled " his draft version, the Declaration that was finally produced, according to his biographer John Ferling, was " the majestic document that inspired both contemporaries and posterity.

As his early biographer Niemetschek wrote, " there was nothing special about physique.

Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer and very close personal friend Joseph Lash wrote " The anti-Roosevelt underground campaign in 1940 was venomous, and ( Democratic National Chairman ) Flynn accused the Republicans of conducting the ' most vicious, most shameful campaign since the time of Lincoln.

In a poem he wrote of men joining the army like " bridegrooms going to meet their brides ", but his biographer points out that it is unlikely that other men shared his joy.

Bryan biographer Paulo E. Coletta wrote, " during this year 1894 – June 1895 of calamities, disintegration and revolution, each crisis aided Bryan because it caused division within his party and permitted him to contest for its mastery as it slipped from Cleveland's fingers.

Blur biographer Stuart Maconie later wrote that, at the time, " Blur were sewn together very awkwardly ".

" An unusual manner of painting, all his own, surpassing almost everyone ," wrote his first biographer, Schrevelius, in the 17th century on Hals ' painting methods.

A later biographer wrote of her " Though Wallis's jaw was too heavy for her to be counted beautiful, her fine violet-blue eyes and petite figure, quick wits, vitality, and capacity for total concentration on her interlocutor ensured that she had many admirers.

According to statements from Joe's brother Tom to biographer Maury Allen, Rosalia's father wrote to her with the advice that Giuseppe could earn a better living in California than in their native Isola delle Femmine, an Italian town in North-Western Sicily, administratively part of the province of Palermo.

Lee's biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman, wrote: " The seeds of much of the disaster at Gettysburg were sown in that instant — when Lee yielded to Longstreet and Longstreet discovered that he would.

Raeder's biographer, Keith Bird wrote about Raeder's anti-Semitism: " Raeder's adoption of Nazi racial epithets, reflective of the assimilation of the tenets of National Socialism in the Wehrmacht, indicate his ongoing readiness to interpret and moderate Hitler's policies and ideology and assimilate them into his own Pan-German conservative world-view.

" She frequently used shorter, stabbing phrases, and her voice was harder, with a wider vibrato ", one biographer wrote.

Another famous biographer of Adalbert was St. Bruno of Querfurt who wrote his hagiography in 1001-1004.

Crane biographer John Berryman wrote that the story was published in at least 200 small city dailies and approximately 550 weekly papers.

An earlier biographer, André Martinet, wrote, " Jacques spent money without counting.

Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose, who helped edit Other Losses, wrote I quarrel with many of your interpretations, I am not arguing with the basic truth of your discovery and acknowledged that Bacque had made a " major historical discovery ", in the sense that very little attention had hitherto been paid to the treatment of German POWs in Allied hands.

By now he had broken his drug addiction ; biographer David Buckley writes that Isolar II was " Bowie's first tour for five years in which he had probably not anaesthetised himself with copious quantities of cocaine before taking the stage.

The children of Paganus Ruet ( argued by modern-day genealogist Lindsay Brook and followed by biographer Alison Weir as " probably christened as Gilles ") included Katherine, her sister Philippa, a son, Walter, and the eldest sister, Isabel ( also called Elizabeth ) de Roet ( Canoness of the convent of St. Waudru's, Mons, c. 1366 ).

According to an anonymous biographer of Aeschylus, the Athenians chose Simonides ahead of Aeschylus to be the author of an epigram honouring their war-dead at Marathon, which led the tragedian ( who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there ) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the story is probably based on the inventions of comic dramatists but it is likely that Simonides did in fact write some kind of commemorative verses for the Athenian victory at Marathon.

The biographer calls her a " low-born girl-friend ", but she is probably closer to Lucian's " woman of perfect beauty ", more beautiful than any of Phidias and Praxiteles ' statues.

However, this view is contradicted by David Douglas, a historian and biographer of William the Conqueror, who believes that Robert merely relayed Edward's decision, probably while Robert was on his way to Rome to receive his pallium.

Sidney Painter, a historian and biographer of John, said of de Gray that he was " probably the only man whom John trusted absolutely and without reservation for the whole period of their association ".

From his first performance, Garrick departed from the bombastic style that had been popular, choosing instead a more relaxed, naturalistic style that biographer Alan Kendall states " would probably seem quite normal to us today, but it was new and strange for his day.

Hutcheson's relations with the clergy of the Established Church, especially with King and with Hugh Boulter ( the archbishop of Armagh ) seem to have been cordial, and his biographer, speaking of " the inclination of his friends to serve him, the schemes proposed to him for obtaining promotion ," etc., probably refers to some offers of preferment, on condition of his accepting episcopal ordination.

Previn's schedule was extremely tight, and Morecambe and Wise were worried that he had very little time to rehearse, but the final result was described by their biographer as " probably their finest moment ".

His death, though painful and protracted, contained allusions to the deaths of Socrates and Cato, and was evidently presented by his biographer Arulenus Rusticus, and probably constructed by himself, as a model of a dignified, calm and humane end.

Richard Holmes believed the loan was never repaid, but Haig ’ s biographer Walter Reid believes the loan was probably repaid in 1909.

His remains have since been exhumed for study and examined by the physician Luis del Campo, also the king's biographer, who measured him at 2. 23 metres tall ( 7 ' 3 " feet ), probably the basis for his " strength " alias.

According to his biographer Ian Mortimer, Roger was probably sent as a boy away from home to be fostered in the household of his formidable uncle, Roger Mortimer de Chirk.

" Looking back over the years ," she told her biographer, " I've felt always that the experience of the SCM was the most important thing that happened to me, probably the most important aspect of my college life, more important than any of the courses that I took.

NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have said, " a listener strictly accustomed to David Bowie in his assorted ' 70s guises would probably find this debut album either shocking or else simply quaint ", while biographer David Buckley describes it as " the vinyl equivalent of the madwoman in the attic ".

Mozart's earliest biographer Niemetschek alleged that the opera was completed in just 18 days, and in such haste that the secco recitatives were supplied by another composer, probably Süssmayr, believed to have been Mozart's pupil.

Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari does not even mention Fiorenzo's name, though he probably refers to him when he says that Cristofano, Perugino's father, sent his son to be the shop drudge of a painter in Perugia, who was not particularly distinguished in his calling, but held the art in great veneration and highly honoured the men who excelled therein.

Hopkins's biographer Robert Bernard Martin asserts that Hopkins ’ s meeting with Dolben, " was, quite simply, the most momentous emotional event of undergraduate years, probably of his entire life ". Hopkins was completely taken with Dolben, who was nearly four years his junior, and his private journal for confessions the following year proves how absorbed he was in imperfectly suppressed erotic thoughts of him

Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ( 1620 – 1681 ) was an English biographer as well as probably the first translator into English of the complete text of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura during the years of the interregnum ( 1649-1660 ).

When he received a phone call from Bert Berns, owner of Bang Records, who had produced a number of recordings with Them, he flew to New York City and hastily signed a contract ( that biographer Clinton Heylin says probably still gives him sleepless nights.

The Kent captaincy became available at the end of the season, but Chapman was not appointed ; according to Chapman's biographer, David Lemmon, he was probably approached but was unable to dedicate the necessary time to the position.

According to Douglas Jardine's biographer, Christopher Douglas, " He hardly put a foot wrong during the tour and, even though he gave Australia their biggest hiding to date, he was and probably remains ... one of the most popular English captains to tour Australia.

But, according to Victor Spinei, the obvious prejudice of Louis I ’ s biographer inspires little evidence ; the formal recognition of vassalage probably occurred only under Laţcu, after Louis I became king of Poland in 1370.

Æthelred's biographer, Ryan Lavelle, also questions its extent, arguing that it could not have been carried out in the Danelaw, where the Danes would have been too strong, and that it was probably confined to frontier towns such as Oxford, and larger towns with small Danish communities, such as Bristol, Gloucester and London.