Biographer David Buckley writes, " The essence of Bowie's contribution to popular music can be found in his outstanding ability to analyse and select ideas from outside the mainstream — from art, literature, theatre and film — and to bring them inside, so that the currency of pop is constantly being changed.

Biographer David Meyer characterized Coon Dog and Avis as loving parents: he writes in Twenty Thousand Roads that they are " remembered as affectionate parents and a loving couple ".

Biographer Lawrence Sutin quotes private diaries that fit this story, and writes that " if ever Crowley uttered the truth of his relation to the Book ," his public account accurately describes what he remembered on this point.

Biographer Jack Zipes writes that the brothers were happy and " clearly fond of country life ".

Biographer James Curtis writes: " Tracy was scarcely a blip on the box office barometer in 1935, a critics ' darling and little more ".

Biographer Mikhail Zetlin writes, " It is hard to say, nowadays, whether Balakirev's suspicions were fully justified or whether they were partly due to his own high-strung disposition.

Biographer Robert M. Utley writes that the nickname arose because of McCarty's slight build and beardless countenance, his young years, and his appealing personality.

Biographer Bob Thomas writes that after three years at the studio, Thalberg continually proved his value.

Biographer Patrick McGilligan writes that " Hitchcock rarely managed to pull together a dream cast for any of his 1940s films, but Notorious was a glorious exception.

Biographer Z. James Varanini writes, " the completion of these pipelines represented a move towards a new type of interconnectivity of previously isolated states.

Biographer Susan Baker writes that Hofstadter, " was profoundly influenced by the political Left of the 1930's .... The philosophical impact of Marxism was so intense and direct during Hofstadter's formative years that it formed a major part of his identity crisis ....

Biographer Stephen Henderson writes that the war had made him " more serious and less self-confident ", but " struck by the willingness of so many to march to horrible deaths in the name of an abstract principle ".

Biographer John Hawkins writes she eventually helped her husband win election in a Halifax riding with a significant Irish Catholic population.

Biographer James M. Hutchisson writes that the plot both " soars to new heights of fictional ingenuity and descends to new lows of silliness and absurdity ".

Biographer Frank MacShane writes " The excessiveness of Julian's suicide is what makes Appointment in Samarra so much a part of its time.

Biographer Anne Edwards writes about the tone and tenor of Temple films under Zanuck, " This was mid-Depression, and schemes proliferated for the care of the needy and the regeneration of the fallen.

Biographer Richard Hough writes that " even from their infancy, it was plainly evident that the elder son took after his father, in character and appearance, while Albert strongly resembled his mother in most respects ".

Biographer Michael Reynolds writes that the piece, " ran for twenty magazine pages spread out over two issues ", with the first issue bearing a publication date of 26 January.

Biographer Leon Edel was the first to call attention to the importance of the " theatrical years " 1890 – 1895 for James's later work.

Biographer John Schutz speculates that the underlying reason for Pownall's request were related to frustration with his exclusion from the major military actions of the later war years, and possibly his desire to acquire a more significant post, such as a governor-generalship of conquered New France.

Biographer Carolly Erickson wrote, “ In choosing her lovers Rose followed her head first, then her heart ”, meaning that she was adept in terms of identifying the men who were most capable of fulfilling her financial and social needs.

Biographer Roland Flamini notes that the film was Universal's most expensive " jewel " ever in production, and its director and star, Erich von Stroheim, was taking the film way over budget.

Biographer Iain Murray observes of Pink, " the widespread circulation of his writings after his death made him one of the most influential evangelical authors in the second half of the twentieth century.

Biographer Clinton Heylin described the song as " the most extraordinary performance of the sessions, as demonically driven as anything Robert Johnson put out in his name.

Biographer Paul Paschal questioned why a modest man who lived simply and donated most of his income would request such an expensive and ornate decoration.

" Biographer Noel Gerson calls the characters in La Cousine Bette " among the most memorable Balzac ever sketched ".

Biographer Jeffrey Meyers called it Poe's " most turgid and opaque poem ".

Biographer Andrew Morton noted that most of Madonna's admirers were females, who were born-and-brought-up with an image of old-fashioned stereotypes of women as virginal brides, or as whores, or with feminist values that rejected the use of a woman's looks for her self-advancement.

Biographer John Collis calls this album, " one of the most impressive of all attempts to squeeze the stage excitement of a rock performer on to vinyl.

Biographer William Kaplan describes Rand as " an intolerant bigot " who disliked French Canadians, Catholics, Jews and Canadians who weren't of British stock.

Biographer Blanche Weisen Cook suggests that this period served as " the political education of General Eisenhower ", as he had to prioritize wide-ranging educational, administrative, and financial demands for the university.

Biographer Joseph McBride argues that Capra's disillusionment was more related to the negative effect that the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ) had on the film industry in general.

Biographer Daniel Jaffé argued that Prokofiev, " having forced himself to compose a cheerful evocation of the nirvana Stalin wanted everyone to believe he had created " ( i. e. in Zdravitsa ) then subsequently, in these three sonatas, " expressed his true feelings ".

" Biographer Robert V. Remini said that Jefferson " had no great love for Jackson.

Biographer S. R. Shutt speculates that it was either inspired by Elliott Avenue, a street that Smith had lived on in Portland, or that it was suggested by his then-girlfriend.

Biographer Charles Higham records that the sisters have always had an uneasy relationship, starting in early childhood when de Havilland would rip up the clothes Fontaine had to wear as hand-me-downs, forcing Fontaine to sew them back together.

" Biographer Anne de Courcy confirms: " The Nuremberg rally had a profound effect on both Diana and Unity ...

Biographer Ann Rule described him as " a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after.

Biographer Marc Eliot wrote that McQueen had an affair with his Bullitt co-star Jacqueline Bisset, although Bisset has not confirmed this.

Biographer Lewin Bowring describes him as " a man of the loosest morals, never spared anyone of the sex who had the misfortune to attract his attention.

Biographer Charles Higham records that the sisters have always had an uneasy relationship, starting in early childhood, when de Havilland would rip up the clothes that Fontaine had to wear as hand-me-downs.

Biographer of J. Edgar Hoover, Curt Gentry, says that Hoover's files had " numerous allegations that Spellman was a very active homosexual ".

Biographer Mary Lou Lustig notes that he was " an accomplished statesman, a brave soldier, a polished courtier, and a devoted servant ", but that his style was often " autocratic, arbitrary, and dictatorial ", that he lacked tact, and that he had difficulty reaching compromises.

Biographer Karen Holliday Tanner found that Holliday had been arrested 17 times before his 1881 shootout in Tombstone.

Biographer Slack, however, reports this not to have been the case ; Green had in fact suffered a series of strokes since April 17 of that year ( the date of the argument with an intemperate cook in the employ of her lifelong friend Annie Leary ).

( Biographer Stephen Borelli notes Allen added the middle name Avrom, to honor a grandfather of his with that name who had died.

Biographer Stephen Henderson points out that the " ministers were fresh, motivated and knowledgeable about their portfolios ", although Macdonald himself had no experience in finance.

Biographer Maynard Solomon attributes the arrangement to Leopold's wish to revive his skills in training a musical genius, as he had done with Wolfgang.

Biographer and critic Alexander Skabichevsky, having found similarities in the development of Pisemsky and Saltykov-Schedrin, another author who examined the provincial bureaucracy in the times of " total corruption, embezzlement, no laws for landowners, wild atrocities, and a total lack of real state power "; times when " provincial life was mostly uncultured and lacked even basic morality ", and " the life of the intelligent classes had the character of one wanton, never ending orgy ", concluded: " Both writers lost all motivation not just for the idealization of Russian life, but also of highlighting its lighter, positive sides ".

Biographer Harry M. Ward noted that Harrison's commission was unconstitutional both because he was not a citizen of the state and because the state militia's allotment of major generals had already been filled.