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 Crane reduces the missing period to eleven weeks, but is unable to clarify further.

It starred Derek Jacobi as the Biographer, Tom Ferguson as Knecht and David Seddon as Plinio.

* Hillary Biographer Crude Propagandist, David Martin, July 14, 2005.

Biographer Thomas McNamee has characterized the restaurant's history as bipolar, with triumphs alternating with disasters leading to more successes.

Biographer Christopher Sandford writes, " Over the years, most British rockers had tried, one way or another, to become black-by-extension.

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 Tad Mosel states, " To show her affection for her hometown, she always walked slowly when she left her hotel, turning her head to smile on everyone on the street, missing no one, so they could feel close to her and be able to say when they got home that night, ' Katharine Cornell smiled directly at me.

Biographer Bill Cooke, however, disputes the allegation, citing McCabe's opinion that " Catholics are no worse, and no better, than others ", and " I have not the least prejudice against the Catholic laity, which would be stupid.

Biographer Peede notes that his works are known “ for their incantatory passages, their fragmented brilliance, but not their seamless design .” Critics have tried to define his style with labels such as Southern, Southern Gothic, modernist, postmodernist, contemporary, and magical realist.

" Biographer Joseph Wood Krutch described the essay as " a rather highly ingenious exercise in the art of rationalization ".

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 Marc Eliot called Eastwood's role " an amalgam of the Man with No Name, Dirty Harry, and William Munny, here aged and cynical but willing and able to fight on whenever the need arose ".

Biographer Derek Watson characterizes the pieces for men's choir as being " of little concern to the non-German listener ".

Respected film critic Leslie Halliwell said " probably the best Fields vehicle there is " and W. C. Fields Biographer Robert Lewis Taylor called it " One of the great classics of American comedy ".

Biographer Joanna Woods has said that this work signalled a turning point for Mansfield, when she was able to display a " new objectivity that gives the story a universal dimension ".

Biographer Andrew Lycett calls him a " spendthrift playboy " who ( with his brother Denis ) " used the Conan Doyle estate as a milch-cow ".

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

Biographer Robert Gittings suggests " Ode on Indolence " was written on 4 May 1819, based upon Keats's report about the weather during the ode's creation ; Douglas Bush insists it was written after " Nightingale ", " Grecian Urn ", and " Melancholy ".

Biographer John Hawkins characterizes the Liberal party of 1933 as " a party of thinkers and reformers ".

Biographer Max Riddington, who was the writer of Frances: The Remarkable Story of Princess Diana's Mother, described Frances as a woman who was " certainly complicated " and also " funny, warm, intelligent " and " energetic ".

" Biographer Tom Roberts also believes Raymond's work on Rip Kirby " inspired all the soap opera style strips of the fifties and sixties ".

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

Biographer Graham Robb calls La Cousine Bette " the masterpiece of his premature old age ".

Biographer Paul Trynka has written that The Idiot " would remain an album that was more respected than loved, the reviews mostly neutral " but that it " prefigured the soul of post-punk ".

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

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 Lou Cannon would later describe the missive as " one of the few foreign policy documents composed by Reagan ... without the assistance of speechwriters or formal position papers from his various departments ".