William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.

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

Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) was said by Orson Welles to not be a biography of William Randolph Hearst, but a composite of many people from that era.

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

Bacon's personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, however, wrote in his biography of Bacon that his inter-marriage with Alice Barnham was one of " much conjugal love and respect ", mentioning a robe of honour that he gave to her, and which " she wore unto her dying day, being twenty years and more after his death ".

Another account appears in a biography by William Rawley, Bacon's personal secretary and chaplain:

After her death in July 1852 he married secondly Norah Creina Blanche, daughter of Sir William Napier, the historian of the Peninsular War, whose biography he edited.

* Carson, Christopher Kit Photograph of Kit Carson in a beaver hat and short biography by William H. Wroth New Mexico Office of the State Historian

The fourth important source of information is William of Saint-Parthus ' biography, which he wrote using the papal inquest mentioned above.

They say that this inferred profile of the author fits Oxford's biography better than the documented biography of William Shakespeare.

Oriental Jones: A biography of Sir William Jones, 1746-1794.

William Roper's biography of More was one of the first biographies in the English language.

The brief biography of Malory goes thus: Born on 6 December 1425 at Morton Court, Shropshire, he was the eldest son of Sir William Malory, representative of Parliament to Cambridgeshire.

King: William Lyon Mackenzie King, A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny ( Vancouver: Douglas & MacIntyre, 2011 ), detailed popular biography

William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1924-1932: The Lonely Heights ( 1963 ) standard biography, online edition.

William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1932-1939: the Prism of Unity ( 1976 ) standard biography online edition.

* William of Ockham biography at University of St Andrews, Scotland

* William S. Burroughs biography and science resources at The Franklin Institute's Case Files online exhibit

* Tim Powers, The Mystery That Is William Ashbless is an intriguing brief biography of the poet

* William Ewart Gladstone 1809 – 98 biography from the Liberal Democrat History Group

He published a biography of Joseph Chamberlain, which treated the split with William Gladstone over Irish Home Rule in 1886 as the pivotal point of his career, rather than the adoption of tariff reform, and contained the famous line: " All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs ".

* Nevil Shute Norway, Slide Rule ( William Heinemann, London, 1954 ) Norway's biography covers his time at Airspeed in great detail

* In the 1956 essay Hamlet oder Hekuba: der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel ( Hamlet or Hecuba: the Irruption of Time into the Play ), the German legal theorist Carl Schmitt suggests that elements of the Earl's biography, in particular his final days and last words, were incorporated into William Shakespeare's Hamlet at both the level of dialogue and the level of characterization.

In a review of William Carlos Williams ' biography, " Something Urgent I Have to Say to You ": The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams, by Herbert Leibowitz, book critic Christopher Benfey wrote of Williams's poetry, " Early and late, Williams held the conviction that poetry was in his friend Kenneth Burke's phrase, ' equipment for living, a necessary guide amid the bewilderments of life.

* Charles McCarry ( born 1930 ), author of more than ten novels and numerous works of non-fiction ; Author of Citizen Nader, first authoritative biography of Ralph Nader.

Allen's own fears about the film's reception are recounted in a biography of Allen by Eric Lax ( 2nd edition: ISBN 0-306-80985-0 ), where he quotes Ralph Rosenblum, the film's editor:

These included Ralph St John Ainslie, a music teacher and caricaturist ; E. P. Lemarchand, whose sister eventually married Arthur Fowler ; Bernard Tower, who went on to become headmaster at Lancing ; and George Coulton, who was to write the first biography of Fowler.

* A Ralph Baer biography

The University of Texas at Austin Press published a biography titled, Ralph W. Yarborough: The People's Senator, by Patrick L. Cox.

Edward Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's son, published Forbes biography in the September 1899 issue of " Atlantic " magazine.

Rapson is the author of two books: Troubled Waters ( an account of the Boundary Waters legislative battle ) and Ralph Rapson ( a biography of his father, the architect ).

* Fasanella's City ( biography of Primitive artist Ralph Fasanella )

The first full biography was that by Mary L. Pendered whose chief source, Martin ’ s friend Sergeant Ralph Thomas, wrote a diary-now lost-of their friendship.

* Ralph G. Neas biography at National Health Care Coalition

* People For the American Way: Ralph G. Neas biography

* " Ralph N. Elliott ," biography on Market Technicians Association website

The Gesta Tancredi is a biography of Tancred written in Latin by Ralph of Caen, a Norman who joined the First Crusade and served under Tancred and Bohemund.

She was equally at home with great and established figures including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose biography she fearlessly compiled.

On November 20, 1957, Ralph Edwards got Jack Pierce reunited with a smiling Boris Karloff on the celebrity biography program This is Your Life.

( Brief biography of NEFFA co-founder and influential caller Ralph Page.

Ursula Vaughan Williams, in what has become the definitive biography of her husband Ralph Vaughan Williams, writes of his philosophy in a more general sense:

In his biography of Ralph Lauren, the journalist Michael Gross quotes a New York merchant who recalled showing a vintage shirt to a Ralph Lauren buyer: " I showed this fellow underwear --- a three-button long-sleeve shirt by Johnstown Knitting Mills.

Lowell's life was first immortalized in a 1907 biography by Edward Waldo Emerson, son of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and more recently in a 2005 biography by Carol Bundy, a distant relative.