"... Arthur's genius lay in his ability to imagine songs, with fully formed lyrics and melodies ," wrote John Einarson in " Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love ," an authorized biography on Lee that was released in 2010.

It was announced in May of 2012 that the group was the subject of a fully authorized biography ( written by journalist Greg Prato ), called Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets, released on June 1st.

McVeigh stated in his authorized biography that he wanted to minimize nongovernmental casualties, so he ruled out a 40-story government building in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of the presence of a florist's shop on the ground floor.

Carter's authorized biography, " Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes ," by Dan Ouellette was published by ArtistShare in 2008.

According to his authorized biography, " his only sustaining relief from his unsatisfied sex drive was his even stronger desire to die.

His heirs restricted access to his diaries and later an " authorized " biography by Juhani Suomi was commissioned, the author subsequently defending the interpretation of the history therein and denigrating most other interpretations.

One admirer, Sarah Hopkins Bradford, wrote an authorized biography entitled Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman.

* Chico ( cat ), a cat who is the narrator of an authorized biography of Pope Benedict XVI

Shy by his own admission, Kelley was the only cast member of the original Star Trek series program never to have written or published an autobiography ; however, the authorized biography From Sawdust to Stardust ( 2005 ) was written posthumously by Terry Lee Rioux of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.

An authorized biography of the same name was also released by Cornerstone Press, written by Matthew T. Dickerson.

After numerous unauthorized biographies of each of the brothers were published, Hanson turned to their close friend, Jarrod Gollihare of Admiral Twin, to write their authorized biography.

* El Status es el Issue – biography written by Alberto Goachet and authorized by Rosselló.

The authorized biography of Farley, The Chris Farley Show, was written by his brother Tom, Jr. and Tanner Colby.

According to Luciano's authorized biography, during this time, Lansky helped arrange a deal with the U. S. Government via a high-ranking U. S. Navy official.

* 1984 – Mott, Michael, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton ( 1984 ), Harvest Books 1993: ISBN 0-15-680681-9, 710 p. authorized biography.

* February 21 – McGraw-Hill, Inc., outbids eight other publishers and pays $ 150, 000 for the U. S. rights to Hunter Davies ' authorized biography of the Beatles.

( There is no mention of Marie Juliette Louvet in the authorized biography of her grandson, Prince Rainier III, who is Monegasque by nationality but genealogically is French, Mexican-Spanish, Italian, German, Scottish and English.

Because Arbus's estate approved the exhibition and book, the chronology in the book is " effectively the first authorized biography of the photographer.

An authorized biography of Hunt, authored by former press secretary Gary Pearce, was released in the fall of 2010.

The resulting album, Voices, was written, produced and arranged by Daryl Hall & John Oates in one month, according to their authorized biography Dangerous Dances ( by Nick Tosches ), and was notable for having a clearer style and better sound than their previous releases.

Around this time she had a serious romance with David Niven, and according to his authorized biography, even wanted to marry him, but he wasn't faithful to her.

It has been rumored that on April 8, 1933, Wyman married Ernest Eugene Wyman ( or Weymann ) ( 1906 – 1970 ), a salesman ; the marriage was mentioned in Dutch, the authorized biography of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris, who says that the marriage certificate is on file with the State of California, with the bride giving her name as Jane Fulks, daughter of Richard D. and Emma Reise Fulks.

They included Clara Codd, future President of the Theosophical Society in America, clairvoyant Dora van Gelder, another future President of the Theosophical Society in America who during the 1970s also worked with Delores Krieger to develop the technique of Therapeutic touch, and Mary Lutyens, who would later write an authorized Krishnamurti biography.

Bill Bright's authorized biography is titled ' Amazing Faith ' by Michael Richardson with a foreword by Billy Graham.

In his authorized biography of Maurice Chevalier, author David Bret claims that Chevalier and Mistinguett were the ones who first " shopped " Trenet to the police for consorting with underage boys, around 1940.

During the abortive war with the Soprano crew over Tony's Frelinghuysen Avenue operation, he authorized Tony to arrange to have Carmine assassinated.

He had a sometimes contentious relationship with his Underboss, John " Johnny Sack " Sacramoni: during different episodes in the fourth season, Johnny and Carmine each authorized Tony Soprano to put a " hit " on the other, although in neither case was the killing actually carried out.

The suit further alleged that checks were signed by Tony III though he was not authorized to do so.

The first Commandant was Samuel Nicholas, who took office as a captain, though there was no office titled " Commandant " at the time, and the Second Continental Congress had authorized that the senior-most Marine could take a rank up to Colonel.

Although Mitchell refused to write a sequel to Gone with the Wind, Mitchell's estate authorized Alexandra Ripley to write a sequel, which was titled Scarlett.

A second sequel was authorized by Mitchell's estate titled Rhett Butler's People, by Donald McCaig.

In 2006, De La Hoya authorized a children's picture book titled Super Oscar published by Simon and Schuster and released in his name.

This edition, titled The Works of John Adams, Esq., Second President of the United States, was the only edition of John Adams's writings until the family donated the cache of Adams papers to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1954 and authorized the creation of the Adams Papers project ; the modern project had published accurate scholarly editions of John Adams's diary and autobiography, several volumes of Adams family correspondence, two volumes on the portraits of John and Abigail Adams and John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, and the early years of the diary of Charles Francis Adams.

On April 7, 2009, yet another release was made, this time a collection of all the cartoons released by Warner Home Video as the first authorized collection from the original masters, titled Max Fleischer's Superman: 1941-1942 with a suggested price at $ 26. 99 ; the set included one new special feature in the form of " The Man, The Myth, Superman " featurette, along with an old special feature seen in the Superman II 2006 DVD release entitled " First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series ".

In 1993 an authorized biography titled John Fitch: Racing Through Life, written by James Grinnell, was published.

In 2002 Williams released his controversial authorized biography, simply titled " Chester ", in which he claimed that he was shunned by some of his team mates in the 1995 Springbok squad and was called racist names by James Small, though he later clarified, " When we were together as a team, the team-spirit was good.

Still growing, ADV also launched the first all anime television channel, The Anime Network, and a publishing division that distributed the authorized English version of the popular Japanese magazine Newtype.

Still, the larceny charges at the heart of the case did not depend on whether the defendants took the money -- they did -- but whether they were authorized to take it.

* The Story of Little Black Sambo ( 1923 authorized American edition ) at Internet Archive

His authorized biography, You Are My Sunshine: The Jimmie Davis Story, was published in 1987.

Monica's Story is the authorized biography of Monica Lewinsky, written by Andrew Morton.