However, Sima Qian's biography of Zhuangzi pre-dates Guo Xiang ( Chinese: 郭象 ; pinyin: Guō Xiàng ; Wade – Giles: Kuo Hsiang ; d. 312 C. E.

For example, the information that Liu Bang ( later Emperor Gaozu of Han ), in a desperate attempt to escape in a chase from Xiang Yu's men, pushed his children off his carriage to lighten it, was not given in the emperor's biography, but in the biography of Xiang Yu.

Yet, another record from the biography of Xiang Lang stated that Xiang, as a close friend of Ma Su, assisted the latter in escaping by covering up Ma's jailbreak.

The biography of Xiang Yu was best recorded by Sima Qian in his Shiji, “ Records of the Grand Historian: Annals of Xiang Yu ”.

Halliday and Chang's new biography of Mao, " Mao: The Unknown Story ," contains a very different account of the New Fourth Army Incident in which they suggest Mao engineered the massacre in order to eliminate Xiang, whom he perceived as a rival.

Her biography was included in the Confucian classic Biographies of Exemplary Women ( Lienü Zhuan ), compiled by the Han dynasty scholar Liu Xiang.

Her biography was added to the Lienü zhuan ( Biographies of Exemplary Women ), which was first started by the Han dynasty scholar Liu Xiang.

* Brief biography of Cao Yu in Radio International China.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

This biography depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is synonymous with that of Athanasius as the biographer.

A detailed description of Domitian's appearance and character is provided by Suetonius, who devotes a substantial part of his biography to his personality.

Rabbi Yedidiah Tiah Weil ( 1721 – 1805 ), a Prague resident, who described the creation of golems, including those created by Rabbi Avigdor Kara of Prague, did not mention the Maharal, and Rabbi Meir Perels ' biography of the Maharal published in 1718 does not mention a golem.

Orwell's will requested that no biography of him be written, and his wife Sonia Brownell repelled every attempt by those who tried to persuade her to let them write about him.

Edmund Morris, in his biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, describes a young Roosevelt, newly elected to the State Assembly, walking into the House Chamber for the first time in this trendy, affected gait, somewhat to the amusement of the older and more rural Members who were present.

As Donald Creighton ( who penned a two-volume biography of Macdonald in the 1950s ) wrote, " law was a broad, well-trodden path to comfort, influence, even to power ".

Beyond The Sea was a lifelong dream project for Spacey, who took on co-writing, directing, co-producing and starring duties in the biography / musical about Darin's life, career, and relationship with actress Sandra Dee.

In Moon's biography, Full Moon, longtime friend and personal assistant Dougal Butler, observed: " He ( Moon ) would do anything if he knew that there were enough people around who didn't want him to do it.

In 1850 he married an American college teacher, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, who later wrote introductory books about natural history and, after his death, a lengthy biography of her husband.

The modern interpretation, following that of Louis Duchesne, who compiled the major scholarly edition, is that the Liber Pontificalis was gradually and unsystematically compiled, and that the authorship is impossible to determine, with a few exceptions ( e. g. the biography of Pope Stephen II ( 752 – 757 ) to papal " Primicerius " Christopher ; the biographies of Pope Nicholas I and Pope Adrian II ( 867 – 872 ) to Anastasius ).

Also in 1893 he married his distant cousin Marianne Schnitger, later a feminist activist and author in her own right, who was instrumental in collecting and publishing Weber's journal articles as books after his death and her biography of him is an important source for understanding Weber's life.

When historical events are involved in their biography, overt retcons may be used to accommodate this ; a character who served in the army during World War II might have his service record retconned to place him in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, etc.

In 2005 Graham Sharpe, who had known Sutch since the late 1960s, wrote the first biography, The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch.

The Age of Reason was largely ignored after 1820, except by radical groups in Britain and freethinkers in America, among them Robert G. Ingersoll and the abolitionist Moncure Daniel Conway, who edited his works and wrote the first biography of Paine, favorably reviewed by The New York Times.

" Episcopius was rebutted by Goodyear, who became a defender of Ames against the Remonstrants, and later provided Nethenus with material for his biography of Ames.

The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in Henry Sutherland Edwards ' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini, who died on a Friday 13th.

** Roy Richard Grinker, who also wrote the only biography of Turnbull

Eric Ives, a British historian and legal expert, advocates the 1501 date, while Retha Warnicke, an American scholar who has also written a biography of Anne, prefers 1507.

Father Corridan was extensively interviewed by Budd Schulberg, who wrote the foreword to a biography of Father Corridan, Waterfront Priest by Allen Raymond.

His will left bequests to Southey ( who would later write Telford ’ s biography ), the poet Thomas Campbell ( 1777 – 1844 ) and to the publishers of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia ( to which he had been a contributor ).

The Chambers biography relates that the legendary reason for Ní Mháille's seizure of Doona Castle in Ballycroy was because the MacMahons, who owned the castle, killed her lover, Hugh de Lacy, a young boy who was easily fifteen years younger than her, the shipwrecked son of a Wexford merchant Ní Mháille had rescued.

Morgan Llewellyn's book, in turn, takes from Anne Chambers ' biography, who was credited as consultant.

According to Eastwood's official biography, a man named Chuck Hill was instrumental in securing employment for Eastwood at Universal ; Hill, who had contacts in Hollywood, managed to sneak Eastwood into one of Universal's studios, where he showed him to cameraman Irving Glassberg.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

According to his biography, A Life Decoded, he was said to never be a terribly engaged student, having Cs and Ds on his eighth-grade report cards.

The two books generally considered most important to the Revival were Raymond Weaver's 1921 biography Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic and his 1924 edition of Melville's last great but never quite finished manuscript, Billy Budd, which Melville's granddaughter gave to Weaver when he visited her for research on the biography.

A recent biography of Heydrich also places the grave in Section A. Hitler wanted Heydrich to have a monumental tomb but, because of Germany's declining fortunes, it was never built.

Although Wittgenstein largely disregarded Aristotle ( Ray Monk's biography suggests that he never read Aristotle at all ) it seems that they shared some anti-Platonist views on the universal / particular issue regarding primary substances.

After the separation, the marriage was never referred to by the Bowdler family, and in the biography of Bowdler by his nephew, Thomas Bowdler, there is no mention of Bowdler's ever marrying.

According to the band's biography, the drug was prescribed to him as a teenager during his parents ' divorce but he was never withdrawn from the drug and became dependent on it.

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.

According to John Cottrell's biography of Laurence Olivier, however, Anthony Quinn was dismayed and angry when he read that Olivier was getting better reviews for his performance as Henry than Quinn had gotten, claiming that he would never have left the production if he had known that was going to happen.

" Buckley, in his Elgar biography of 1905, wrote, " The theme is a counterpoint on some well-known melody which is never heard ".

In her biography, Hill quotes Pugin as writing of what is probably his best known building: " I never worked so hard in my life for Mr Barry for tomorrow I render all the designs for finishing his bell tower & it is beautiful & I am the whole machinery of the clock.

In John Miller's biography of Dame Judi, With A Crack In Her Voice, she talked of being bewildered at how Harvey never actually looked at her during his speeches, and the book also quotes Joss Ackland as saying that Americans seemed to think Harvey was some sort of great actor, which his colleagues certainly did not.

" He also began to write a biography of the chemist Sir Robert Boyle, but his notes were lost and the work was never completed.

William M. Adler's 2011 biography reveals new information about Hill's ostensible alibi, which was never introduced at his trial.

Arthur Freeman maintained in a letter to Westall that ' we never presume JPC guilty until the evidence is sifted ', which, Westall remarks, ' hardly squares with the disparagement made in their ( the Freemans ') biography of those who ' high-mindedly ' suspend judgement, stating such an approach ' forfeits the opportunity to explain him at all '.

The use of the Pixo OS in the iPod was never formally announced, although the first-generation iPod's " About iPod " display includes a mention of Pixo, and a Connectix biography of their VP of engineering Mike Neil mentions his role as " lead architect on the Pixo OS that is used in ... the Apple iPod ".

And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone ..." According to Marcia Ann Gillespie and her colleagues, who wrote a biography about Angelou, it was during this period of silence when Angelou developed her extraordinary memory, her love for books and literature, and her ability to listen and observe the world around her.

( The censorship of the American edition, ironic in a book that deals in part with the terror of pervasive censorship unleashed on the people of Iran by the Shah's security agency, the SAVAK, has never been satisfactorily explained, and is not fully elucidated even in Domosławski's latest biography of Kapuściński ( see section " Controversial biography ", below ).

It was a belletristic biography that until mid-20th century was considered as a key source on Walewska, as Antoine d ' Ornano claimed that it was based on never published documents remaining in the archives of La Branchoire, the family castle.

A 2005 biography of Collins, And Then They Loved Him: Seward Collins & the Chimera of an American Fascism, argues that he was never a real " fascist.

In the biography, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina, historian Gerda Lerner writes that “ It never occurred to that she should abide by the superior judgment of her male relatives or that anyone might consider her inferior, simply for being a girl .” More so than her elder sister ( and later, fellow abolitionist ), Sarah, Angelina seemed to be naturally inquisitive and outspoken, a trait which often offended her rather traditional family and friends.

Among her social circle were Edmund Wilson, Berenice Abbott, and the Dadaist artist and poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, whose biography Barnes tried to write but never finished.