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A Prophet and a President: WHY BLACK BIOGRAPHY MATTERS.

Authors : LEWIS, DAVID LEVERING

Subjects: Life writing; Obama, Barack, 1961-; Du Bois, W. E. B., 1868-1963

Source: American Scholar. Autumn2021, Vol. 90 Issue 4, p30-39. 10p.

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The Bully in the Ballad: Was Mississippi John Hurt really the first person to sing the tragic tale of Louis Collins?

Authors : MCHENRY, ERIC

Subjects: Songs; Murder; Hurt, Mississippi John, 1892-1966

Source: American Scholar. Winter2023, Vol. 92 Issue 1, p3-6. 4p.

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The Autobiography of Biography.

Authors : LEVERING LEWIS, DAVID

Subjects: BIOGRAPHY writing; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); HISTORIOGRAPHY

Source: American Scholar. Summer2014, Vol. 83 Issue 3, p94-102. 9p. 4 Color Photographs.

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THE JAZZ SINGER: A new biography of an American legend.

Authors : Griffin, Farah Jasmine

Subjects: Jazz singers; Attitudes toward homosexuality; Charisma

Source: American Scholar. Spring2024, Vol. 93 Issue 2, p114-115. 2p.

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Freud and Literary Biography.

Authors : Ellmann, Richard

Subjects: FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); PSYCHOLOGY of literature

Source: American Scholar. Autumn84, Vol. 53 Issue 4, p465-478. 14p.

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Unauthorized, But Not Untrue: The real story of a biographer in a celebrity culture of public denials, media timidity, and legal threats.

Authors : Kelley, Kitty (AUTHOR)

Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); CELEBRITIES; PUBLISHING

Source: American Scholar. Winter2011, Vol. 80 Issue 1, p32-43. 12p. 1 Color Photograph, 2 Black and White Photographs.

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A Prophet Without Honor.

Authors : BEAM, ALEX

Subjects: Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844; Biography writing; Religious biography -- History & criticism

Source: American Scholar. Summer2014, Vol. 83 Issue 3, p71-78. 8p. 2 Black and White Photographs.

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The Lightness of Errol Flynn.

Authors : DOYLE, BRIAN

Subjects: Flynn, Errol, 1909-1959; Actors; ActingUnited States

Source: American Scholar. Winter2017, Vol. 86 Issue 1, p100-103. 4p.

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FRONTLINE ORACLE: A new biography of America's most beloved grunt reporter.

Authors : Samet, Elizabeth D.

Subjects: Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle & the Story of World War II, The (Book); Chrisinger, David; Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945

Source: American Scholar. Summer2023, Vol. 92 Issue 3, p115-117. 3p.

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Net Gains.

Authors : ROPER, ROBERT

Subjects: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977; Authors' travels; 20th century Russian authors

Source: American Scholar. Summer2015, Vol. 84 Issue 3, p77-83. 7p.

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