Sentence examples for a quick biography from inspiring English sources
There could be a jack for religious symbolism, a jack for a quick biography of the artist, a jack for general history, another for technique.
"Ben Franklin's Curious Mind," now at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich, is all of the above and none of them, presenting not only few historical documents relating to the man and his celebrated life, but also little new scholarship or other educational material beyond a standard quick biography.
The quick biography of Mr. Shaw, who died on Tuesday, is that he was a longtime Democratic operative who worked for former Gov. Jim Florio and Senator Frank R. Lautenberg before diving into the notoriously shadowy world of Hudson County politics.
It also sets up a nice model for comparison, as neither brother followed the pattern of collecting that one might expect from a quick glance at their biographies.
A quick survey of a few biographies reveals some particularly winning noms de porn.
Working under the assumption that many of you have played BioShock, I point you in the direction of this week's issue of The New Yorker, which has a quick review of two Ayn Rand biographies (here and here) that may interest you.
A QUICK link to an interview I recorded with Andrew Marr of the BBC for The Economist late last week, about his new biography of Queen Elizabeth II.
