From 1944 on he spent much of his time preparing his authoritative biography, The Life and Works of Sigmund Freud (1953 57).
In a loyal, scrupulous, and authoritative biography, "Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life" (Yale; $35; translated from the Russian by Jane Ann Miller, Brodskyy's old friend Lev Loseff puts a great deal of emphasis on his subject's decision to drop out of school, arguing that it prevented Brodsky from being ruined by overschooling.
Other sources of biographical information include Ronald Clark's authoritative The Life of Bertrand Russell (1975), Ray Monk's two volumes, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude (1996) and Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness (2000), and the first volume of Andrew Irvine's Bertrand Russell: Critical Assessments (1999).
With its intimate observations of life with the author's father, Yossarian Slept Here is an especially valuable book in that there exists no incontrovertibly authoritative biography of Joseph Heller.
Einstein's earth-shaking concept of general relativity is directly juxtaposed, in Walter Isaacson's confidently authoritative "Einstein: His Life and Universe," with a set of household rules that the great man wrote to keep his first wife at bay. "You will stop talking to me if I request it," this document asserted.
She's not hostile, as the late 60's/early 70's leftists often were, to the authoritative institutions of American life.
He has produced a series of authoritative books on marine life, ranging from sharks to whales to deep-sea ecosystems.
The authoritative painter of modern life Gerhard Richter is partnered with eminent composer Arvo Pärt for this year's Manchester International Festival.
On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.
They range from authoritative (Robert Dallek's "Unfinished Life") to tabloidlike (Seymour M. Hersh's "Dark Side of Camelot") to tawdry (Nellie Bly's "Kennedy Men").
