Sentence examples for biographical figures from inspiring English sources

He adds: "I said in an interview about 12 years ago that writing about real biographical figures showed a sort of failure of the writer's imagination".

STEVE SMITH Life Lessons, From Uncle Walt All sorts of biographical figures have been having their say on New York stages this year: the Texas governor Ann Richards (in "Ann"), the Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos (in "Here Lies Love"), the Virgin Mary (in "The Testament of Mary").

Montaigne was the last of Zweig's biographical subjects, a figure whose life and work the writer turned to as his own life drew to its end.

He kept teaching after he retired in 1991 and also wrote biographical sketches of leading figures in the history of epidemiology.

Who will look after his memory?" Several of Glass's 24 operas have featured biographical accounts of historical figures, including Christopher Columbus, Albert Einstein and Galileo.

Biographical sketches of major figures are imposing: José Martí, a supporter of Cuban independence, came to the city in 1880 and worked as a journalist, while establishing New York's Spanish-American Literary Society and writing poetry.

Her biographical works on eminent figures in science and literature included Erasmus, Shakespeare and Robert Hooke – the lesser-known British scientist whom she termed "London's Leonardo" and whose life became the subject of two of her books – and the great architect Christopher Wren.

Cross-referenced, complete with bibliography and a biographical list of secondary figures, "Nazi Literature" is composed of a series of sketches, the compressed life stories of writers in North and South America who never existed, but all too easily could have.

Among the works created by Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, the most notable Puerto Rican playwright of the 19th century, were biographical plays about important figures of the era such as Cofresí and Ramón Power y Giralt.

Aubrey, who died in 1697 and is best known for his Brief Lives, clearly a model for Nicholl's own "biographical studies", is a figure Nicholl returns to repeatedly, in both his conversation and his writing.

Biographical information on leading Army figures was extremely scanty.