Sentence examples for biographical footnotes from inspiring English sources

In that context the brief biographical footnotes of the cultural figures who Roth mentions or writes to, provided by the book's translator and editor, Michael Hofmann, who has also translated several of Roth's novels, are unrelievedly poignant.

More commonly, though, she reaches further back into the historical archive for inspiration, breathing imaginative life into biographical footnotes – a 19th-century American murder in Frog Music, a scandalous Victorian British divorce in The Sealed Letter – to create novels and short stories that are refreshingly revisionist about class, gender and sexuality.

Footnotes explain passing references to historical events, to now obscure contemporaries or to the daily news agenda of the 1920s – thus Hitler's rants against the revolutionaries of 1918-1919, for example, are contextualised with short biographical footnotes on Kurt Eisner, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

Later in 1965, when AJP Taylor published his Oxford history of England 1914-45, the biographical footnote on Churchill ended with the potent words: "The saviour of his country".

She also shares a biographical footnote with Souter: they both were appointed by George H. W. Bush -- Sotomayor to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1992.

Other footnotes provide biographical information about a person mentioned in the letter, or describe an event mentioned in it; still others direct readers to recent scholarship about persons, events, places, or biological groups.

The handsome book is footnoted with biographical detail and decorated with photographs.

If you turn to the index and pick out your favourite Murdoch novels, you'll find most of the entries point you to footnotes, or the excellent biographical summaries with which the editors, Avril Horner and Anne Rowe, preface each chapter.

The stories are constructed like unusually artful passages from history books, or excerpts from biographical dictionaries, the text busy with footnotes and qualifiers: "some sources attest"; "despite the meagre data covering his earliest years"; "testimony about him is contradictory".

The book, which doesn't credit a co-writer, is essentially a collection of lyrics, liberally footnoted and accompanied by biographical anecdotes and observations.

"The Habit of Art" keeps its distance from the clichés of biographical portraiture by presenting them with deflecting and deflating footnotes.