Linda Leavell's fine new biography, "Holding On Upside Down" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), is the first life of Moore to be done with the blessing of Moore's executors, who supplied, among other forms of support, a "cache of letters" about her father.
French's biography holds a clue: it, too, contains extremely unflattering details about Naipaul (his extramarital affairs, his habit of hiring prostitutes, his hot temper), but it was, as advertised, authorized by Naipaul, who made no changes to the final manuscript.
Life and Death is the third of Lawrence's books about the city's rhythms, joining the disco scene-redefining Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music, 1970-79, and the quasi-biography, Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92.
The biography shelves hold three terrific lives of the extraordinary long-distance runner Emil Zátopek.
If you're reading a respectable novel or an earnestly hefty historical biography, you hold it upright, in a proud right-angle to the ground.
For the moment, Mr Scarisbrick's biography still holds sway.
Together with a brilliant portrait of a complicated, elusive woman, Hermione Lee's biography also holds up a mirror to the 20th century, casting memorable light on the literary world in the age of ink and paper.
Beyond the poignancy of a long life that began during the great war and ended in the year 2000, this biography also holds up a cracked mirror to its century, though its subject might have disdained the idea.
Mr. Lash has no accounting credentials, according to the biography, but does hold a master's in business.
In their biography of Gerry Anderson, Simon Archer and Marcus Hearn hold the Skyship One Gravity Compensation Room, in which the Gravity Compensators are represented by rotating metal frames, in high regard.
