Study the biographies, writings and speeches of the world's greatest seducers: Erroll Flynn, Casanova, Lord Byron, Charles de Gaulle, Gabriele D'Annunzio, etc. Always get consent before engaging in any sexual activity.
"Heir to the Empire City" expands this storyline, looking at Roosevelt's biography and writings to demonstrate that Teddy was as much an urban sophisticate as he was a cowboy, and more of a New Yorker than a frontiersman.
The annotations are generally reliable, though the editors will find some help in explicating Beckett's momentary enthusiasm for Leibowitz's postwar performances of Schoenberg's wind quintet, a subject which rather defeats them, in the biographies and writings of Pierre Boulez.
Then I consulted the writings, biographies, and autobiographies of Upton Sinclair, Carey McWilliams, and Earl Warren.
All these portraits appeared in The New Yorker during the past decade, some in much shorter versions, but where New Yorker profiles once were based on lengthy interviews and fly-on-the-wall observation, Pierpont fills in hers with a mosaic of written sources -- biographies, letters, published writings.
Inspiration for growth may be found in novels, biographies, mythology, existential writings, nature, movies and art.
A huge biography that interprets the writings and the life through each other.
Inspired by Carroll's writings and biography, "Then She Fell" derives its fractured narratives, its doppelgängers and mirror images, from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass".
For dead role models we can still reach their philosophy through their writings and biographies.
The more Anne Stevenson fleshed out Plath's biography with quotations from her writings, the thinner, paradoxically, did her own narrative seem.
