It stands as the definitive Carpenter biography.
Essential reading: Simon Callow's definitive Welles biography, published by Jonathan Cape.
But the definitive Mamet biography will above all need to give a full accounting of his voice.
He just wants more luxury suite revenue, more neighborhood land with which to complete the definitive Yankee village.
These have been published over the years in various collections, including, most recently, James Ellis's definitive Harvard University Press edition (1980).
This version was 5,000 words shorter than Crane's original; many strange and disfiguring cuts were not restored until the definitive Norton & Co edition of 1982.
As I grew older I realised that this wasn't the definitive Beatles sound I had imagined it to be – their songs hurdled genres and leapfrogged topics.
He translated prose by authors such as Camara Laye, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Theodor Storm and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as plays by, among others, Heinrich von Kleist, Schiller, Dürrenmatt and Ibsen (this last in the definitive Oxford Ibsen).
Much has been made about Wednesday night's being one of the historic, classic, definitive Yankee World Series games of all time.
That would be far higher than the probable toll in the most definitive United Nations report, issued in September 2005, on the legacy of Chernobyl.
In a long, exceedingly detailed, and often enthralling biography, "On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller" (Random House), the historian Richard Norton Smith has written what will probably stand as a definitive Life.
