Sentence examples for over previous biographers from inspiring English sources

The author's expertise in military history gives him a large advantage over previous biographers.

It's also possible for biographers to find writings that previous biographers have missed.

Previous biographers have depicted Proust as a hopeless neurotic whose asthma was assuredly psychosomatic.

Dolnick thinks that Powell's previous biographers "vastly underestimate the dangers" that he confronted.

He said he had uncovered hundreds of letters that had not been seen by previous biographers.

Hendrickson faults previous biographers for their lack of compassion, and his own store of it is seemingly bottomless.

But unlike previous biographers, he takes a microscopic look at everything Gershwin wrote, or at least everything that survives.

Jean Edward Smith challenged that argument about Grant in a well-received biography published a decade ago: Grant had been a better president than contemporaries or previous biographers realized, Smith maintained.

Leo Damrosch, a Harvard academic and veteran of 18th-century scholarship, has returned to the often-sifted evidence, and is prepared to wrangle with previous biographers.

That is why it seemed necessary to me to lay out my evidence to avoid the pitfalls that have tripped up all his previous biographers.

While the story of McCullers's life is always interesting, Savigneau ultimately has little to add to the work of previous biographers.