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From the school library, he read "biography, autobiography.
After all, the fundamental reason we write (and read) biography is that its subject produced work of great magnitude.
I seldom read biography for fun, and when I do it's in a strange way: first the childhood, usually until the subject falls in love, and then the death.
Holroyd says we read biography to find out what happens in the past, but only a skilled biographer can make us want to know, and only a skilled reader can make us want to listen.
Robert Blake wrote a much read biography in the nineteen-sixties, and now Christopher Hibbert, the veteran English popular historian, has published a new life, "Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister" (Palgrave; $29.95), joined, in Britain, anyway, by William Kuhn's "The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli" (Free Press; £20).
This is one box that read "Biography".
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I read biographies and watched old interviews.
Did you read biographies in your childhood?
I read Jackie Collins, I read biographies, philosophy.
He bought — but failed to read — biographies, histories, pop science.
She read biographies of Ronald Reagan and the Bushes.
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