In 1983, Estes' daughter Pam wrote a portrait of her father, Billie Sol: King of Texas Wheeler-Dealers.
In 1947 Fleming wrote a portrait of his adopted home in Horizon magazine, influential enough to fuel a postwar tourist boomlet among well-heeled Britons and Americans.
She's written a portrait of Powell that is as revealing as it can be and remain flattering, and as flattering as it can be and remain revealing.
Mr. Pierre-Pierre and his colleagues at The Times have written a portrait of one street in Port-au-Prince and its survivors, for example, and another article about the challenges faced by a team of doctors, including some Haitian-Americans, from New York.
Back in the sixth century AD, the Roman historian Procopius wrote a portrait of the empress Theodora that chronicled, in scabrous detail, her early life as an actress and whore: a career which had featured floor-shows so imaginative that classicists have generally preferred to follow the example of Gibbon, and leave the precise details "veiled in the obscurity of a learned language".
I learned that lesson when I wrote a portrait of my best friend from college days, a man I loved and admired although we were about as similar as Oscar and Felix.
(N. B.: During 1933, the year Tanizaki wrote A Portrait of Shunkin, he also published In Praise of Shadows, an essay on esthetics that stressed the powers of darkness in literature).
The gradual, in-depth understanding gained through their many hours of conversation allowed Marion to write a fascinating portrait of an artist shaped by his organic connection with St Ives.
While Mr. Himmelman uses material from Mr. Bradlee's old memos, letters, interviews and photos to write a "personal portrait" of the former Washington Post editor, the source of the Watergate conversation was an unpublished interview conducted in 1990 by Barbara Feinman, who was working with Mr. Bradlee on his memoir.
A correspondent for The New York Times who covered the White House from 2001 to 2006, Ms. Bumiller relied on 10 interviews with Ms. Rice and 150 with other people, including some unnamed former and current officials, to write a compelling portrait of the country's first black female secretary of state.
