No authoritative biography was published in Melville's lifetime, and some of the papers he had left were apparently destroyed.

Sikov has pulled off the difficult trick of producing both an authoritative biography and a compulsive page turner.

Preston has produced an authoritative biography of Franco (Basic Books, 1994).

Bury was the author of the first truly authoritative biography of Saint Patrick (1905).

The book is the first authoritative biography of the Princess.

The result, in effect, is an authoritative and highly readable short biography.

An authoritative biography of the Cold Warrior and father of containment.

This is the most complete and authoritative biography on Johannes Kepler.

Together they form an authoritative biography of a vibrant and influential personality.

It begins with an authoritative if somewhat ponderous biography of the founder Ignatius Loyola.