While this biography cites some of Mr. Addams's most ghoulish preoccupations, it never really grasps them and clings more easily to the banal.

A recent biography of Mr. Ford released by his current employer cited his role in Premier's "venture investments" in American Pharmaceutical and American BioScience.

No early biography of Hugues de Payens exists, nor do later writers cite such a biography.

Drake's biography cites his favourite vocal artists as James Hetfield, Tom Araya, Warrel Dane and Freddie Mercury.

The official biography suggests that he had a quiet offstage presence and preferred to keep romances out of the public eye but cites a long relationship with Isabella Fogarty whom he met in 1977, started dating in the 1980s and subsequently lived with.

The education of Malcolm Little is a more coherent tale, following the narrative line of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (written with Alex Haley) and the biographies cited in the acknowledgments by Baker.

A recent biography cites brucellosis and associated spondylitis as the cause.

Many biographies cite his love of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen on the radio, the puppet show "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" and the work of puppeteer Bil Baird as inspirations for his later work.

Boasting an introduction by Crane's celebrated friend and older contemporary Joseph Conrad, the 1923 biography cited important Crane letters for which no other source existed, and was instrumental in the revival of Crane's then-eclipsed reputation.

Cameron's concise biography in the fourth edition of Howard Colvin's Biographical Dictionary of British Architects cites all the English sources listed above.