The classic biography, superseded in places by newer research but still full of many valuable insights.

It took Ian Gibson almost 20 years of research to produce his classic biography of the Spanish Civil War's most gifted victim.

He supported Max Ernst and Man Ray before they were anyone and wrote a classic biography of Miró.

Ernest Jones's emphatic disclaimers in his classic three-volume biography of Freud piqued my interest.

In this classic biography, which has not been reprinted, Flexner recounts the glories and miseries of Wollstonecraft's childhood and professional life.

An exception may be illustrated by a passage from a classic biography, that of John Constable by Charles Leslie.

Yet Lincoln, according to Herndon's classic biography, "never judged men by his like or dislike for them.

More than a classic biography, this film sheds light on the impact that this man and his politic made on Burkina Faso and Africa in general.

If our biographers could learn to master this illusion we might someday have classic biographies of our own.

Leon Edel's classic five-volume biography of Henry James left little unquarried.