The term "hagiography" has come to refer to the works of contemporary biography and historians whom critics perceive to be uncritical and even "reverential."

Published, in 1857, Brock's departure into contemporary biography, achieved an enormous circulation and ran to many popular editions.

Donna Heiland (Vassar) comments on other contemporary biographies of Johnson.

Prescott was not familiar with American literature, and he based the work on other contemporary biographies of Brown.

A contemporary political biography described Wheaton as one of "The Progressive Men of Minnesota."

There is no contemporary biography of Altfrid.

And outside of Baker and a couple of contemporary biographies, you could have put all the Wilson books available at that time on one shelf.

Published annually to provide current and accurate information, the familiar bright-red volume is recognised as the standard reference source of contemporary Canadian biography.

Even when riddled with the obligatory pinpricks of contemporary biography, Babe Ruth is one American hero who remains larger than life.

However, more contemporary biographies (Wen's work was not published until 1830) make no mention of these events, which are thought to have been fabricated after Hu's death.