Marshall greatly admired George Washington, and between 1804 and 1807 published an influential five-volume biography.

We see Horblit's personal copy of A. N. L. Munby's 1951 five-volume biography of Phillipps, bristling impressively with notes and articles.

She said that in the five-volume biography "the drawback for the reader was that the principal figure was often lost from sight in a wealth of detail."

After Wilberforce's death, two of his sons produced a five-volume biography that greatly downgraded Clarkson's role in the movement and did not credit the role the slave revolts played.

Five years after his death, sons Robert and Samuel Wilberforce published a five-volume biography about their father, and subsequently a collection of his letters in 1840.

On Hemingway, consider Michael S. Reynolds's five-volume biography.

In Michael Reynolds's five-volume biography of Hemingway, there are three volumes covering the first 30 years of his life, and only one covering the last 21.

He later wrote a five-volume biography of Villa, Memorias de Pancho Villa (1936-1951).

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

He won a Pulitizer Prize in 1963 for the second and third volumes of his five-volume biography of James.