An insightful biography of the popular author whose resentment at being born female never led her to challenge the social arrangements that depressed the status of women.

According to Laurence Leamer's balanced and insightful biography, "Fantastic" (the word is a Schwarzenegger favorite), the man's gifts include not only an enormous talent for self-promotion but a remarkable ability to learn from life.

And yet "Mitterrand pivots on ambivalence," observes Franz-Olivier Giesbert, author of an insightful biography on the President.

Brinkley's wonderfully insightful and judicious biography is more than the story of a life; it's a political history of modernity.

Now is the time for a comprehensive, insightful biography of Aaron Copland, and Howard Pollack has answered the call.

Jules Verne never knew he was "inventing science fiction," in the felicitous phrase of Peter Costello's insightful 1978 biography.

Gornick has sandwiched an insightful biography of the leading 19th-century suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, between introductory and concluding remarks about the state of contemporary feminism.

An insightful, informative biography of the daring and resourceful money manipulator and art collector (1837-1913) who never apologized and never explained.

Maxwell was right to see that we are in need of an insightful, detailed biography of this singular corporate force of nature.

Can a talented but nonspecialist science writer have any hope of contributing a serious, insightful biography of such a monumental man?