A lively, tendentious and highly readable biography, absorbed with Picasso's abundant character flaws - especially where women were concerned.

Leon Edel wrote that the book, "whatever its shortcomings, is a consistently readable and well-constructed biography."

Yates's reputation will not be damaged by this compulsively readable biography.

A sound and readable one-volume biography.

Last year in these pages, Patricia Bosworth called this a "compulsively readable" biography.

The result, in effect, is an authoritative and highly readable short biography.

She combines cool, responsible reportage with passion for her subject, and the result is an exemplary biography, as readable as it is informative.

He has produced a highly readable and sympathetic biography that sheds new light on the "Alice" books and their eccentric creator.

A readable, fully documented, mercifully short (considering) biography of France's huge romantic poet, novelist and personal mythmaker.

The result is "a scrupulously thorough and readable" biography, Alan Ehrenhalt said here in 2000.