As Richard Ellmann's splendid 1959 biography points out, James Joyce was a strict guardian of his own image.

(Ages 6 to 10) This splendid biography for young readers was first published in 1947.

Last year in the Book Review, Molly Haskell called this a "splendid biography."

The exception is David Marquand's splendid biography of Ramsay MacDonald, which is at its best when dealing with 1931.

This splendid biography of MacArthur is admiring but not blind to the general's shortcomings.

As an account of the blossoming of Eleanor--emotional, sexual, intellectual, political, and otherwise--this is a splendid biography.

This "splendid biography deserves a large readership," Joseph J. Ellis wrote in the Book Review in 1996.

He had charisma - in many scenes, as Kate Buford points out in this splendid biography, he is the only person you watch on the screen.

John D. Rockefeller Sr., the "Titan" of Ron Chernow's splendid biography.

This is a splendid biography, if not for vegetarians.