"The two stars worried about how strange it felt," writes biographer McGilligan.

To Stout's surprise," wrote biographer John McAleer, "Sumner Blossom, publisher of The American Magazine, refused to pursue the Fox piece but offered Stout double payment if he would convert the story into a Wolfe novella.

He thought it both romantic and evocative," wrote biographer Frank Brady, "but the sponsors disagreed.

But it was Busch, writes biographer Tully Potter, who provided the first impetus, as he "had long wanted to create an environment in which professional players and rank amateurs could make music together, studying the chamber literature in depth and giving concerts only when and if they wished to do so."

After her opening-night performance in the role of Lady Teazle, drama critic Mankiewicz returned to the press room "full of fury and too many drinks," wrote biographer Richard Meryman:

"Thereafter, though he would continue writing for another thirty years, his stories would all be Nero Wolfe stories," wrote biographer John McAleer.

As wrote biographer Laura Jackson, "It is impossible to imagine current culture without the unique influence of Mick Jagger."

In the 17th century nuns often wrote biographer of their sisters and chronicles of their convents, but most of these works remained anonymous.

From that point on, wrote biographer Dahl, Quisling had to tread a "fine line between truth and falsehood," and emerged from it "an elusive and often pitiful figure."

Which none of the others could do", wrote biographer Nicholas Schaffner.