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The graphic biography, 'Alan's War,' started with a random question: New in Paperback (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) The revealing black-and-white graphic biography Alan's War (First Second, 336 pp., $24) began by chance. In 1994, author Emmanuel Gilbert asked Alan Cope, a World War II veteran, for directions and started a conversation that lasted more than five years.... us.rd.yahoo.com
?The World Is What it Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul? (New York Times) ?The islands of the Caribbean dot and dash their way through the sea, linking different worlds.? us.rd.yahoo.com
A Life Split in Two (New York Times) This biography of V. S. Naipaul is a monument truly worthy of its subject, elucidating the enduring but painfully asymmetrical love triangle at the core of Naipaul?s life and work. us.rd.yahoo.com
"American Rifle: A Biography" by Alexander Rose (Washington Post) AMERICAN RIFLE A Biography By Alexander Rose Delacorte. 495 pp. $30 us.rd.yahoo.com
Review: 'Chagall: A Biography' cites innovation (San Francisco Chronicle) Chagall A Biography By Jackie Wullschlager Knopf; 582 pages; $40 With young artists expected and encouraged to be plugged-in polymaths happily jerry-rigging signifiers, the notion of formal innovation within a medium feels more dated than ever. Ironically,... us.rd.yahoo.com
Geithner biography (AP via Yahoo! Finance) NAME--Timothy F. Geithner AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION-47; August 18, 1961, New York City. EXPERIENCE--Kissinger Associates Inc., 1985 to 1988; Assistant Financial Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Assistant Secretary and Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs, U.S. us.rd.yahoo.com
Authors of Boren biography sign book at Union (The Oklahoma Daily) Students and faculty gathered Wednesday afternoon in the Beaird Lounge of the Oklahoma Memorial Union for a book signing of OU President David L. Boren’s biography, “Oklahoma Statesman: The Life of David Boren.” us.rd.yahoo.com
Geithner biography (INO News) AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION-47; August 18, 1961, New York City. us.rd.yahoo.com
Ledger family distances itself from biography claims (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Heath Ledger's family has attacked a new book that suggests the late actor was suffering from bipolar disorder in the time leading up to his death. us.rd.yahoo.com
Books: 'The World is What it is' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Patrick French. Alfred A. Knopf. 554 pages. $30. Patrick French, who wrote the authorized biography of V.S. Naipaul, the great Trinidad-born novelist, is certainly unafraid to face unpleasant facts about his subject. us.rd.yahoo.com
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