This was not going to look good in the official biography.
I once read in a biography of a great man that he "died well."
I made a similar point about the timing in my biography.
For further details see under '1970's and 1980s' in Biography above.
Nothing in the biography accounted for the years after 1941.
He would then include these (and sometimes nothing else) in the "biography."
The hit and the story became episodes in my official biography.
It was his great achievement, one of the greatest in biography.
"He is rich only in his biography," the piece said.
Much of the information in more recent biographies is attributed to these earlier works.