Leon Edel used it as the premise of his own masterly biography, which held the field for many years.

A masterly biography of the brilliant political general who headed the American occupation of Germany after World War II, presided over the Berlin airlift and created West Germany.

A masterly biography of the representative figure of the Renaissance.

Last year our reviewer, Barry Gewen, praised this book as a "masterly, comprehensive and frequently surprising biography."

For Rose, Nancy Milford's "Zelda" (1970), a masterly biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, was "a ground-breaking work."

Last year our reviewer, Harold Evans, called this a "masterly biography" from which "we emerge marveling at the manifold gifts that informed Churchill's genius for leadership."

A massive and masterly biography of the great independent Hollywood producer who feared, correctly, that he would be remembered primarily for "Gone With the Wind."

From Roy Jenkins's masterly biography, we emerge marveling at the manifold gifts that informed Churchill's genius for leadership.

Here is the second volume of John Richardson's magisterial - and masterly - biography of the minotaur of modernism: "A Life of Picasso."

Since he began his journalistic career in the mid-1960's, Schickel has written numerous film reviews, essays and books, including a masterly biography of D. W. Griffith.