I hate modern biographies of writers who are not public figures and not fair game.

There is a trend in these modern biographies - similar to today's cinema and unlike the past - to use source material of a private character.

One website lists it as "the best modern biography of James I".

First published in 1978, it is said to be the first modern scholarly biography of a senior Australian military figure.

But he always does this mockingly, on the grounds that this is what modern biography expects.

And so it was that Scotland's greatest poet never met the inventor of modern biography, despite their living only three miles apart.

Hermits, monks, and priests used this historic period to write the first modern biographies.

There is surely no modern biography that is more improbable yet dramatically coherent.

The first modern biography, originally published in 1902 and often reprinted.

Most modern biographies of Herod deny that the massacre took place.