1.   As author Taylor learned, however, biographical subjects need not be heroic.

2.   A magnificent choice of biographical subject, involving a crisis of conscience that changed the world.

3.   Clarke, whose previous biographical subject was Truman Capote, thereby indicating a specialty in celebrity junkies, is a better writer than many who till these particular fields.

4.   For most prospective readers of this unexpected book, there will be more interest initially in the author than in his biographical subject.

5.   He has never been an easy biographical subject because he zealously guards his privacy and rarely meets the press.

6.   Lodge candidly argues that the reason D.H. Lawrence makes such a fascinating biographical subject is the confluence of creativity, sex and class in his life.

7.   Turning the Deity into a biographical subject was not an insurmountable task, Miles said Tuesday.

8.   While biographical subjects need not be paragons of virtue, they must have led interesting lives.

9.   White was attracted to Genet as a biographical subject, because he considered him underrated as a writer.