"He develops an interest in reading and, in particular, in history and in biography." - FREDRIK LOGEVALL, John F. Kennedy: We are all mortal, Presidential #Presidential #NationalBiographersDay #FredrikLogevall
"As a biographer, there is no one like him!" - ROMAN MARS, Breaking Down The Power Broker (with Conan O'Brien), 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #NationalBiographersDay #RomanMars
"I started reading a biography on him!" - BROTI GUPTA, lower merion laptop scandal//presidential pets, Lecture Hall Podcast #lecturehallpod #lecturehallpodcast #NationalBiographersDay #BrotiGupta
"If Frank Abagnale didn't write his own autobiography, then who the HELL did?" - JAVIER LEIVA, The Real Catch Me If You Can part 6, Pretend #Pretend #PretendPodcast #NationalBiographersDay #JavierLeiva
๐ Itโs #NationalBiographersDay! Ever dreamed of writing a biography that actually captures someoneโs essence? Letโs talk tips on crafting a story that lives beyond the facts. โ๏ธ๐ #BiographersDay #WritingCommunity
What's your favorite biography about a figure from the American Revolution? ๐
It's #NationalBiographersDay! We have featured a number of biographies on Revolutionary individuals in our #ReadtheRevolution series: bit.ly/3ERo99G
"It was a friendship so intimate, that some biographers have insisted that it was romantic!" - KARINA LONGWORTH, The Many Loves of Howard Hughes: Katharine Hepburn, 1938, You Must Remember This #YouMustRememberThis #NationalBiographersDay #KarinaLongworth
Celebrate #NationalBiographersDay by checking out some of these influential biographies.
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"That's a distressing thing for a biographer to uncover!" - FREDRIK LOGEVALL, John F. Kennedy: We are all mortal, Presidential #Presidential #NationalBiographersDay #FredrikLogevall
"The biographer is a natural born reader who lives surrounded by bound volumes and draws therefrom his sustenance. Print is his habitat, he swims in it like a fish in a river."
Catherine Drinker Bowen #nationalbiographersday
It's #NationalBiographersDay today, marking 1st meeting of literary figure Samuel Johnson & his biographer James Boswell #OnThisDay 1763. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1799 edition of Boswellโs "Life of Samuel Johnson" (considered 1 of greatest biographies ever written) #BiographersDayโฆ/๐
Today is National Biographers Day. Come in and celebrate by reading about some of the most interesting figures in history written by amazing authors. #bnbrentwood #bnbuzz #barnesandnoble #nationalbiographersday #biography #biographer #bibliophile #reader #bookworm #booklover #booksbooksbooks
A favorite: Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford @penguinrandom #NationalBiographersDay http://buff.ly/2pXR2YR