as in autobiographer
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Antonia Fraser, the biographer and historian, will be present, as will Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and one of the most influential voices in transatlantic media.
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According to biographer Robert Jobson, a suspicious Prince William was anxious that Meghan would wear his mother’s jewels during the wedding.
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The Denver horror novelist was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and endured a lumpectomy, four rounds of chemotherapy and a double mastectomy.
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The 2025 Laureate in Literature, the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, made no mention of humanity’s future.
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The galleries were connected through a series of routes led by curators and notable arts figures, including Lauren Cuthbertson, a principal dancer with London’s Royal Ballet, and memoirist Alice Hattrick.
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Gray, one of our last great American traditionalists, has also become a particularly resourceful memoirist, though what’s onscreen never feels like a retread.
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
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Because the alcohol drives the storytellers toward vernacular expression, these pieces can seem more alive and authentic, more relatable, than big-budget, big-screen productions.
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Mallaby, a longtime financial journalist, is a nimble storyteller, and his portrait of one of the single-minded personalities plunging the world into an uncertain future is also an engaging drama of discovery.
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James Baldwin, a poet, activist and essayist, is one of the most influential figures in American history.
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There also lies the influence of Chilean essayist Pedro Lemebel, braided into Delgado Lopera’s narrative of a father, Ignacio; his 12-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Valentina; and his trans mother, Mamadora Eléctrica, inspired by the author’s own trans mother, Adela Vázquez.
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