Although he professes not to have read any of those other books, he is confident that his previous biographers didn't get it right.

His intention is "not to supplant or overtake previous biographers and critics but merely to add a significant layer."

But depression always threatened, made worse by the troubles of his children, to whom he was not as bad a father as previous biographers have insisted.

Therefore, his omissions are equally the omissions of previous biographers, though it is Houbraken who receives all the blame.

He said he had uncovered hundreds of letters that had not been seen by previous biographers.

When he rang me he was already cross about his treatment at the hands of a previous biographer of Hamilton.

Dolnick thinks that Powell's previous biographers "vastly underestimate the dangers" that he confronted.

But unlike previous biographers, he takes a microscopic look at everything Gershwin wrote, or at least everything that survives.

That is why it seemed necessary to me to lay out my evidence to avoid the pitfalls that have tripped up all his previous biographers.

Louvish has an easier time than previous biographers because it's harder for Fields to make him a sucker from the grave.