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“... had a great collection of fossils (bequeathed to Cambridge University and now incorporated in the Sedgwick Museum) but his most prized personal possessions included an urn mentioned by Horace in one of his odes and the head of Terence cut in an emerald. ‘George IV’ by David Wilkie (1829). Woodward was also the owner of a Roman shield on which the ...”

“... and radio biographies but also in a few books, such as the biographies of Norman Mailer by Peter Manso (1985) and Truman Capote by George Plimpton (1997). Plimpton had previously been involved in what may have been the earliest significant biography of this kind, Edie: An American Biography ‘by Jean Stein edited with George Plimpton’, published in ...”

“... epistemology, or at least not of the abstract and theoretical kind associated with the late Eve Sedgwick. (The title phrase turns out to be one of Murphy’s – typically uttered at a supper or cocktail party when she was about to launch into a fascinating yet unstoppable monologue on one of her pet literary, historical or political obsessions. Asked about ...”