“Think what a horrid piece of work the biographers make of a man’s…” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Think what a horrid piece of work the biographers make of a man’s private history.”

Expressing his distrust of biographers invading the privacy of their subjects · Remark on biography

About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

29 August 1809–7 October 1894

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., born 29 August 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dead 7 October 1894 in Boston, was one of the most recognizably versatile figures in nineteenth-century American culture: physician, medical reformer, anatomist, professor, poet, novelist, essayist, conversational satirist, and public…

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