biography is essentially a
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier. Erica Jong
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier. Erica Jong
His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush. Emily Dickinson
Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together. Elizabeth Hardwick
Ronald Reagan’s biographer wrote of the former president’s final days: \”for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence.\” Edwin Morris
Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he’s very much alive. Frank Pierson
What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better. Doris Lessing
Every child has the capacity to be everything. Doris Lessing
History is about life. It’s awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there’s no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what … Read more
In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright’s very powerful story. Darryl Pinckney
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats. Dan Barber