Category Archives: Biography

The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion

Here are some highlights from this 2015 book: * “I belong on the edge of a story,” Didion once said. Temperamentally, she is a reader, not an on-the-spot reporter or a stringer chasing witnesses down the street. In 1976 she … Continue reading

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The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale by James Atlas

Here are some highlights from this 2017 book: * Janet Malcolm: “The biographer is writing a life, not lives, and to keep himself on course, must cultivate a kind of narcissism on behalf of his subject that blinds him to … Continue reading

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