Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist. In 1927—just five years after the publication of Ulysses and five years ...
Meryle Secrest recently wrote a book called Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject (Knopf, 2007). The title is darkly humorous. Secrest does not literally plan homicide.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/CNS file) Martin Luther King Jr. once characterized the times in which he lived as “life’s restless sea.” His own turbulent ...
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