Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject
Secrest wrote lives of Dali, Berenson, Wright and Sondheim, and here describes what it took to reach each one: the locked archives, and the widows guarding them.
Secrest wrote lives of DalĂ, Bernard Berenson, Frank Lloyd Wright and Stephen Sondheim, and here recounts what it took to reach each of them: the widows guarding papers, the locked archives, the interviews that turned. A memoir of the biographer’s trade rather than of a life, written when she was in her nineties.
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Tyler Cowen
A highly entertaining quasi-autobiography, focusing on her work on the nine different biographies she wrote of some very different people.
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