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Why Read Literary Biography?

Por: The Atlantic Life December 14, 2022

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What Shirley Hazzard’s life can, and can’t, tell us about her fictionCraig Sillitoe / Fairfax Media / GettyDecember 14, 2022, 6 AM ETWhat strange beasts literary biographies are, how mixed their reasons for existing. The desire to read one must come from admiration for the writer’s work, but a literary biographer’s central concern isn’t a writer’s work; it’s the writer’s life. And, though the gods of capitalism may grumble at my... + full article



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