Hide It From the Biographobes
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To the skeptic, biographies are fraught with the factitious. Written lives are merely shapes of supposition. Biography is an amalgam of fiction and fact that presses us constantly to reconsider what it is we think we know about ourselves and the world that has gone before us. Biographies can never rival the definitive structure of novels because biographers can never own their subjects, becoming the sole proprietors of their worlds in the way William Faulkner did.
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