Tag: biographers
John le Carré: his biographer’s revelations about his private life
If there is one expression that should now be banished from the writings of British critics and academics, it is “definitive biography”. Publishing news across the Channel regularly brings new…
Praise of empathy among biographers, by Pierre Assouline
Not all writers have to like their characters. It’s even so rare that when it happens in a novel, the critics take notice. The least of things in biographers. Some…