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Absolutely Revolting
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Hazel Rowley

Biographer of big subjects
by Lucy Sussex •
April 2011, no. 330

To write about a biographer is to be aware of a presence, psychologically if not spectrally, sitting on your shoulder. This presence is not an angel, more like an imp, the minor demon that arouses bad deeds, or thoughts. In writing about a biographer we can feel not angelic inspiration, but the imp of doubt, saying: This is not good enough, I could do better.

 


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