Episode 9: How To Begin a Biography: The Case of William Faulkner

I look at how biographers have begun their biographies and the merits of different kinds of openings and why biography has been called factitious.

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Talks and interviews about the life of biography as experienced by a biographer over forty years and fourteen biographies, dealing with subjects ranging from Sylvia Plath to William Faulkner, Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag, and much more.