Re: For Esme Interview

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Pierrot65 wrote:
> 	I feel obligated to say that I do not support the unauthorized 
> biographing of any genius who wishes to remain alone and at peace, and I 
> would never encourage anyone else to drive up to his damned house with a 
> personal letter or a ziplock bag full of soybeans or anything else. I
should 
> also say that the esteemed Harold Ober is, indeed, esteemed.

I'm currently reading a book called `Keepers of the Flame', a rumination on
the development of biography and literary estates from Donne up to Sylvia
Plath. It's quite interesting, and enlightening too - there's massive webs
of deceit and exploitation in there but a lot of near-disastrous incidents
where biographers talk anguished relatives of making bonfires of poor Poet
X's personal papers. There's many who well and truly crossed the line and
others who didn't go far enough. The interesting thing about all this is
that the author is one Ian Hamilton - self confessed `failed biographer' of
JD Salinger as he himself proclaims in the preface. How ironic.

Camille
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