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o undertake a biography is to commit oneself to a distinctive
intellectual project, and to the practice of an intricate and
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sided craft. What kinds of materials does the craft encompass, and what kinds of
choices do biographers make in using them? Can the biographer really
get “inside the head” (or the heart) of her subject? What do various
kinds of life traces – in writing, in the physical details of
domestic environment, in photographic images, in creative expression
– tell us? In the following cases biographers explain why and how
they have pursued the questions that give coherence to their work.
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