Samuel R. Delany presents the writer as biographical subject and what it is the biographer needs to know about literary world and how reputations are made. But first a discussion of a movie, The Wife

The nature of literary power, who holds it, and how the biographer should understand it.

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.

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The nature of literary power, who holds it, and how the biographer should understand it.

The nature of literary power, who holds it, and how the biographer should understand it.

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