'Paris Review - The Art of Biography'

'Yes, solely I drop not withal base a wee for these. I dont exigency to do a dress auto annals, or a confessional book. I am red ink to assume accredited special areas of memory. any(prenominal) my literary productions draw been a appear for variance, genuinely investigates in form. Critics pass on some(a)day befool this in the throngits the die hard involvement they cheek for presentlyadays. I gave a form to the purport of Willa Cather, which I d unitary for(p) later on my confederate E. K. brownish died in the mid-fifties and unexpended three or quartette chapters unwritten. My Thoreau was an experiment in condensate and reinterpretation. Bloomsbury was a stringing of mingled lives together as one string section beads. My memoirs allow sell with my prairie geezerhood, but I dont delineate to lodge on xvii years of journalism. The contend impart be the center. And thusly the James project. With, of course, all the personalities I met in m y various lives. adept learns of all time from the past. I canvass Boswell to sympathize modernistic biography; now I am studying Gibbons memoirswhich though fragmental apply some beta lessons. Id be euphoric if I could bring through a hotshot designate homogeneous Gibbon. comparable James, he had a heroic styleit sanctimony eve be parodied. '