Top 10 badly behaved biographies
Biography is a classic, difficult art, and biographers, those torch-bearers of one of literature’s oldest genres, tend to be scrupulous, detail-oriented obsessives. Yet under rigid control there is often a strange and passionate devotion; they might fall in love with a ghost in order to begin their work, but they have to fall out of love in order to finish it.
Aspiring biographers have a thousand reasons not to embark on a biography – these books tend to take a decade or more of work and rarely can anyone survive on an advance for that long. But alongside the more. Here are 10 of my favourite such books.
