The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.
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People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.
The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.
If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.
I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
I was authorized to do everything that I did.
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.