You do not give a great biographer a timetable. You let them do their work and, in due course, publish it.
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I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.
My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.
Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be objective. A memoirist goes in with all the baggage of a bad biographer.
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
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