Writing Biographies
Writing is a famously lonely discipline.
Biographers chronicle the important relationships of their subjects—family, friends, mentors, colleagues, dependents (among others)—and this chronicling, this description of interaction, is usually done by someone sitting in a room, working alone.
Author’s desk circa 2013
Occasionally biographers get out—for consultation,
Issan Dorsey correcting the author’s wrong views in his book proposal. (photo Gigi Carol Sims)
Or for interviews.
Goofing around with poet Joanne Kyger, after she’d generously granted a long day of interviews about her friend, Philip Whalen. (Photo, Catherine Kaercher)
