~ Writing a Biography ~
SPEAKING OF BIOGRAPHY....
Articles, Etc., on the Biographer's Craft



        Articles on this page are about the practical aspects and once in a while the philosophical implications of the biographer's craft.

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    • FINDING OUR VOICE: Telling the Story of "DAUGHTER OF PERSIA" (142.0KB)
    How an American writer of discovered the right voice to tell the story of her remarkable collaborator and the tragic history of Iran in the modern era.

    PODCAST on Daughter of Persia (2008).

      And just for fun....


      "A Central Park Wedding." Metropolitan Diary, New York Times (Aug. 8, 2011: Scroll down)
      In ninety-seven degrees Fahrenheit, yet. Who says New York isn't a melting pot?


      Click here to listen to a talk on SARA AND ERSKINE, AN AMERICAN ROMANCE and how the biographer tracks the clues to the life of the heart.


      Above all, don't forget...

      STALKING THE ELEPHANT, a blog about writing biography, the writing life, the creative processes of biography, and of course SARA AND ERSKINE, AN AMERICAN ROMANCE, my work in progress on the World War One-era minister's wife and suffragist, Sara Bard Field, and her extraordinary affair with the outspoken atheist and philosophical anarchist, Charles Erskine Scott Wood.

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