Phillips, Michelle

This is not a conventional biography. I rely not on documents, but almost exclusively on recorded interviews and memories of Michael Foot constituting a raw record of conversations not smoothed over by a biographical narrative. This is a book about process. I show how I went about obtaining my story, which ostensibly concerned Jill Craigie, who married Michael Foot in 1949. Michael entered Jill's life in 1945. He was such an important source for this biography that, inevitably, I learned as much about him as about her. Readers come to biographies to learn about the subject, not the biographer....