A reader may think that writing a biography would be an easy task. Research that needs to be done by an author of non-fiction books requires many hours of focused time and countless interviews with real persons associated with the person or event.
The author of a biography should have all of the facts stored in his memory and merely needs to transcribe them into a book without further research. Wrong
Maybe it was because of my age, 82, that I was unable to sit back and dictate to a stenographer, or into a tape recorder, a flow of the events and influences that shaped my personality and...
A reader may think that writing a biography would be an easy task. Research that needs to be done by an author of non-fiction books requires many hour...