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I believe anybody can write a biography just as anybody can write a novel—but in both cases, you have to have a strong feeling for story. Also anybody can do research—but if you don’t know how to arrange facts in a way that build character and plot, amuse your reader and propel the narrative, you might as well be making lists. Storytelling is a lot harder than interviewing, ploughing through google, or even deciphering the handwriting. Few subjects have lives that fall naturally into the structure of a novel, with the right pacing of climaxes and low points. But you can control the amount of space you give each element in the book. To do justice to your subject, you must also favor personality over ideas, character over cause, narrative over thesis and psychology over ideology. If that isn’t enough, you need to be intuitive, empathetic, untrusting, a close reader, a deft listener, not too imaginative, with experience as a detective a high tolerance for disintegrating paper, not to mention contradiction. For years Beckett

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