A. C. Grayling Quote

Good biography requires the psychologist's eye, the historian's nose, the novelist's feel for narrative. It is a form of highly organized gossip, and the more private corners the biographer can wriggle into — especially the dark ones — the better the resulting book.


New York Times Book Review (29 December 1996)


Good biography requires the psychologist's eye, the historian's nose, the novelist's feel for narrative. It is a form of highly organized gossip, and ...

Good biography requires the psychologist's eye, the historian's nose, the novelist's feel for narrative. It is a form of highly organized gossip, and ...

Good biography requires the psychologist's eye, the historian's nose, the novelist's feel for narrative. It is a form of highly organized gossip, and ...

Good biography requires the psychologist's eye, the historian's nose, the novelist's feel for narrative. It is a form of highly organized gossip, and ...