Biography is a scrofulous cottage industry, done mostly by academics who get grants and have a good time going all over the place interviewing. How seldom it is that one has ever heard of the person writing the biography.


The Paris Review (Summer 1985)

Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

Biography is a scrofulous cottage industry, done mostly by academics who get grants and have a good time going all over the place interviewing. How...

Biography is a scrofulous cottage industry, done mostly by academics who get grants and have a good time going all over the place interviewing. How...

Biography is a scrofulous cottage industry, done mostly by academics who get grants and have a good time going all over the place interviewing. How...

Biography is a scrofulous cottage industry, done mostly by academics who get grants and have a good time going all over the place interviewing. How...