Gerald Clarke (author) Quotes

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When a reader steps into a novel, he is walking into the writer's imagination. When he opens a biography, he is entering two lives; the subject and his biographer are like twins who will remain together until the pages turn to dust.

Gerald Clarke

A good biographer should combine the skills of the novelist and the detective, and add to them the patience and compassion of the priest.

Gerald Clarke

The biographer must be close enough to sympathize, but far enough away to see clearly, to explain but not to defend or attack. He is literature's high-wire performer. A false step this way or that and he loses his balance — and his book.

Gerald Clarke

Gerald Clarke

Gerald Clarke

Born: June 21, 1937 (age 87)

Bio: Gerald Clarke is an American writer, best known for the biographies Capote and Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland.

Known for:

Capote (1988)
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (2000)
The Drone Virus (2004)
Truman Capote (1990)
The Book of Thame (1978)

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