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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.

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

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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.

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Gerald Clarke

Gerald Clarke

Born: June 21, 1937 (age 88)
Bio: Gerald Clarke is an American writer, best known for the biographies Capote and Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland.
Known for:
  1. Capote (1988)
  2. Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (2000)
  3. The Drone Virus (2004)
  4. Truman Capote (1990)
  5. The Book of Thame (1978)

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