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Lives and Legacies

From the December 2009 Print Edition

Biography, Virginia Woolf once observed, is the search for the fertile fact. The four best biographies of 2009 each approach doorstop size”which suggests that, for these authors, there’s a lot of fertility in the facts. They aren’t stocking stuffers, but, if you’re looking for . . . . Continue Reading »