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The Godfather: Peter Corris on literary biography

The Godfather: Peter Corris on literary biography

by NRB | 7 Feb 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

I’ve been reading biographies of two writers I admire in part – Norman Mailer and George Orwell. Literary biography is something I enjoy and the best examples of it, such as Richard Ellmann on Oscar Wilde and Norman Sherry on Graham Greene,  have given me enormous...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on the books that stayed unpublished

by NRB | 26 Oct 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

Like many, perhaps most, scribblers who’ve been at it a long time, I have written books that will never be published. Generally speaking, this is a good thing for the writer and readers. Nothing of Hemingway’s published posthumously enhanced his reputation and the...

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