[Vwoolf] "Guest Essay" from the New York Times: "Literary Biography's Man Problem"

[Neverow, Vara S.]

Greetings,

Note: The New York Times has done away with the Op-Ed term. Now the contributions are "Guest Essays."

This guest essay is of interest to Woolfians not because of the focal point of the essay--the problems that emerge when only men write about men's lives and when male biographers are complicit with the subjects they study--but because it brings into focus the various obstacles that a biographer encounters when trying to locate materials, access them, and acquire permissions for publishing them. The author--Ruth Franklin--argues for "shared access" to essential documents to create a more inclusive and insightful culture of researching lives.

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Ms, Franklin is the author of a biography of the writer Shirley Jackson. In “The Aspern Papers,” the Henry James novella of literary obsession, a biographer becomes fixated on a stash of ...
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Cheers,

Vara

Vara Neverow
Department of English
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu
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