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Would you hire a professional biographer to do a book about you? - SteveG - 09-19-2019
I'm serious. If you didn't have to pay for it, would you allow a professional biographer to produce a book about your life? This means, going through your records and journals and emails and posts, interviewing your family, relatives, friends and all the people you may have encountered throughout your life.
(Note: I was just reading a review of Susan Sontag's biography in the The New Yorker. It contained this paragraph: "Biographers often get fed up with their subjects, with whom they have become grotesquely familiar. We know no one in life the way biographers know their subjects. It is an unholy practice, the telling of a life story that isn't one's own on the basis of oppressively massive quantities of random, not necessarily reliable information.The demands this makes on the practitioner's power of discrimination, as well as on his capacity for sympathy, may well be impossible to fill."
Sound like fun?
Well, how about it? She's got her iPhone 11 ready to start the interviews.
Re: Would you hire a professional biographer to do a book about you? - rz - 09-19-2019
I'm not sure anyone would want to read it...
Re: Would you hire a professional biographer to do a book about you? - SteveG - 09-19-2019
rz wrote:
I'm not sure anyone would want to read it...
Don't worry. We'll take care of the cover art
Re: Would you hire a professional biographer to do a book about you? - cbelt3 - 09-19-2019
I keep a bunch of short tales of my life online that I share with my family. I've posted many of them here as well. They usually end with "And that's how I got the scar" or "And that's why I'm not allowed in that country any more".
I firmly believe if you can't be a good example you can act as a cautionary tale.
Re: Would you hire a professional biographer to do a book about you? - ka jowct - 09-19-2019
If I come to a spectacularly gory end, Josh Mankiewicz should feel free to do a Dateline episode about it. Or, depending on the exact circumstances, David Attenborough.
Re: Would you hire a professional biographer to do a book about you? - Lew Zealand - 09-19-2019
I'd need a pro to scrounge up anything useful/interesting about my life but the money would be much better spent doing a bio of belty's life.
Re: Would you hire a professional biographer to do a book about you? - sekker - 09-19-2019
H no.
No. - RAMd®d - 09-19-2019
But maybe a self-published In the Line of pamphlet one day.
Re: Would you hire a professional biographer to do a book about you? - RAMd®d - 09-19-2019
Don't worry. We'll take care of the cover art
Ok, that was extremely hilarious!
STILL LLOLing!
Re: Would you hire a professional biographer to do a book about you? - testcase - 09-19-2019
No.