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Thalia Book Club: The Autobiography of a Biographer
Written by James Atlas, Edmund Morris and Stacy Schiff
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A panel of James Atlas (Delmore Schwartz, Saul Bellow), Edmund Morris (Theodore Roosevelt) and Stacy Schiff (Vladimir Nabokov, Antoine de Saint-Exupery) discuss the process of researching and writing another person's story.
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