Imagining the lives of others

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By Evelyn Juers

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Perhaps most biographies are, to some extent, fictional constructs.

Writing a biography often means imposing a structured narrative on a life that may not have really had one, selecting and discarding aspects of that life - from letters to love affairs - according to the biographer’s own ideas of ...