SOURCE: "The Biographer and the Murderer," in The New York Times Magazine, December 12, 1993, pp. 74-5.
[Atlas is an American poet, biographer, and critic. At the time this article was published, he was at work on a biography of Saul Bellow. In the following essay, he discusses the changing nature of biography, contending that current books, including The Silent Woman, tend to revel more in scandalous details than serious scholarship.]
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