#JLF 2014: The Art of Biography

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Channel: Jaipur Literature Festival · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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A N Wilson,Ray Monk, Richard Holmes and Andrew Graham-Dixon moderated by Peter Godwin

How do you pin a life to the page? Ray Monk, biographer of Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Richard Holmes, biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, A.N. Wilson, biographer of Tolstoy, C.S. Lewis and Dante, and Andrew Graham-Dixon, biographer of Caravaggio and Michelangelo, discuss their techniques and obsessions with Maya Jasanoff, biographer of Conrad.

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