Robert K. Landers

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Fame Is Fickle

MacKinlay Kantor and his magnum opus are largely forgotten. Tom Shroder dives the legacy of his grandfather, who was once a big deal
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'The Impossible Craft'

Donaldson's willingness to admit imperfections in his work and the mistakes he’s made in pursuit of his subjects makes him a winning guide to literary biography.
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Writing a Life

How should a fair-minded biographer deal with a literary subject’s “sensational underside,” and when does that endeavor turn into "pathography"?
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