Telling Lives: The Aftermath
Abstract
This article unveils the aftermath of writing life narratives for publication. As biographer of Pete Seeger and Aldous Huxley, I draw on my experiences to categorize response from family, community, and subject. The thesis is that such anticipated response inevitably shapes the work, before publication, via prior censorship. (Oral history; oral biography interviewing; author/subject
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