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If a biography is authorized, then you can interview the subject, and in some cases those interviews provide a lot of the material. Walter Isaacson's biography
by ameliaquining 3mo ago
If a biography is authorized, then you can interview the subject, and in some cases those interviews provide a lot of the material. Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs was like this, for example.
- InitialLastName 3mo agoIn addition to the direct interview, there are other advantages of authorization that often allow the author a much deeper access to research the subject: - Access to records, correspondence, and journals in the subject's possession - explicit endorsement from the subject encourages their family, friends and colleagues to work with the author. - Opportunities for the subject themselves to fact-check and contextualize the research. That must be balanced against the fact that authorization also often provides the subject an opportunity to review the content, giving them a hand in crafting the narrative and/or suppressing unflattering details.