Biography Theory at a Glance (4/9)

Portrait of the French Artist As British Scholar

Maurois, André. Aspects of Biography. New York, Ungar, 1966 [1929].

Statement from the French WWI vet turned anglophile and popular lecturer in the English-speaking world. He wrote biographies of Disraeli, Byron, Shelley, and many others, including some for children; his Call No Man Happy: An Autobiography dates from 1944. Quotable: "Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record."