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Someone who outlives you just enough to tell everyone what you actually meant.
means A writer who researches and narrates the story of someone else's life.
from Built from Greek parts: 'bios' meaning life, and 'graphein' meaning to write — the same '-graphy' family as photography (light-writing) and geography (earth-writing). The word itself is a relatively late assembly, stitched together in English from these ancient Greek roots to name a genre that had existed long before it had a tidy label.
- job hazard
- falls half in love with the subject
- best source
- the letters the subject tried to burn
- power move
- writes the death before the childhood
- dirty secret
- footnotes hide the juiciest opinions