![]() A good deal can be said against interviews: Witnesses can distort the past, misremembering it, projecting their own agendas. Part of what I mean by a living archive are the interviews I conducted for both the Plath and Faulkner biographies. ![]() For me she is a living archive, a way of remembering my own past. I witnessed in London and Yorkshire many grey scenes of a nation still recovering from a war that shaped Plath’s troubling experiences as well. I arrived in England just a few months after she died. Indeed, it is what Faulkner did not say, particularly about his time in Hollywood, that drove my search for new material, resulting in the discovery at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of a Faulkner screenplay that no one had commented on before.īiographer Paul Murray Kendall said that biography is also autobiography, and that is certainly the case in The Last Days of Sylvia Plath, which is more explicitly personal than my other biographies. ![]()
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