Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book. (Stacy Schiff)

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

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