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Review: Emily Bernard on Margaret Walker

Oct 13, 2023
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The job of a biographer is to compose a narrative that sufficiently and convincingly captures the life of a human being. What an impossible task, to explain an entire human life in a limited number of pages. Like all other kinds of writing, the writing of biography is a feat that requires as much imagination as it does investigation. That’s because a co…

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