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In her review, Kathryn Hughes called the book “a gripping testimony into the enduring problems that all biographers face in pursuit of their art.”

Ms. Vaill nevertheless leans into it harder than previous biographers, who have characterized their mutual affection as platonic.

Edited by Lee’s appointed biographer Casey Cep, it collects the author’s youthful short stories along with the surprisingly few nonfiction pieces she produced after becoming famous.

But the biographer also makes clear that Roth cultivated reticence with the same zeal with which he flaunted candor.

Despite the ignominious end to his career, Diggs spent many years as a stellar legislator who became, as his biographer Marion Orr writes, “the most powerful Black politician on Capitol Hill.”