June 21, 2002
Searching for Primo Levi
The lot of biographers is to be stymied by imperfect evidence -- missing letters, reluctant witnesses, fading memories, and the greatest silencer of all, death. How they react to such obstacles may reveal as much about themselves as their subjects. In recent years, the frustrations of biography have called forth some wonderfully unorthodox responses.
Perhaps the most unusual case is that of Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of Theodore Roosevelt. Morris, as the
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