Dick and A Scanner Darkly, Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, Penelope Fitzgerald and The Blue Flower-but this can be a perilous exercise. I also like to read about the lives of the authors of some of my favorite books-Iris Murdoch and The Sea, The Sea, Philip K. Lives that produce stories like Native Son, The Bell Jar, Lolita, A Rage in Harlem, or Frankenstein. Lives that are exciting and rich and full of conflict. I like to read biographies that share a commonality with my own life, but like the best fiction, I’d rather be transported to worlds with characters that are larger than life. Lives that are tumultuous, scandal-ridden, and full of perils. Lives like Jane Austen and Emily Dickinson, or Penelope Fitzgerald who didn’t write her first book until she was 58. Sometimes I read biographies of authors whose lives parallel aspects of my own small lives that eventually produce great art.
I live vicariously through the lives and stories of the writers I love and admire.
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