The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
"Joseph Leon Edel" was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.
The Encyclopædia Britannica calls Edel "the foremost 20th-century authority on the life and works of Henry James." His work on James won him both a List of winners of the National Book Award#Nonfiction/National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography#1960s/Pulitzer Prize.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous critics! More Leon Edel on Wikipedia.Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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