The perfect bio –isn’t.
Why are bios so difficult to write? Writers like attention. Right? Sort of. We wanted to be liked. Desperately. If by “liked” you mean respected, admired, paid for our work, invited to dinner parties, thought of as clever, reviewed favorably, mentioned in trade papers, interviewed, lusted after (from a respectful distance), annotated, translated, made into … More The perfect bio –isn’t.