How Important Is It for the Reader to Know the Circumstances of the Author?

i was wondering, when i was reading your analysis of all these stories, um, and because stories, short stories especially, can be read again and again throughout your life. How important is it for the reader to know the circumstances of the writer, and how does that change the story? Maybe for you as you look at these stories overtime, but how important is it to know that? I think in the case of trugene, he had this really wooden method of making up the story,. ta, and i quote henry james talking about it a and he just had a very strange technique. And his stories are very poorly staged, dramatically, let’s say therethat