The Ethics of Writing About Real People

I think it's changed quite a lot since my book about my dad, which was 30 years ago. I think the rights of the individual being or individuals being written about has been addressed much more than it was back then. So I would affirm that right to tell it as it is and to be as honest as you can. We were talking before we came in, we haven't met till tonight about, to what degree any fictionalizing is allowable in memoir. And I think we're both a bit old-fashioned that we don't allow ourselves lives.