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The Sunday Read: ‘The Ghost Writer’
The Daily
The Life of a Roth Biographer
philip roth paid over six thousand dollars in lawyers fees to force ira nadell, an american academic who now teaches in canada, to delete one sentence which said that roth had anxieties about being emotionally engulfed by a woman. In twenty ten he engaged hermione lee, the biographer of wolf and wharton but soon regretted that choice. It grated on him that she could not start until finishing her book on penelope fitzgerald. He did not want to be remembered throughout posterity as a person who didn't like women. And there was something else. When i asked wiley if the estate would sue miller for talking to me,
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