[MD] Biography as Literature

[John Carl]

Literature is a paradox in that it's a triumph of concentration and
willpower by an individual, but also very much a collective creation. The
yearning of large groups of people create what physicists might call "a
field effect." Writers are simply the individuals, among these groups, whose
gift is language, so that when they contemplate the "field effect" that
everybody is feeling, we get to read about it.

David James Duncan