Bibleminded place. Partly because we read the crucible in high school. Which we can talk about human half the people i have spoken to in the last few weeks descend from the families affected in 1692 were when they were in high school. Partly because it has such resonance. Brian when you were here four years ago for cleopatra, you were talking about this book. I want to look at a minute. Stacy something reassuring about a biography, an obvious structure most of the time. An obvious orthodox structure. A beginning, middle, and end. And delicious pleasure of killing off your subject. It is a particularly gratifying kind of work. Brian what year . Stacy a good question, 1994. The next book about vera nabokov, the wife of the writer. Best known for lolita, and that was the portrait of a marriage the third book about. Ben franklin and his years in france. Very difficult to research but a thorough pleasure. And changing tasks, cleopatra. One of the blessings of biography is it you do not have
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