![]() In Stuart: A Life Backwards, published in 2005, Masters set out to explore the life of a wholly unknown man he had met begging on a street in Cambridge. ![]() What then was the point? There were in fact two points: first that “any subject that is good for fiction is good for biography”, and second that modern biographers should not follow other people’s lives without revealing their own. They were, he added, “missing the point”. T he trouble with most 20th-century biographers was that they focused on well‑known people “pounding through facts from grandma to the grave”, wrote Alexander Masters. ![]()
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