@JoyceCarolOates question for you, Joyce. How about bios not of artists--but of politicians or business leaders--say, Musk? For people whose actions can affect ten of millions, do you view the biographer's responsibility differently? Would revealing their dark pockets be a sine qua non?
@JoyceCarolOates and how about Zelda Fitzgerald? Her hubby stuck passages from her diaries directly into his novels, causing her to write the famous line in a newspaper article in the 20s, "Plagiarism begins at home." And as with Vivienne Eliot, she was stuffed into an insane asylum.
@JoyceCarolOates yep, there is a long tradition among men of accusing sexually abused women as being hysterical. Freudians for example did it for a full century!!
@jmart please don't insult 12 year-olds, many of whom have much better common sense than the prez and nearly all of whom exert much better control over their own dark impulses....