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Article published In: The Afterlife of the Life History
[Journal of Narrative and Life History 2:1] 1992
► pp. 11–18

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Telling Lives: The Aftermath

 | Department of Englis University of New Mexico
Published online: 4 August 2015
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Abstract This article unveils the aftermath of writing life narratives for publication. As biographer of Pete Seeger and Aldous Huxley, I draw on my experiences to categorize response from family, community, and subject. The thesis is that such anticipated response inevitably shapes the work, before publication, via prior censorship. (Oral history; oral biography interviewing; author/subject
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