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The Biography Rush
Werner, M. R. | February 28, 1934 issue

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Author Emil Ludwig told reporters not long ago that he was abandoning biography, that it had become an industry. Ludwig should know, for it was he as much as any other one individual who helped to turn biography for a short moment of eternity into an industry. Whatever Ludwig's plans for the future may be, biography will remain of interest to mankind. Indeed, it would be a good thing for biography as a fine art if the recent extravagant interest in lives of great men should die down, for that interest stimulated too many writers not fitted for the work to write hastily about characters concerning whom they did not have sufficient material.

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LUDWIG, Emil; BIOGRAPHY; AUTHORS; ART; LITERATURE; BOOKS
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