![]() Amazingly, and unhelpfully, Salinger replies. ![]() Salinger and informs him that he has become Hamilton’s latest subject: would the notoriously reclusive novelist mind answering some questions, could he take a visit? Hamilton doesn’t expect an answer nor does he want one, since he plans ‘a kind of Quest for Corvo, with Salinger as quarry’. Ian Hamilton, noted biographer of Robert Lowell, writes to J.D. Now consider a more sophisticated version of the Robinson technique. Most of us will probably have no difficulty in finding this crude, pushy and – let’s use the word for a change – wrong. Your two options are you co-operate with me or you don’t.’ The next thing is to make him see it’s in his interest to co-operate. This book is going to be written, I have a publisher and I’m getting near being able to write something. He may say: ‘I don’t want this biography.’ I say to him: ‘That is not one of your options. What I usually do is get two or three months’ research under my belt before I go to see the guy. ![]() ![]() Listen to Jeffrey Robinson, American biographer of figures such as Sheikh Yamani, describing how he goes to work: ![]()
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