“Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless you find compelling evidence that departs from the accepted wisdom. A biography for young people calls for the demanding art of distillation, the art of storytelling, and your responsibility is to stick as closely as possible to the documented record.” PeopleWritingArtPurposeResponsibilityEvidenceAcceptedStorytelling Author:Russell Freedman
“Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or from a Lincoln scholar writing an academic book on Lincoln. Each of these writers has a different audience and different goals. That's obvious.” WritingBookDifferentGoalResponsibilityAudienceObviousAcademicScholar Author:Russell Freedman
