ABSTRACT
Biography, Harold Nicholson, English biographer and historian, once commented, is “always a collaboration between the author and his subject; always there must be a collaboration of one temperament in the mirror of the other.” The aim of the biographer, he argued further, should be “not to conceal defects or lamentable episodes but to refer to them in such a manner as will indicate to the attentive reader that these shadows existed; to portray, that is, the prominent imperfections as well as the excellences of his hero.”
