Kingston Writersfest : Writing Another’s Life with Merrily Weisbord

Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 1:00pm

Holiday Inn Waterfront : Martello Room
2 Princess Street
Kingston, ON
K7L 1A2

New Yorker writer and author Janet Malcolm says writing another’s life is like being a confidence man, “preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.” Is this true?

In this master class, Merrily Weisbord, author of the acclaimed biography/memoir, The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das, discusses strategies for getting close to a subject, the dilemma of conflicting loyalties to the subject and the book, and the legal and moral challenges in choosing what—and what not—to make public about someone else’s life. Limited enrolment.

General Admission: $25.00/$30.00 at the door.

More info: http://www.kingstonwritersfest.ca/events.php.