Table of Contents Acknowledgments vi Preface 1 Introduction: Resolutely Indiscreet 3 1: Richard Ellmann and the Advent of Ruthless Biography 7 2: Picking a Victim 12 3: Becoming a Biographer: Marilyn Monroe Made Me Do It 17 4: Hazarding Lillian Hellman: Discovering the Virtues of Fair Use 27 5: Martha and Me: The Promise and Peril of Unauthorized Biography 39 6: The Biographer Who Came In from the Cold: Becoming Rebecca West's Authorized Biographer 77 7: Susan Sontag: The Making of a Biography 102 8: Becoming Jill Craigie's Deauthorized Biographer and Michael Foot's Boswell 137 9: Intermission: From Picking a Victim to Pontificating on Subjects 185 10: Another Sylvia Plath Biography? 196 11: Biography, My Father, Dana Andrews and Me 203 12: Amy Lowell, the Silent Woman and the Biographical Deficit 208 13: Missed Connections 214 14: Work in Progress: William Faulkner 227 Index 239.