Ann Wroe

"In Lifescapes, the acclaimed biographer and obituarist Ann Wroe reflects on a career spent pursuing life -- a process, as she sees it, not of chronological narration but of trying to seize souls. In a dazzlingly original blend of memoir, biography, observation and poetry, she reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing this phenomenon on the page. Through her experiences and those of others, through people she has known, studied or merely...