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A Bragging Humility by Fred Wilbur

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  “It is true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality.”                        —George Orwell “Why I Write” (1947)   Several months ago (23 September 2024) Miles Fowler wrote a Street Talk blog titled “The Thinly Disguised Autobiography” which provoked me to reflect on this “courageous or foolhardy” activity. Naturally, many writers entertain the notion of writing about themselves; personal experience being a writer’s primary resource. Autobiography differs from biography in that the author is still alive! I say this flippantly as biography can be of a person alive … Continue reading A Bragging Humility by Fred Wilbur