# Wolf bio

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Dec 2012*

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### Stephen Case
*17 Dec 2012, 17:53*

> A biography is hard work: who will fund the years of work for a really
> good one? How would one convince Wolfe to cooperate and that one isn't
> a flake?
> 
> Anyone who needs some emails on a mailing list to motivate them
> probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
> 
> --
> gwern
> http://www.gwern.net

Absolutely. I was hoping to hear about some of you Wolfe scholars having
something like this in the works. Or examples of other bios of speculative
fiction writers that would be worth emulating (or at least reading).
Questions a biography of Wolfe would answer. Reasons it should be written.
Discussion.

Funding? Who funds Borski's books of essays?
-S

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