Advice from the biographers of Ayn Rand, Clarence Darrow, and Mickey Mantle on what happens when the reporting is done and it's time to write. Mantle biographer Jane Leavy tells how she realized after stalking superstar running back Earl Campbell that the story wasn't what he said but how he reacted to the attention. John Aloysius Farrell discusses what he left out of his Darrow book, and why. Anne Heller talks about how Rand's mystery drove her reporting.
June 14, 2011