Mental Library: Lenses: Biographical*

Hello, Friends!

It's good to be back! I'm sorry I've been so behind on posts lately. I do not have a ton of time to write posts due to other circumstances.

Anyways, today we are looking at the Biographical critical lens. The biographical lens is similar to the Historical lens, but instead of looking at how the time period when the book was written affected it, you look at how the author's life affected the work.

I don't have a specific example for today, but you can look at:

• Events in the author's life

This means tragic events, such as deaths, happy events, such as weddings, etc.

• The author's views of certain subjects

So, if the author lived during the war, did his/her view of the war accidentally creep into his/her writing? Or was it on purpose?

What books have you read that would be interesting to analyze with the biographical lens?

Spruce Nogard

*Post actually written on June 23rd. See here for details.

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