The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 5, 1922-1923, edited by Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott; Death & the Author: How D.H. Lawrence Died and Was Remembered, by David Ellis
The story of a life is also the story of a death, and one of the values of biography is that it enables us to die by proxy — a sort of rehearsal.
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