In every biography, at least two people are involved. First, obviously, the individual who is the subject of the book, the person whose life we are about to enter. Still Point of the Turning World But second—almost as important—is the biographer. Who is writing this book? What beliefs, motivations, and biases do they bring into it? And to what extent does their own construction of ideas and events help us understand another person’s existence, rather than obscure it?