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INTERVIEWER
[Henry] James was one of those people who feared his biographer and who sought to foil him, right?
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Well, James was a secretive person; he tried to frustrate future biographers by burning all the letters he received, but he couldn’t burn those he had sent to others. I soon discovered everybody saved them because they were so warm and written in such an inimitable style. James invited his future biographers to seek him out in what he called the “invulnerable granite” of his art. That’s so Jamesian—the “invulnerable granite.”
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