Partly because I had just turn bac...

Partly because I had just turn backed from a seminar on autobiography and ethics, when putting together this issue of Biography, I couldn't help noticing that all three of the essays raised questions about what was appropriate or questionable in the practice of life writing. As he ofttimes does, G. Thomas Couser introduces us to a fascinating limit case involving highly vulnerable make subordinates and then carefully assesses the writer's succes in representing individuals whose extremely nature makes the possibility of ethical violation almost unavoidable. Joseph Phelan's essay point outs us how ...