[applause]
>> robert richardson is next in
the 30th annual key west
seminar in florida.
he has written on henry david
thoreau and ralph waldo emerson.
he delivered his speech titled
"in search of lost time"
biography and fiction.
>> good morning.
stacy schiff who is a wonderful
biographer among others
cleopatra recently observed that
biographers all have to lives.
okay in the back?
can you hear?
in one round she says to
biographers, you are moving
forward in ignorance.
in the other you are moving
backward with something
resembling omniscience.
but what she doesn't say is that
along with the illusion of
something like omniscience a