How do people writing biographies recall their lives in such detail. I barely remember my childhood just bits and pieces here and there. But nothing close to writing a book.

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How do people writing biographies recall their lives in such detail. I barely remember my childhood just bits and pieces here and there. But nothing close to writing a book.

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I think they do a LOT of research – local history, family, occupations and relationships, state of the world etc.

Maybe that’s precisely why they want to write the biography – to get to understand what they don’t remember or didn’t know.

I don’t think that many would do what you suggest