Petty the biography nz news

Celebrity biographies have never been high on my TBR list. While I appreciate what a great number of celebrities have done during their careers, either for their industries or elsewhere, spending too much time with famous people takes the panache out of the day-to-day. That and the fact that celebrities (who are mostly not writers) seem to be able to sell their books to their picks of the Big Five publishers while the rest of the very talented author pool gets crumbs, or worse, can make the blood boil if one focuses on it for too long.

Still, research calls.

Writing a novel isn’t easy, and there are many things to handle with care and balance to write the kind of immersive novel readers want to read.

In alignment with the pragmati-learning process of reading better to write well, Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes was my number-three pick. And I’m not upset about it.

When I cracked open the cover, I was immediately swept into the work by Zanes’s writing prowess, a wr