In this 1995 edition of HoCoPoLitSo's The Writing Life, Pulitzer nominated writer and critic Francine du Plessix Gray speaks with David Levering Lewis, the author of biographies of W. E. B. DuBois and Martin Luther King, Jr. Lewis says a biographer initiates trust with the reader by being both ruthless and candid about the subject. Lewis talks about divisions in the African-American community and compares them to the split between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois. Class divisions, Lewis says, are much greater than in DuBois's time. He thinks the "talented tenth" see themselves too much as privileged victims because of their problems associated with color and slavery; they fail to see that the greater issue is the economic problems of industrial democracy.
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