Dubin's Lives

A compassionate and wry commedia exploring the secret self, the obsessions of biography and love With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon, Dubin's Lives (1979) is a rich, subtle book and a moving tale of love and marriage. Its protagonist, prize-winning biographer William Dubin, learns from the lives he writes about and shares, as well as his own. In his later middle age, he seeks his secret self, and the obsession of biography is supplanted by the obsession of love for a woman half his age who