Biographers' Bereavement and Other Factors in Inadvertent Deathbed Distortions: The Biography Deaths of Proust and Freud

Examining the biographees' deaths in Proust and Freud biographies reveals inadvertent loss of the biographers' scholarly standards in this deathbed context. Information about the biographers themselves discloses factors contributing to this phenomenon, including bereavement as the biography is terminating, authors' experiences with family deaths, and sanctioning a particular ending for the biographee.