BIOGRAPHER'S TALE, THE

Phineas G. Nanson, an English graduate student, begins researching the life of a famous and revered biographer named Scholes Destry-Scholes, finding out in the process that he distorted his subjects' lives and often made things up. In addition, Nanson discovers several parallels between his own life and that of Destry-Scholes, including his involvement with two women, one of them his own niece. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.