I’ve been getting into reading more biographies, and for the most part, it’s been great, but there’s always a lingering thought in my head asking: how much of this is real? I remember large phases of my life, and I get that a biographer would interview people around them/take countless hours trying to remember the past, but how can you remember so many things in such great detail?
Interviews, reading stories in newspapers and magazines, if you are a politician, there are your ‘official papers,’ which are usually ‘gifted’ to a university or if you’re a president, your library/presidential center.
Journals and diaries and moving into the future peoples social media accounts, youtube, personal websites, photo sharing websites.