Reading the biographies of my favorite authors has helped me to understand who they are and why they write/wrote the way they did. Sylvia Plath was the most difficult poet I had trouble understanding until I read her life story. Jack Kerouac was another author I understood when I read his bio.
William Shakespeare is the only person when I read his biography I ended up knowing less about. I'm sure there are others. I believe that biographies help me understand the era the author lived in.
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