Biographer David Marr (Patrick White: A Life; the Henson Case) explores what happens when our subjects live on beyond the grave, as documents emerge and fresh witnesses come forward revealing what was hidden when we were writing these lives. What do we do? Junk the book? Declare it finished and untouchable? Or take it apart and rewrite as fresh information comes to hand? "Dead is dead," said Gertrude Stein. "But dead is not done. Not over."