Joshua M. Greene: On Balancing Poetry and Conciseness in Biographies
Popular lecturer and biographer Joshua M. Greene shares how he handles writing a biography that is both accurate and concise while still illuminating the subject s personality.
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Apr 5, 2021
Joshua M. Greene is a popular lecturer on Holocaust history and an author whose biographies have sold more than a half-million copies worldwide. Greene’s groundbreaking book on the Dachau war crimes trials,
Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor, was deemed “riveting history writing at its best” by Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian for CNN. His renowned work on survivor testimony,