Via Prose&Cons: Amazing Author, Horrible Person

 On one of the many lists I am on there has been a discussion in recent days of whether or not readers want to know stuff about the author's personal life. Many have expressed a desire to know everything though there have been a few of us who have expressed the idea that all we care about is the book. We don't want to know and yet maybe some times we should. I had no idea about this issue and certainly would have quit reading Bradley if I had know this at the time.

Prose&Cons: Amazing Author, Horrible Person: Walter Breen wrote under the pen name J.Z. Eglinton in his book defending pedophilia. Despite being dead now for fifteen years, Marion ...