Books by Meryle Secrest

2. Meryle Secrest, Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject .  A highly entertaining quasi-autobiography, focusing on her work on the nine different biographies she wrote of some very different people.  As far as I can tell, Secrest is 95 years old and living in the Washington, D.C. area — hope I run into her at Mama Chang some day.  Though I suspect she lives in Bethesda.