The Biography I Want to Read

If you were to write a nonfiction book, what would your topic be?

As a technical writer I wrote literally thousands of nonfiction pages. I mean, I thought they were nonfiction while I was writing them, or that they would one day be nonfiction. Because I wrote about products long before the products were completely finished, this wasn't always true, but I tried very, very hard.

But they weren't about topics I would have picked on my own. Who exactly would spend their spare time writing the...