A WRITER AT LARGE: Confessions of a long-distance biographer It was only meant to take two years. But in the end it took ROBERT SKIDELSKY 30 years to complete his life of John Maynard Keynes: nearly half the time it took his subject to live it. He explains why the great economist has absorbed so much of his life

From: The Independent on Sunday (London, England) | Date: November 23, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

It is no secret that I have spent a large chunk of my life writing about the economist John Maynard Keynes. In 1973, a few months after my son Edward was born, he got a postcard from my mother-in-law. She clearly believed in encouraging early habits of reading. It was of Gwen Raverat's famous watercolour of Keynes as a young man. "This is a gentleman whom you and Mummy and Daddy will soon grow to hate v. enormously I expect. He looks a bit furtive to me." My son Edward is now 30.

My original 1970 contract with Macmillan was to write a single- volume 150,000 word biography to be delivered ...

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