LIFESCAPES A Biographer's Search for the Soul

Since 2003, Ann Wroe has written and edited obituaries for THE ECONOMIST. In this audiobook she describes the challenges of creating a life in words and delivers its blend of memoir, poetry, philosophical inquiry, and biography in a distinctly British accent. It begins with the story of a famous carp. Her anecdotes have unique insights: Playwright Arthur Miller was a woodworker; Raoul Wallenberg, the Swede who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis, is memorialized by sculptures of his briefcase in Budapest and New York; French mime Marcel Marceau invented his speechless alter ego, Bip the Clown, in reaction to the horrors of WWII. Curiously, very few women are included in the portraits. A fascinating listen. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2025]