Reading a backward biography backwardSourced
To follow an Edison biography, a reviewer started at its last chapter.
Edmund Morris's 2019 biography Edison runs from the inventor's death back to his birth. NPR's Scott Detrow found that order confusing and read the book backward, from its final chapter to its first.
The reader reversed the author's reversal.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-02