The Cloud of Knowing

Award-winning memoirist and biographer Benjamin Taylor turns his eye toward the biographer’s art and the nature of knowing in this riveting “biomystery.”

Francie Bogenschine is an independent, willful ninety-year-old Greenwich Village widow who embodies the great artistic heart of downtown New York. Her husband, the impassioned composer and eccentric Rafael Bogenschine, leapt to his death in 1967 at the height of his fame. Francie has fended off would-be biographers for decades. She finally ...