Current Biography Yearbook : 1982 - Charles Moritz Book

*yawn* This book took me months to read. It was not the most interesting biography, even though it attempted to be very informative. Butcher did not always seem fair to me in his portrayal of Verne. He would make allowances for his contradictory statements and then assume later that such statements had to be taken for face value. While I agree that Verne is too complex to categorize and dismiss as only science fiction or only adventure writer, I believe reading him as a member of all these groups is more useful than removing him entirely from fields that have been influenced by his work. He did belong to scientific communities, and his Paris in the Twentieth Century gives some remarkable commentary on the dangers of technological progress. Not a fan of this one, which is rare for me.