A Bio of Elvis, from Writer Bobbie Ann Mason

NPR

Published January 10, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Bob Edwards talks with writer Bobbie Ann Mason about her new biography of Elvis Presley, part of the Penguin Lives series. Mason says she started out thinking other people might have better handled the fame Elvis faced. But she finished the project realizing nobody could've handled it any better.

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