Abstract
ABSTRACTTo research a contemporary subject, the biographer must have contacts with family members, and these interactions trigger old feelings — both the biographer's and the family members'. Conscious or unconscious, these feelings influence the kind of information given by family members and the way biographers use it, whether in writing or other media. Transference and countertransference in the research process are explored in this article in the context of a struggle between the biographer Valerie Yow and her subject's daughter. Yow admits close identification with the working-class writer Betty Smith and explores the effects of this and of Smith's daughter's transference, as well as her own, on the research process.
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