“Biography Across the Digitized Globe contains many excellent essays both nuanced and provocative. […] [It] has been well-edited with a vivid portrait of Hans Renders in the Foreword and a concise Introduction that nicely sets the table. […] This festschrift is itself a microhistory of debates that has preoccupied academia since the late 1960s. A professorial conflict between a traditional form of biography and a more diverse, socially committed approach to documenting individual lives mirrors larger, often fiercer ideological debates in both the social sciences and humanities.”-D. L. LeMahieu, Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois, in Life Writing, 24 Jul 2025The expertly edited “Biography Across the Digitized Globe” is a kind of battle for recognition of biographers and their subjects that AI may tend to usurp but that cannot be silenced so long as biographers, like Mr. Renders, continue to pursue the genre on the frontlines of all media. - Carl Rollyson, 4 April 2025 in The New York Sun
