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A writer's background is just one of many influences fuelling their imaginations.
Publishers will often use a writer's background to promote a book.
In the absence of a conversational partner who shares the writer's background and who can furrow her brows or break in and ask for clarification when he stops making sense, good writing depends an ability to imagine a generic reader and empathise about what she already knows and how she interprets the flow of words in real time.
The significance of a writer's background, his context, is that of a point of departure: art is an escape, a flight of speech to the printed page, where the reader's imagination is free to encounter the writer's; biography moves in the opposite direction, dissolving text back into conversation, returning the writer to his "household", reincarnating his family, bringing him back to earth.
While Settle's work was published generally without his annotations and notes, the writer's background here is unique and Settle does have an excellent bibliography.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com