Editing Nadine Gordimer (section)

===Unauthorised biography===
[[Ronald Suresh Roberts]] published a biography of Gordimer, ''No Cold Kitchen'', in 2006. She had granted Roberts interviews and access to her personal papers, with an understanding that she would authorise the biography in return for a right to review the manuscript before publication. However, Gordimer and Roberts failed to reach an agreement over his account of the illness and death of Gordimer's husband Reinhold Cassirer and an affair Gordimer had in the 1950s, as well as criticism of her views on the [[Israel–Palestine conflict]]. Gordimer disowned the book, accusing Roberts of breach of trust. Publishers [[Bloomsbury Publishing]] in London and [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] in New York subsequently withdrew from the project.<ref name="Donadio">{{cite news| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/books/review/31donadio.html| title = Nadine Gordimer and the Hazards of Biography| first = Rachel| last = Donadio| newspaper = New York Times| date = 31 December 2006| access-date = 12 April 2007}}</ref> Suresh subsequently criticised Gordimer for her decision and her stances on other issues.<ref name="Donadio" />