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Carrie Courogen discusses writing the biography of a hidden genius

I hate to make this about myself, but this is my newsletter and I swear there’s a reason I’m going to mention that there was a time in my life when I believed I was destined to write not just a biography, but the biography of John Hughes. At the time, he was a filmmaker who was still living but had mostly backed away from the public eye; I was a young w…