In the area of life writing in China, the biographer Nigel Hamilton is not a new name. His JFK: Reckless Youth was translated into Chinese in 1999 in Mainland China and has since been highly acclaimed. He was reviewed in the leading Chinese literature studies newspaper Literature and Art for his Biography: A Brief History in 2008. In the following interview with this distinguished biographer, which took place via email during July, 2015, Nigel Hamilton talks about how he looks at life writing.