The high points are easy --- Pulitzer Prize winners joke that as soon as they are named they know what the headline is going to be on their obituary --- but I read most attentively for clues to the defeats and the flat-line periods, the inexplicable changes of heart and the twists of fate, the gambles and the unexpected consequences, the loose ends …
Life, as every biography and obit I have ever read confirms, is what happens when you are making other plans.