somebody interesting (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

Angle of Repose

…(6) I am not going to give up this business of Grandmother’s papers and write a book on “somebody interesting.” Rodman pretends to be afraid that out of sentiment I will waste what he flatteringly calls major talents (he disparages history but was touchingly proud when I won the Bancroft Prize) on a nobody.