| Description |
xvi, 182 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-176) and index. |
| Contents |
Culture of biography / Justin Kaplan -- Biography-the "Scarlet Experiment" / Antony Alpers -- Those wonderful youths and maidens, my reviewers / N. John Hall -- Necrophiliac art? / Martin Stannard -- Read that countenance / Catherine Aird -- Reflections on writing the Plath biography / Linda Wagner-Martin -- Problems and pratfalls of a literary biographer / Russell Fraser -- Red room : Stephen Crane and me / Linda H. Davis -- Discovering Kingsley Amis / |
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Dale Salwak -- Spinning straw into gold / Diane Wood Middlebrook -- On being witness / Katherine Ramsland -- Private and public lives / Natasha Spender -- Mather, Poe, Houdini / Kenneth Silverman -- Breaking in / Andrew Motion -- Shilling lives : an interview / Anthony Curtis -- Authorized biographer / Eric Jacobs -- Sharing the role : the biographer as sleuth / Margaret Lewis -- Reflections of a biographer / Elizabeth Longford -- Biographer's |
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revenge / John Halperin. |
| Subject |
Biography as a literary form.
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Authors -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Salwak, Dale.
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| ISBN |
0877455538 |
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