| Description |
xvi, 182 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
A culture of biography / Justin Kaplan -- Biography, the "scarlet experiment" / Antony Alpers -- Those wonderful youths and maidens, my reviewers / N. John Hall -- The 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 -- The red room: Stephen Crane and me / Linda H. Davis -- Discovering Kingsley Amis / Dale Salwak -- Spinning straw into gold / Diane Wood Middlebrook -- On being a witness / Katherine Ramsland -- Private and public lives / Natasha Spender -- Mather, Poe, Houdini / Kenneth Silverman -- Breaking in / Andrew Motion -- Shilling lives: an interview / Anthony Curtis -- The authorized biographer / Eric Jacobs -- Sharing the role: the biographer as sleuth / Margaret Lewis -- Reflections of a biographer / Elizabeth Longford -- The biographer's revenge / John Halperin |
| Analysis |
Literature Special subjects Biography |
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Literature Special subjects Biography |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 174-176 |
| Subject |
Authors -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Biography as a literary form.
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| Author |
Salwak, Dale.
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| LC no. |
gb 96084099 |
| ISBN |
0333626397 |
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0333657462 (paperback) |
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