| Description |
xv, 140 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Eric Homberger and John Charmley -- Only connect : biography and truth / Robert Skidelsky -- Writing lives / Ann Thwaite -- Writing political biography / Kenneth O. Morgan -- Lies and silences / Victoria Glendinning -- Confessions of an Irish revisionist / Ruth Dudley Edwards -- The art of biography / Robert Blake -- How I fell into biography / Michael Holroyd -- The biographer's chains / Hugh Brogan -- Neither morbid nor ordinary / Hilary Spurling -- Vivat allus ergo sum / Andrew Sinclair -- The telling life : some thoughts on literary biography / Malcolm Bradbury |
| Subject |
Biographers.
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Biography as a literary form.
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| Author |
Charmley, John, 1955-
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Homberger, Eric.
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| LC no. |
87019707 |
| ISBN |
0312013299 |
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