How To Do Biography
A Primer
Published on 1. July 2009
400 pages
978-0-674-03821-9 (ISBN)
Description
Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer's craft.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03821-9 (9780674038219)
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Content
Contents Introduction I. Getting Started 1. The Task of Biography 2. What Is Your Agenda? 3. Defining Your Audience 4. Researching Your Subject 5. The Shape of a Life II. Composing a Life-Story 6. The Starting Point 7. Birthing Your Subject 8. Childhood and Youth 9. Love Stories 10. Life's Work 11. The Twilight Years 12. Ending Your Story III. Variations on a Theme 13. Autobiography and Memoirs 14. Memoir 15. Truth--and Its Consequences 16. The Afterlife Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
