How to do biography : a primer / Nigel Hamilton.
"It is not surprising that biography is one of the most popular literary genres of our day What is remarkable is that there is no accessible guide for how to write one. Now, following his recent Biography: A Brief History (Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles th...
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Harvard University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.