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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455374103321

Autore

Hamilton Nigel

Titolo

How to do biography [[electronic resource] ] : a primer / / Nigel Hamilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Harvard University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-674-03821-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (379 pages.)

Disciplina

808/.06692

Soggetti

Biography as a literary form

Biography - Research - Methodology

Autobiography - Authorship

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-367) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.