02916nam 2200673Ia 450 991077801640332120230721022353.00-674-03821-510.4159/9780674038219(CKB)1000000000787165(OCoLC)503446230(CaPaEBR)ebrary10309096(SSID)ssj0001145839(PQKBManifestationID)12456217(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001145839(PQKBWorkID)11122948(PQKB)10271596(SSID)ssj0000173806(PQKBManifestationID)11170331(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173806(PQKBWorkID)10174141(PQKB)10708431(MiAaPQ)EBC3300023(Au-PeEL)EBL3300023(CaPaEBR)ebr10309096(DE-B1597)574622(DE-B1597)9780674038219(OCoLC)1257325010(EXLCZ)99100000000078716520071116d2008 uy 0engur||||||||txtccrHow to do biography[electronic resource] a primer /Nigel HamiltonCambridge Harvard University Press20081 online resource (379 pages.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-06615-4 0-674-02796-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-367) and index.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 -- IndexFollowing 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.Biography as a literary formBiographyResearchMethodologyAutobiographyAuthorshipBiography as a literary form.BiographyResearchMethodology.AutobiographyAuthorship.808/.06692Hamilton Nigel444102MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778016403321How to do biography764758UNINA