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How to do biography : a primer / Nigel Hamilton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamilton, Nigel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography as a literary form.
- Biography--Research--Methodology.
- Biography.
- Autobiography--Authorship.
- Autobiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 pages.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-367) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674038219
- 0674038215
- OCLC:
- 503446230
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