Lives and Letters : a history of literary biography in England and America / by Richard D. Altick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel), 1915-2008.

Contributor:

Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography as a literary form.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 438, xvii pages, 3 unnumbered pages

Edition:

[Second print.].

Manufacture:

Scranton, Pa : Composed, printed, and bound by The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc.], 1966.

Contents:

The Beginnings. Literary biography before its time; Johnson and Boswell

From Boswell to Strachey. The uses of biography; Poet and public; How much should a biographer tell?; The writing of nineteenth-century literary biography; From Froude to Strachey; Literary biography in America

The Modern Age. The Stracheyan revolution; The oath; The artist; The achievement of literary biography.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

"First edition published October 18, 1965. Second printing, July 1966."

On preliminary page [1] "Borzoi Books Fifty Years".

"The text of this book is set in Caledonia, a typeface designed by W(illiam) A(ddison) Dwiggins for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in 1939."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-438) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok December 1966 Philadelphia".