How to do biography : a primer /
Hamilton, Nigel.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-367) and index.
The task of biography -- What is your agenda? -- Defining your audience -- Researching your subject -- The shape of a life -- The starting point -- Birthing your subject -- Childhood and youth -- Love stories -- Life's work -- The twilight years -- Ending your story -- Autobiography and memoirs -- Memoir -- Truth--and its consequences -- The afterlife.
Biography as a literary form.
Biography
Autobiography