Title: The biographer's craft /
Authors: Lomask, Milton.
Date: 1986
Publisher: Harper & Row,
Physical description: ix, 194 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: C
Contents: Your job -- Selecting and testing a subject -- Research: tools and mechanics -- Research: the biographer as detective -- Form: writing in clusters and other procedures -- Form as beginning, middle, and end -- Form as summary and scene -- Of style and tone -- Discovering the hero -- Revealing the hero -- Autobiography -- Regional biography -- Psychobiography -- Handling quotes -- Handling notes and bibliography -- Going to market.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Biography as a literary form.