Biography
By: [editor, Bill Buford]
Contributors: Bellow, Saul; Atlas, James; García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-; Morrison, Blake; McEwen, Todd; Erdrich, Louise; Sante, Luc; Motion, Andrew; Holmes, Richard; Hamilton, Ian; Banville, John; Sage, Lorna
Series: Granta -- 41
Publisher: Granta
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780140140552
Subjects: Biography
Table of contents: title: Memoirs of a bootlegger's son / Saul Bellow; title: Starting out in Chicago (Saul Bellow) / James Atlas; title: Dreams for hire (Frau Frida) / Gabriel García Márquez; title: When did you last see your father? (Dr. Arthur Morrison) / Blake Morrison; title: A very young dancer (Moira) / Todd McEwen; title: The names of women (Virginia Grandbois, Elise Eliza McCloud, Justine Gourneau / Louise Erdrich; title: The contents of pockets (The Panther boys, George McAghon, Mrs. Cornelius, Miss Wheelan, Marion Hart, Gaspare Candella, Giuseppe Certona and one unidentified) / Luc Sante; title: Breaking in (Philip Larkin) / Andrew Motion; title: Among the tulips (James Boswell) / Richard Holmes; title: A colossal hoard (the descendants of James Boswell) / Ian Hamilton; title: Life and art (Jean Vaublin) / John Banville; title: Death of the author (Angela Carter) / Lorna Sage.