Telling lives, the biographer's art
By: by Leon Edel ... [et al.] ; edited by Marc Pachter.
Contributors: Edel, Leon, 1907-; Pachter, Marc.
Edition: [Paperback ed.].
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Biography as a literary form.
Notes: Originally published: Washington : New Republic Books, 1979 ; paperback edition published in 1981.
Table of contents: title: The biographer himself / Marc Patcher; title: The figure under the carpet / Leon Edel; title: The naked self and other problems / Justin Kaplan; title: Minor lives / Geoffrey Wolff; title: The self as history / Alfred Kazin; title: Angles of vision / Doris Kearns; title: Stepping over cockleburs / Theodore Rosengarten; title: Biography as a prism of history / Barbara E. Tuchman.