New directions in biography
Subtitle: essays
By: by Phyllis Auty ... [et al.] ; edited, and with a foreword by Anthony M. Friedson.
Contributors: Auty, Phyllis.; Friedson, Anthony M.; University of Hawaii at Manoa.; International Symposium on Biography (1981 : Honolulu, Hawaii)
Series: A Biography monograph
Publisher: Published for the Biographical Research Center by the University Press of Hawaii
Published: 1981
Place of publication: [Honolulu, Hawaii]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Biography as a literary form -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Edited papers presented at the International Symposium on Biography, organized by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1981.
Table of contents: title: Keynote address: biography and the science of man / Leon Edel; title: Literary and historical biography / Michael Holroyd; title: Problems of writing a biography of a communist leader / Phyllis Auty; title: Group biography: challenges and methods / Margot Peters; title: Biography: the Black South African connection / N.C. Manganyi; title: Five types of contemporary French biography / Gabriel Merle; title: The curious relationship between biography and autobiography in Japan / Shoichi Saeki.