How to do biography : a primer /

Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer's craft.

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Kaituhi matua: Hamilton, Nigel
Hōputu: Licensed eBooks
Reo:Ingarihi
I whakaputaina: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Urunga tuihono:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=282803
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • 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.