Confessions of a serial biographer /
"This memoir of a professional biographer's life tells the inside story of how he became interested in subjects and reveals the mechanics of the trade: how to assemble proposals for publishers, conduct interviews and archival research, and joust with editors, subjects and their literary es...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc.,
[2016]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1197380 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: resolutely indiscreet
- Richard Ellmann and the advent of ruthless biography
- Picking a victim
- Becoming a biographer: Marilyn Monroe made me do it
- Hazarding Lillian Hellman: discovering the virtues of fair use
- Martha and Me: the promise and peril of unauthorized biography
- The biographer who came in from the cold: becoming Rebecca West's authorized biographer
- Susan Sontag: the making of a biography
- Becoming Jill Craigie's deauthorized biographer and Michael Foot's Boswell
- Intermission: from picking a victim to pontificating on subjects
- Another biography of Sylvia Plath?
- Biography, my father, Dana Andrews and me
- Amy Lowell, the silent woman and the biographical deficit
- Missed connections
- Work in progress: William Faulkner.