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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主要作者: Rollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund) (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2016]
在線閱讀:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1197380
書本目錄:
  • 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.