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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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cambridge :
Harvard University Press,
2008.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvjf9wk8 |
Obsah:
- 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.