The impossible craft : literary biography /

"In The Impossible Craft, Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate. Writers are accustomed to controlling the narrative, and notoriously opposed to allowing intruders on their turf. They make bonfires of their papers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Donaldson, Scott, 1928-2020 (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015.
Series:Penn State series in the history of the book.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/j.ctv14gp3f1
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Topics in literary biography
  • The impossible craft
  • Case studies
  • The Cheever misadventure.