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Whittemore in this companion volume to Pure lives probes the often complex motives behind the relationships of modern biographers to their subjects. Examines among others, Thomas Carlyle, Leslie Stephen, Sigmund Freud, Leon Edel, and Richard Ellmann as biographers.

Shimmering Images teaches the aspiring memoirist how to locate key memories using Lisa's technique for finding, linking, and fleshing out those vibrant recollections of important moments and situations. Shimmering Images will address: the difference between memoir and autobiography; how to claim your voice; the art of storytelling; honesty, truth, and compassion in writing; authentic dialogue and the need for specificity. Readers will learn how to...

Chronicles the historical evolution of the biography genre from ancient times to the early twenty-first century, considering questions about the purpose of biographies, their audience, the challenges of writing biographies, and their role in Western culture.

From the Publisher: Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is an undisputed master-the art of biography. Here Lee considers the cultural and historical background of different types of biographies, looks at the factors that affect biographers,...

In recent years, the memoir has been celebrated as our liveliest literary genre and condemned as the confessional mode of a self-obsessed society. Now Jill Ker Conway, herself the author of two highly praised volumes of autobiography, turns her attention to some of the most notable examples of the form since Saint Augustine wrote his Confessions sixteen centuries ago. From the luminous spirituality of twelfth-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen to...