Hamilton, Nigel.

How to do biography : a primer / Nigel Hamilton. - Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2008. - viii, 379 p. ; 19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-367) and index.

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.

9780674027961 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0674027965 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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GBA819755 bnb

014524530 Uk


Biography as a literary form.
Biography--Research--Methodology.
Autobiography--Authorship.
Biografía como forma literaria.
Biografía--Investigación--Metodología
Autobiografía--Autoría.
Biografía.
Autobiografía--Técnicas.

PN 145 / H219h 2008

808/.06692