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