The Biographer's Art
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ISBN: 0941533522 / Publisher: New Amsterdam Books, June 1989
This history of the art of biography and case-by-case analysis of some of the great literary biographies, from Johnson's Life of Savage (1744) to Edel's monumental Henry James (1953-1972), confirms the idea that life-writing is a flourishing art form.
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Contributors present a history of the art of biography and a case-by-case analysis of some of the great literary biographies, among them: Johnson's Life of Savage (1744), Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791), Strachey's Eminent Victorians (1918), Ellmann's James Joyce (1959), Painter's Marcel Proust (1959, 1965), Edel's Henry James (1953-1972). No bibliography. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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