The Biographer's Art

by Jeffrey Meyers

Leon Edel has recently noted that there exists, I am sorry to say, no criticism of biography worthy of the name. Reviewers and critics have learned how to judge plays, poems, novels--but they reveal their helplessness in the face of a biography. The Biographer's Art, by concentrating on the aesthetics of the genre, responds to the need for serious criticism of life-writing. This book is both a history of the genre and a substantial analysis of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941533522
• ISBN13: 9780941533522
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"