Ultimately Fiction: Design in Modern American Literary Biography

by Dennis Petrie

During the past 25 years, a tremendous boom has occurred in the publishing of biographies, especially literary biographies that is, lives of creative writers. Yet, according to this critical study, literary biographers have most often focused their efforts merely upon presenting historical facts while being generally unaware of artistic possibilities in the subgenre. Criticism of biography frequently quotes Desmond MacCarthy's dictum that the biographer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0911198628
• ISBN13: 9780911198621
• Release Date: June 1981
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 240 Pages