Biography as High Adventure: Life-Writers Speak on Their Art

Book Overview

In this volume ten distinguished biographers discuss the principles and practices of their craft.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870235141
• ISBN13: 9780870235146
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A fine collection of essays

These ten previously published essays may pique the interest of prospective "life-writers," although a majority of these pieces tend toward the theoretical rather than the practical--a circumstance no doubt arising from the fact that six treat the lives of literary figures. Although the writing is at least solid and is sometimes lively, my own preference in a collection of essays about biographical writing is the more engaging (and nearly contemporary) collection, William Zinsser, ed., Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography (New York: American Heritage, 1986).