The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography

by Scott Donaldson

In The Impossible Craft, Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate. Writers are accustomed to controlling the narrative, and notoriously opposed to allowing intruders on their turf. They make bonfires of their papers, encourage others to destroy correspondence, write their own autobiographies, and appoint family or friends to protect their reputations as official...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271065281
• ISBN13: 9780271065281
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"