Virginia Woolf's Nose: Essays on Biography

by Hermione Lee

Book Overview

What choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate likeness of a private life from the few articles that linger after death? How do we choose what gets left out? This intriguing and witty collection of essays by an internationally acclaimed biographer looks at how biography deals with myths and legends, what goes missing and what can't be proved in the story of a life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691130442
• ISBN13: 9780691130446
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.5"