Writing Lives: Principia Biographica

by Leon Edel

Book Overview

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Henry James presents here a revision of his Literary Biography expanded with six further essays illuminating what he calls the New Biography--an approach that draws on the resources of psychoanalysis, the biographer's own subjectivity, and the skills of the novelist. Mr. Edel includes a history of the art of biography since Boswell, criticism of some of the best-known biographers, advice for the biographer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393303829
• ISBN13: 9780393303827
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"