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Format: 1 online resource (400 p.)

ISBN: 9780674038219

Content: Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer's craft.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , I. Getting Started -- , 1. The Task of Biography -- , 2. What Is Your Agenda? -- , 3. Defining Your Audience -- , 4. Researching Your Subject -- , 5. The Shape of a Life -- , II. Composing a Life-Story -- , 6. The Starting Point -- , 7. Birthing Your Subject -- , 8. Childhood and Youth -- , 9. Love Stories -- , 10. Life’s Work -- , 11. The Twilight Years -- , 12. Ending Your Story -- , III. Variations on a Theme -- , 13. Autobiography and Memoirs -- , 14. Memoir -- , 15. Truth—and Its Consequences -- , 16. The Afterlife -- , Notes -- , Selected Bibliography -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674038219

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674038219

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Format: 1 online resource (392 pages)

ISBN: 9780674038219

Content: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I . Getting Started -- 1. The Task of Biography -- 2. What Is Your Agenda? -- 3. Defining Your Audience -- 4. Researching Your Subject -- 5. The Shape of a Life -- II . Composing a Life-Story -- 6. The Starting Point -- 7. Birthing Your Subject -- 8. Childhood and Youth -- 9. Love Stories -- 10. Life's Work -- 11. The Twilight Years -- 12. Ending Your Story -- III. Variations on a Theme -- 13. Autobiography and Memoirs -- 14. Memoir -- 15. Truth-and Its Consequences -- 16. The Afterlife -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674027961

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780674027961

Language: English

URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3300023

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Format: 1 online resource (379 pages.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-674-03821-5

Content: Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer's craft.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , I. Getting Started -- , 1. The Task of Biography -- , 2. What Is Your Agenda? -- , 3. Defining Your Audience -- , 4. Researching Your Subject -- , 5. The Shape of a Life -- , II. Composing a Life-Story -- , 6. The Starting Point -- , 7. Birthing Your Subject -- , 8. Childhood and Youth -- , 9. Love Stories -- , 10. Life’s Work -- , 11. The Twilight Years -- , 12. Ending Your Story -- , III. Variations on a Theme -- , 13. Autobiography and Memoirs -- , 14. Memoir -- , 15. Truth—and Its Consequences -- , 16. The Afterlife -- , Notes -- , Selected Bibliography -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-06615-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-02796-5

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674038219