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Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography - Softcover

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Hamilton, Ian

 
9780571281671: Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0571281672 ISBN 13: 9780571281671
Verlag: Faber, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Literary biography is an endlessly fascinating form not least because of the fierce controversies that attend the question of how much of a writers real life ought to be related to readers. Ian Hamilton a first-rate biographer who encountering his share of adversity in writing the life of J.D. Salinger is the perfect chronicler of such controversies in this brilliant study first published in 1992 which charts the course of literary biography from Donne and Shakespeare to Plath and Larkin.

Such a compelling read. Antonia Fraser Times

Lively and informative powerfully and humorously written. Anthony Burgess Observer

Surely the funniest book ever written on the doom-laden issue of posthumous literary fame. Jonathan Keates Independent

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ian Hamilton was born in 1938, in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and educated at Darlington Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford. In 1962, he founded the influential poetry magazine, the Review, and he was later editor of the New Review. He also wrote biographies and journalism, mainly about literature and football. He died in 2001.

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Verlag
Faber
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0571281672
ISBN 13 
9780571281671
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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