Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography - Hardcover

Holroyd, Michael

 
9781582431505: Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1582431507 ISBN 13: 9781582431505
Verlag: Counterpoint, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Works on Paper is a selection by one of today's leading biographers from his lectures, essays, and reviews written over the last quarter of a century—mainly on the craft of biography and autobiography, but also covering what Michael Holroyd describes as his "enthusiasms and alibis".

Opening with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non–fiction writing, the book goes on to examine the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction and of fiction in biography, and the revelations of some extravagant autobiographers, from Osbert Sitwell to Quentin Crisp—to which he adds some adventures of his own, in particular an important and unpublished piece The Making of GBS, a riveting story of internecine literary warfare.

The book ends with a series of satires, celebrations, apologias and polemics which throw light not only on Michael Holroyd's progress as a biographer, but also his record as an embattled campaigner in the field of present–day literary politics.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and educated at Eton College. His lives of Hugh Kingsmill, Lyton Strachey, Augustus John and George Bernard Shaw have established him as one of the most influential biographers of modern times. His family autobiography, Basil Street Blues (1999) garnered the greatest number of non–fiction and end–of–year critics' choices that year. A past chairman of the Society of Authors, the Royal Society of Literature and Book Trust, past president of English PEN and a former member of the Arts Council, Michael Holroyd has lectured around the world for the British Council and at literary festivals. He is married to the novelist Margaret Drabble and lives in London and Somerset.

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Verlag
Counterpoint
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1582431507
ISBN 13 
9781582431505
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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