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Biography: An Annotated Bibliography

Carl Rollyson

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This is the only comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writing about biography. Rollyson, a biographer and scholar of biography, includes chapters on the history of biography (beginning in the Greco-Roman period and concluding with biographers such as Leon Edel and Richard Ellmann). Ample sections on psychobiography, the new feminist biography, and on biographers who appear in works of fiction, are also included. Cited in many recent books on the genre of biography, Biography: An Annotated Bibliography, is an essential research tool as well as a clearly written work for those wishing to browse through the commentary on this important genre.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
  • Publish Date: Sep 27th, 2016
  • Pages: 232
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.53in - 0.76lb
  • EAN: 9781504029971
  • Categories: • Bibliographies & Indexes• Reference

About the Author

Carl Rollyson has written biographies on Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Norman Mailer, Pablo Picasso, Rebecca West, and Susan Sontag. His titles include Biography Before Boswell, Reading Biography, Essays in Biography, Biography: An Annotated Bibliography, British Biography: A Reader, Lives of the Novelists, Female Icons: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag, Marie Curie, The Literacy Legacy of Rebecca West, and American Biography.

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Writer/Rider. Author of FALLEN LAND, RIVER OF KINGS, GODS OF HOWL MOUNTAIN, PRIDE OF EDEN, WINGWALKERS, and REDNECKS (@StMartinsPress). GA Author of the Year.

Thank to Faulkner biographer and @thenewyorksun book reviewer Carl Rollyson for having me on his podcast, A LIFE IN BIOGRAPHY. We had such a great conversation, and Carl has such incredible insights about the book, Faulkner, the life of the artist, and o… https://t.co/GFislaDS8e https://t.co/E8J2LCW9sD

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New Books in #AmericanStudies is an author-interview #podcast channel in the @NewBooksNetwork. 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/Kkv7MCmESD

As an activist, writer & speaker, Lucy Parsons embodied the most radical expression of the American civil rights battle, yet her life remains a mystery. Jacqueline Jones joins @LilianBarger to discuss her new #biography, GODDESS OF ANARCHY (@BasicBooks). http://newbooksnetwork.com/jacqueline-jones-goddess-of-anarchy-the-life-and-times-of-lucy-parsons-american-radical-basic-books-2017/ https://t.co/O2IPx96PEV

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