| Author: | Carl Rollyson | ISBN: | 9781504029896 |
| Publisher: | Open Road Distribution | Publication: | June 28, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Open Road Distribution | Language: | English |
| Author: | Carl Rollyson |
| ISBN: | 9781504029896 |
| Publisher: | Open Road Distribution |
| Publication: | June 28, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Open Road Distribution |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
