Telling Lives, the Biographer's ArtUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1981 - 151 páginas Seven of the most honored biographers of our time--Pulizer Prize winners Justin Kaplan and Barbara Tuchman, National Book Award recipient Theodore Rosengarten, and esteemed literary critics Leon Edel, Dorris Kearns, Geoffrey Wolff, and Alfred Kazin--examine the joys, limitations, and challenges of defining a life. For the very first time, biographers interpret the art of biography. |
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