How to Do Biography - A Primer

Informationen zum Autor Nigel Hamilton is the author of prize-winning biographies of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and of John F. Kennedy. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Klappentext Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer¿s craft. Zusammenfassung Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer’s craft. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Introduction I. Getting Started * The Task of Biography * What Is Your Agenda? * Defining Your Audience * Researching Your Subject * The Shape of a Life II. Composing a Life-Story * The Starting Point * Birthing Your Subject * Childhood and Youth * Love Stories * Life's Work * The Twilight Years * Ending Your Story III. Variations on a Theme * Autobiography and Memoirs * Memoir * Truth--and Its Consequences * The Afterlife * Notes * Selected Bibliography * Acknowledgments * Index

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Hamilton
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2012
• EAN: 9780674066151
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06615-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 177 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Writing, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General