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Telling lives, the biographer's art
by Leon Edel ... [et al.] ; ed ...
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Telling lives, the biographer's art
[Paperback ed.].
by Leon Edel ... [et al.] ; edited by Marc Pachter.

Published 1985 by University of Pennsylvania Press in Philadelphia .
Written in English.

Table of Contents

The biographer himself / Marc Patcher
The figure under the carpet / Leon Edel
The naked self and other problems / Justin Kaplan
Minor lives / Geoffrey Wolff
The self as history / Alfred Kazin
Angles of vision / Doris Kearns
Stepping over cockleburs / Theodore Rosengarten
Biography as a prism of history / Barbara E. Tuchman.

Edition Notes

Originally published: Washington : New Republic Books, 1979 ; paperback edition published in 1981.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
 808/.06692021
Library of Congress
 CT21 .T44 1981

The Physical Object

Pagination
 151 p. ;
Number of pages
 151

ID Numbers

Open Library
 OL20737956M
ISBN 10
 0812211189
OCLC/WorldCat
 7572157
Library Thing
 2663216
Goodreads
 2027550

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April 30, 2011 Edited by OCLC Bot Added OCLC numbers.
August 18, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
April 16, 2010 Edited by bgimpertBot Added goodreads ID.
October 29, 2008 Created by ImportBot Initial record created, from University of Toronto MARC record.