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050 00 $aCT22$b.H36 2008
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100 1 $aHamilton, Nigel.
245 10 $aHow to do biography :$ba primer /$cNigel Hamilton.
260 $aCambridge :$bHarvard University Press,$c2008.
300 $aviii, 379 p. ;$c19 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [362]-367) and index.
505 0 $aThe task of biography -- What is your agenda? -- Defining your audience -- Researching your subject -- The shape of a life -- The starting point -- Birthing your subject -- Childhood and youth -- Love stories -- Life's work -- The twilight years -- Ending your story -- Autobiography and memoirs -- Memoir -- Truth--and its consequences -- The afterlife.
520 $aAn introduction to writing a biography that discusses personal motivation, beginnings and endings, the difference between autobiography and memoir, ethical and legal issues, and other related topics.
650 0 $aBiography as a literary form.
650 0 $aBiography$xResearch$xMethodology.
650 0 $aAutobiography$xAuthorship.
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