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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 1998

Pages: 191-203

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349265503

Full citation:

John Worthen, "The biographer and perspective", in: Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Abstract

There is nothing like a biographer for enjoying the destruction of orthodoxy. Scratch a biographer and you find an iconoclast. "People have always worshipped this icon. How absurd!" says the biographer. "The real truth, of course, is that it never was an icon: it was a hollow sepulchre." And so we biographers present the world with a new, radical icon.

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 1998

Pages: 191-203

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349265503

Full citation:

John Worthen, "The biographer and perspective", in: Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998