
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 1998
Pages: 191-203
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349265503
Full citation:
, "The biographer and perspective", in: Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998


The biographer and perspective
pp. 191-203
in: Warwick Gould, Thomas F. Staley (eds), Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998Abstract
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:
, "The biographer and perspective", in: Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998