Research Catalog

Title

New directions in biography : essays / by Phyllis Auty ... [et al.] ; edited, and with a foreword by Anthony M. Friedson.

Publication

[Honolulu, Hawaii] : Published for the Biographical Research Center by the University Press of Hawaii, c1981.

Details

Additional Authors

• Auty, Phyllis.
• Friedson, Anthony M.
• International Symposium on Biography (1981 : Honolulu, Hawaii) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81109644
• University of Hawaii at Manoa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80142923

Description

xxiv, 103 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

A Biography monograph

Subject

Biography as a literary form > Congresses

Note

• Edited papers presented at the International Symposium on Biography, organized by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1981.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Keynote address: biography and the science of man / Leon Edel -- Literary and historical biography / Michael Holroyd -- Problems of writing a biography of a communist leader / Phyllis Auty -- Group biography: challenges and methods / Margot Peters -- Biography: the Black South African connection / N.C. Manganyi -- Five types of contemporary French biography / Gabriel Merle -- The curious relationship between biography and autobiography in Japan / Shoichi Saeki.

ISBN

0824807839 (pbk.)

LCCN

81016064