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New directions in biography : essays

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.

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Additional Authors
  • Auty, Phyllis.
  • Friedson, Anthony M.
  • University of Hawaii at Manoa.
  • International Symposium on Biography (1981 : Honolulu, Hawaii)
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
OCLC
  • ocm07876052
  • SCSB-9672287
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library