The 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.
How to do biography : a primer by Nigel Hamilton. ISBN 9780674027961. Published by Harvard University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.