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Life writing : essays on autobiography, biography and literature
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Life writing : essays on autobiography, biography and literature

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In search of Peter Quennell : redefining the self in The biographer's moustache / Andrew James
Pictures and places : enclaves of illusion in the life-writings of Elizabeth Bowen and Annabel Goff / Deirdre O'Byrne
Of skunks and doorknobs : Robert Lowell and 'The business of direct experience' : Tim Hancock
Projections of the inner 'I' : Anthony Powell, George Orwell and the personal myth / D.J. Taylor
Goldsmith and the art of indirect autobiography / Graham Gargett
Obstacles confronting the literary biographer / Dale Salwak
Hartley Coleridge and the art of elf-effacement / Andrew Keanie
'A horse my show his good intent' : opinionated Protestant equines from Morocco to Black Beauty / Kevin De Ornellas
Literary biography : the elephant in the academic sitting room / Richard Bradford
Reflections on the timing of Juan Goytisolo's autobiographies / Stanley Black
Wild realism : the fresh air of the real or the changing face of the European novel / Alexis Grohmann
Autofiction : a brief history of a neologism / E.H. Jones
Sick diarists and private writers of the seventeenth century / David Thorley
Trans-genre confusion : what does autobiography think it is? / Claire Lynch
The art of losing : the place of death in writer's memoirs / Timothy C. Baker
'The contrived innocence of the surface' : representing childhood memory in recent British autobiography / Nicola King
The relics of St David Wojnarowicz : the autobiography of a mythmaker / Richard Maguire
Reflections on life and writing / Alan Sillitoe
A writer's work and life / Ruth Fainlight
Richard Bradford interviews Martin Amis.

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Life writing : essays on autobiography, biography and literature. ISBN 9780230202528. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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