New directions in biography : essays

Author(s)

• Auty, Phyllis
• Friedson, Anthony M.
• University of Hawaii at Manoa
• International Symposium on Biography (1981 : Honolulu, Hawaii)

Bibliographic Information

New directions in biography : essays

by Phyllis Auty ... [et al.] ; edited, and with a foreword by Anthony M. Friedson

（A biography monograph）

Published for the Biographical Research Center by the University Press of Hawaii, c1981

• pbk.

Note

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BA04386923
• ISBN:
  • 0824807839
• LCCN: 81016064
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Honolulu, Hawaii]
• Pages/Volumes: xxiv, 103 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : CT21
  • DC19 : 808/.06692
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Biography (as a literary form) -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04386978