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
Summary
Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer's craft
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-367) and index
