Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

xv, 317 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents : 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 may 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.

English prose literature -- History and criticism.

American prose literature -- History and criticism.

Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.

Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.

Authors -- Biography -- History and criticism.

Autobiography.

Biography as a literary form.

Bradford, Richard, 1957-

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